User based Welfare TechnologyLaajuus (3 cr)

Objective

The student - is able to describe and evaluate the potential of welfare technology to maintain wellbeing and promote health. - is able to find out the needs of different user groups and user experiences for different welfare technology solutions. - knows methods of developing welfare technologies for the needs of different user groups. - knows the principles of ethics in the user context of welfare technologies. - knows and understands the importance of data protection in the context of welfare technologies.

Content

- maintaining well-being and promoting health as concepts - key concepts and content in welfare technologies - the potential of technology in maintaining well-being and health - the core content and concepts of user-oriented design - methods to address users' needs - methods for the joint development of need-based and user-oriented technologies - ethics and user data protection in the context of welfare technology

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

The student - is able to describe and explain the key concepts, contents and methods of welfare technologies and user-oriented design - is able to describe methods to identify user needs and is able to co-develop need-based and user-oriented technologies and has tried some of these - does not actively discuss ethical and data protection issues in the context of welfare technologies

Assessment criteria, good (3)

The student - is able to correctly apply key concepts of welfare technologies and user-centered design and to choose methods for different situations in the development process - is able to use methods to identify user demands and is able to co-develop technologies - contributes to the discussion on ethical and data protection issues in the context of welfare technologies

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

The student - is able to apply and combine methods to identify user demands and is able co-develop need-based and user-driven technologies - is able to analyze, document and critically evaluate study results - is able to contribute constructively to the ethical and data protection discussion in the context of welfare technology and is able to ground their points of view