Vasiliki Mylonopoulou, PhD

Design for Diversity & Inclusion
1 credit course for Ph.D. and Master's students of the University of Oulu.

If you are working with designing, building, or studying technology and you are interested in having an introduction to diversity and inclusion in the context of designing technology then this course is for you. No prior knowledge of the design process is needed.

Learning outcomes

After the end of the course, the learners will be able to

1. Understand and apply the basics of the design process based on Human-computer interaction and interaction design fields in relation to Person-Centric Healthcare.

2. Understand and reflect on basic concepts of inclusive design, e.g. ways people are diverse, preconceptions, discrimination, exclusion, and consequences of exclusion in design in the physical and digitalized world – e.g., discrimination by AI

3. Recognize inclusive designs and the difference to universal design.

4. Understand and reflect on inclusive design as an inherent part of the design process - instead of a good to have feature.

5. Get familiar with, reflect on, and apply methods that increase empathy in design toward people different from the designer

   • Reflect on the limitations of the methods

   • Apply them in the design context of the digital technology

   • Experience how it is to design for people’s diversity.

Pre-course

For the course to be meaningful:

• Write down a list/bullet points of questions, thoughts, and/or comments that came up to you when reflecting on the material (download the material here).  - will be finalized by the 10th of September

• You can bring and discuss them in the related parts

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Who can participate

The course is designed for Ph.D. students/researchers, however, master’s students, interested in the subject, can also participate.

• We can accept 20 people.

• You can register at https://forms.office.com/r/9Ag8nV84gd 

• Registration is not obligatory but registered people are prioritized and accepted on a first come first serve basis.

More questions? Contact me (Vasiliki) at vasiliki.mylonopoulou@ait.gu.se

For the 1 credit

For those who want to take the credit

1. Reflect on the 3 most important things you learned in this course. You can use the pre-course assignment to structure your reflection. What did you learn? Did you change your mind on something? Why this learning was important to you? (max 700 words)

2. In addition, answer these questions (max 700 words)

   1. How do you perceive diversity? Now in relation to before the course. Is there any difference? Why there is/isn’t a difference? 

   2. How do you perceive disability? You can base your answer on the different definitions. Is it some definition you agree with more than others or maybe a combination of them? You can take a look here if needed: https://www.disabled-world.com/definitions/disability-models.php