Data Driven Design Evaluations

The goal of this course is to enable students to evaluate designs using data driven methods and tools. This is of particular importance for critical design decisions. The students will learn the underlying methodological and mathematical principles, such as design epistemology, experimental design, statistics, and data communication. The course will use real world design problems as the basis for learning how to perform quantitative evaluations. The students will learn how to setup an experiment, collect data, choose statistical methods and how to communicate the results to the stake holders. The students will learn how to use software tools for data collection, statistical analysis and data visualisation to support their evaluation process.