The overall goal of this seminar is to develop a deeper critical understanding of issues related to Media Informatics. Examples could be to:

- understand and critically discuss different approaches to media informatics design

- understand the key debates within the relevant academic communities about different approaches

- identify the strengths, weaknesses and theoretical alignments of different approaches

- be able to make principled choices matching methods and theories and approaches to contexts.

A focus area for 2019SS will be human-centred perspectives of robots and older care, or youth and self care. The choice of exact focus will be up to the student. Other topic options may also be discussed.

ECTS Breakdown (estimate - we will discuss and agree this)

Briefing and presentation topics: 2 hours
Lectures / Discussions: 8 hours
Literature search, group / individual topic identification: 15 hours
Create a seminar paper: 48 hours
Presentation of results / feedback: 2 hours
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Total: 75 hours (3 credits)

Please consider the plagiarism guidelines of TU Wien when writing your seminar paper: Directive concerning the handling of plagiarism (PDF)

Seminar paper & presentation