In the 2015 academic year, the Interaction Design Course was established within the Master’s Program of Information Science (Doctoral Program, First Stage). Applicants may choose this course at the time of admission.
In this course, project-based exercise subjects—Interaction Design I and II—are designated as required electives. In these exercises, students form teams with peers from different disciplines such as design studies. Through activities including field observation and needs discovery, ideation methods, physical computing as a contemporary sketching approach, and digital fabrication as a prototyping technique, students gain hands-on experience in creating realistic and innovative solutions, as well as new social frameworks, in response to given themes.
Due to limitations in the exercise environment, it may not be possible to accommodate all applicants if there are many students wishing to enroll in the course.