Seminar course exploring the interactions between people and products on their many levels and in their multifaceted complexity. Product perception, attitudes, meaning, semiotics, and psycho-social processes. Awareness of frameworks and concepts for understanding the interaction between people and products from industrial design, psychology, sociology, anthropology, ethology, and other disciplines. Application of such frameworks, concepts, and methods to the design process.
This course may not be repeated for credit.

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