This course is centered around developing user-centric software solutions for societal benefit. Students will create user-centric software using target population research, building personas, software development, and evaluation of a software solution. The focus will be on creating an inclusive software solution for two slices of the population (one marginalized by current software, and one that is not). The chosen project will address one or multiple of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Topics include persona lifecycle, prototyping (both low and high fidelity), software engineering methodologies, Unified Modeling Language (UML), object-oriented design patterns, methods for evaluating the usability and inclusiveness of software solutions, and an introduction to empirical software engineering.
NOT OFFERED 2024-2025
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 0.5)