Abstract

Information design education is one of the noteworthy fields of the future, as it ensures students' understanding of the usability of information and artifacts. To facilitate the proper understanding of the usability and the inconvenience of artifacts, we developed an information design education as a part of a more general information education curriculum at a college. I assigned students to take photos of unusable tools encountered in daily life with camera-equipped mobile phones, and the students presented their findings. Considering the students' presentations and the questionnaire conducted during class, I suggest that this teaching practice has facilitated the awareness of unusable artifacts, the consideration of alternative ideas, and critical thinking about everyday things.

Citation

Ozawa, S. (2006). A Trial of the Practical Usage of Camera Phones in Information Design Education. In T. Reeves & S. Yamashita (Eds.), Proceedings of E-Learn 2006--World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (pp. 255-260). Honolulu, Hawaii, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 5, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/23694/.

© 2006 Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE)

Keywords

• camera
• Students