My first question on this platform. Well here it goes: I am restructuring my Experience Design courses for 1st and 2nd year bachelor students of Security Technology and I would really appreciate your input. I've already renamed the course "Design for Security", because it seems to convey the goal of the course better.
So I want to use methods en techniques from the design discipline to create more secure/safe environments. Information security is not what the program is focused on. Main focus is to prevent and detect man made catastrophes and criminal behaviour, it is has gotten momentum after the 9/11 attacks. Students are going to work within the police, army, customs and other security technology consultancy or supplies companies. 1st year Don Norman's recent essay in Interactions, http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/when_security_gets_in_the_way.html would be the best description of what I want to accomplish in the first year. Mixing usability and user centered design with developing a security system. Get to know the user needs and goals in the security domain in order to achieve the highest possible acceptance of a security system. 2nd year Would be more about the funky stuff. I would like to address a coherent selection of the following aspects: - using design to increase/decrease perceived security - using design to make decisions more rational (less or more risk aversive, less cognitively biased) - using design to influence (persuade) people to act more moral. I've heard of an example that Yo Kaminaga, head of the design department of the RATP (Parisian Metro), used design to decrease (the costs of) vandalism and petty crime. Those kind of examples would be very nice to have in more detail. I have 4 - 6 months to work things out in concrete case studies and teaching materials. So I hope some IxDA-ers can help me out offering thoughts and examples. Thanks a lot! ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
