PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
VCD3115	Principles of Interaction Design	Spring Fall	2	2	3	5

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İPEK TORUN
Course Lecturer(s):	Instructor SERKAN ŞİMŞEK Prof. Dr. HASAN KEMAL SUHER
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	Bu dersin amacı farklı içeriği biraraya getiren çoklu ortam alanını tanıtmaktır. Ders ayrıca çoklu ortam teorisi ile birlikte tekst, ses, hareketli ve durağan görsellerle etkileşimli içeriği yönetebilme üzerine yoğunlaşır.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Define the interaction fundamantals of multimedia .
2) Recognizing the necessary theoritical and historical knowledge needed to develop an understanding of multimedia for academical and critical aspects.
3) Display the skills for the indevidual steps of multimedia design process.
4) Recognize usability andexperience concepts of multimedia design.
5) Define the principles of multimedia design.
6) Display solutions to balance the aesthetics and functionality issues in multimedia design.
7) Define the relationship between concept and product to develop an integrated modality.
8) Display skills for managing a project to integrate the theory and the practice.
9) Display skills for time management in a multimedia project.

Course Content

The main objective of this course is to introduce the area of multimedia which is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. The course also focuses on the theory of multimedia and managing the variable content that is the combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.
Multimedia is media and content that utilizes a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only utilize traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to the course, a review of the workflow; handing in syllabus and documents.	HW: Research on multimedia and interaction
2)	What is Multimedia? Where it is found? What is interaction? Class Discussion	HW: Interactive instrument design.
3)	Scenario and paper prototypeing. Examples. Interactive instrument design homework critique.	Interactive instrument design homework redo
4)	Scenario and paper prototyping. Examples. Scenario homework critique HW: Paper prototyping Scenario homework redo	HW: Paper prototyping Scenario homework redo
5)	Information Architecture: Linear, hierarchical ve network structures Paper prototyping homework critique	HW: Information Architecture Paper prototyping redo
6)	Flowcharts Information Architecture homework critique	HW: Flowchart Information Architecture homework redo Reading: Flowcharts (ISO 14915-2 sec 3,5 & 6)
7)	Apple Human Interface Guidelines Flowchart homework critique	HW: Navigation tool design 1 Flowchart homework redo Reading: Apple Interface Guideline
8)	Apple Human Interface Guidelines Navigation tool design 1 homework critique	HW: Navigation tool design 2 Navigation tool design 1 homework redo
9)	Navigation tool design 2 homework critique Introduction to final project	HW: Graphic Interface Design Navigation tool design 2 homework redo Reading : Software Branding (Microsoft Windows Vista Software Branding) Information technology, User system interfaces and symbols, Icon symbols and functions (ISO 11581-1)
10)	Final Project: Scenario Graphic Interface Design critique	HW: Graphic Interface Design homework redo
11)	Final Project: Paper prototyping and flowchart
12)	Final Project: Graphic Interface
13)	Final Project: Graphic Interface
14)	Final Project: Overall critique

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	• Microsoft Windows Vista Software Branding • Iphone Human Interface Guidelines • IPTV Standards (BBC Standards) • Apple Interface Guideline • Flowcharts (ISO 14915-2 sec 3,5 & 6) • Cognitive Perception (ISO 14915-3 D) • Information technology - User system interfaces and symbols - Icon symbols and functions (ISO 11581-1)
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 20
Homework Assignments	8	% 40
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	56
Study Hours Out of Class	14	42
Homework Assignments	8	32
Final	1	4
Total Workload		134

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Knowledge of photographic and video media and ability to use basic, intermediate and advanced techniques of these media.
2)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate theories, concepts and uses of photography and video.
3)	Ability to employ theoretical knowledge in the areas of the use of photography and video.
4)	Familiarity with and ability to review the historical literature in theoretical and practical studies in photography and video.
5)	Ability in problem solving in relation to projects in photography and video.
6)	Ability to generate innovative responses to particular and novel requirements in photography and video.
7)	Understanding and appreciation of the roles and potentials of the image across visual culture
8)	Ability to communicate distinctively by means of photographic and video images.
9)	Experience of image post-production processes and ability to develop creative outcomes through this knowledge.
10)	Knowledge of and ability to participate in the processes of production, distribution and use of photography and video in the media.
11)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate global, regional and local problematics in visual culture.
12)	Knowledge of and ability to make a significant contribution to the goals of public communication.
13)	Enhancing creativity via interdisciplinary methods to develop skills for realizing projects.
14)	Gaining general knowledge about the points of intersection of communication, art and technology.