GAD5204 Playful Experience DesignBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs LOGISTICS (TURKISH)General Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
LOGISTICS (TURKISH)
Associate TR-NQF-HE: Level 5 QF-EHEA: Short Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 5

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GAD5204 Playful Experience Design Fall
3 0 3 8
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Associate (Short Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÜVEN ÇATAK
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course will be focusing on integrating game elements into everyday life and experience design applications by presenting playful experiences to the users, while suggesting a hybrid interactive analysis through including digital and analogue tools inspecting player motivations as well as the place of games in contemporary art scene.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who have succeeded in this course
1) Understand the fundementals of game and play
2) Define, measure and evaluate the different metrics and key performance indicators for applications that provide playful experience across a range of dimensions
3) Design, develop, and evaluate a playful interaction concept project for a real-world case
4) Percieve fundemental methods and theory related to player experience
5) Understand game design and game studies, as well as user experience perspectives for interaction design, and human computer interaction
6) Apply behaviour analysis via playful interaction
7) Form relation between game elements and personal motivations for gamification projects

Course Content

In order to understand how game works and how the concept of play is and can be integrated to our lives, students must understand the fundementals of game experience approaches, business reflections and applications of game design. The course will give a hands-on approach to play theory, and an academic understanding of the practice of playful experience design.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Too much fun: Toys as social problems and the interpretation of culture. Best, Joel. 1998 The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau (1974)
Csikszentmihalyi, M., Beyond Boredom and Anxiety. The Experience of Play in Work and Games,1975 (Jossey-Bass Publishers).
References: Why We Play Games: Four Keys to More Emotion Without Story. Lazzaro, N. 2004

Evaluation System

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Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) To have knowledge about logistics operations and the basic legislation
2) To have knowledge about the politics, corporations and the developments in logistics.
3) To have knowledge about the economical life and the basic features of the enterprises that take place in logistics sector.
4) To have knowledge about the documents that are used in logistics and how to prepare them.
5) To have knowledge about the new marketing and sales techniques and the principles of opening to new markets.
6) To have knowledge and consciousness about the job security, worker health and environment protection in logistics sector.
7) To have knowledge and consciousness about the basic legal attainments, social responsibility, ethics and social security rights in logistics.
8) To be involved in communication network in logistics sector and follow the developments. 2
9) To have the ability to comment and evaluate the classical and current theories by taking into account the developments in logistics and supply chain areas.
10) To have the basic knowledge about foreign trade and customs legislation.
11) To have knowledge about relationship between foreign trade and logistics management.
12) To have basic knowledge in at least one foreign language.
13) He/she can use information and communication tecnologies that necessary for their area, follows technological change and applies new technologies to business system.