{"id":6147,"date":"2011-03-16T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/5.903"},"modified":"2011-03-16T08:53:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-16T15:53:52","slug":"student-outreach-ashesi-university-college-announce-a-semester-of-open-design-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/labs\/2011\/03\/student-outreach-ashesi-university-college-announce-a-semester-of-open-design-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Outreach: Ashesi University College announce a semester of Open Design projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Ashesi<\/a><\/p>\n

Students at Ashesi University College<\/a> (Accra, Ghana) have embarked on semester long Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) projects – in collaboration with Mozilla Labs as part of the Concept Series, Student Outreach channel<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

All picture credits: Ebenezer Gwumah Buckman<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"The

Ashesi HCI Class \/ Picture credit: Ebenezer Gwumah Buckman<\/p><\/div>\n

About the course<\/h2>\n

The HCI course, which is taught by Dr Astrid Twenebowa Larssen<\/a>, is a requirement for all third year Computer Science students. <\/p>\n

The semester project is one of three main assessments for the students. This semester a class of 27 students will be introduced to the basics of HCI, usability and user-centered methods for developing usable and useful technology. <\/p>\n

The HCI and Interaction Design (IxD) community in Ghana is in its infancy, so the Mozilla Labs collaboration provide the students with an opportunity to practice their developing skills on real-world applications and products as well as increase their interaction with and exposure to the UX industry.<\/p>\n

Overall, the aim of the course is to develop the students\u2019 skills and abilities in critiquing, analyzing, evaluating and designing technology.<\/p>\n

The project topics<\/h2>\n

A variety of project topics have been proposed to the students by various Mozilla<\/a> product owners and engineers.<\/p>\n

The chosen topics for 2011<\/a> were introduced to the students via brief video intros, a slide presentations as well as relevant links of resources living online. <\/p>\n

Below is a brief description of each chosen topic, or check out the full set of detailed 2011 topics<\/a>:<\/p>\n