| 1. | Course Title | Advanced Applications for Mobile Devices | |||||||||||
| 2. | Code | 4ФЕИТ10015 | |||||||||||
| 3. | Study program | 8-KM-INN, 11-IBS, 12-KIT, 20-IMSA | |||||||||||
| 4. | Organizer of the study program (unit, institute, department) | Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies | |||||||||||
| 5. | Degree (first, second, third cycle) | Second cycle | |||||||||||
| 6. | Academic year/semester | I/1 | 7. | Number of ECTS credits | 6.00 | ||||||||
| 8. | Lecturer | Dr Pero Latkoski, Dr Vladimir Atanasovski | |||||||||||
| 9. | Course Prerequisites | ||||||||||||
| 10. | Course Goals (acquired competencies):
Development of complex applications for complex ICT systems. Complete understanding of the development cycle of a modern ICT application. |
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| 11. | Course Syllabus:
User experience and user interface (UX/UI). Development environments for advanced UX/UI solutions. Design of an advanced UI. Operation with resource limited devices. Scalability. Advantages and disadvantages of specific and platform independent development systems. Multimedia management. Databases. Networking and dealing with network failures. Integration of data sources in an integrated application (e.g. sensor data). Human Computer Interface (HCI). Interface ergonomics. Usability. Application testing. |
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| 12. | Learning methods:
Lectures, independent work on project tasks and seminar works, visit of relevant ICT companies, invited lectures by industry experts |
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| 13. | Total number of course hours | 180 | |||||||||||
| 14. | Distribution of course hours | 3 + 3 | |||||||||||
| 15. | Forms of teaching | 15.1 | Lectures-theoretical teaching | 45 hours | |||||||||
| 15.2 | Exercises (laboratory, practice classes), seminars, teamwork | 45 hours | |||||||||||
| 16. | Other course activities | 16.1 | Projects, seminar papers | 30 hours | |||||||||
| 16.2 | Individual tasks | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 16.3 | Homework and self-learning | 30 hours | |||||||||||
| 17. | Grading | ||||||||||||
| 17.1 | Exams | 30 points | |||||||||||
| 17.2 | Seminar work/project (presentation: written and oral) | 50 points | |||||||||||
| 17.3. | Activity and participation | 20 points | |||||||||||
| 17.4. | Final exam | 0 points | |||||||||||
| 18. | Grading criteria (points) | up to 50 points | 5 (five) (F) | ||||||||||
| from 51 to 60 points | 6 (six) (E) | ||||||||||||
| from 61 to 70 points | 7 (seven) (D) | ||||||||||||
| from 71 to 80 points | 8 (eight) (C) | ||||||||||||
| from 81 to 90 points | 9 (nine) (B) | ||||||||||||
| from 91 to 100 points | 10 (ten) (A) | ||||||||||||
| 19. | Conditions for acquiring teacher’s signature and for taking final exam | none | |||||||||||
| 20. | Forms of assessment | through a term paper/project and test | |||||||||||
| 21. | Language | Macedonian and English | |||||||||||
| 22. | Method of monitoring of teaching quality | Internal evaluations and polls | |||||||||||
| 23. | Literature | ||||||||||||
| 23.1. | Required Literature | ||||||||||||
| No. | Author | Title | Publisher | Year | |||||||||
| 1. | Benjamin Bahr | Prototyping of User Interfaces for Mobile Applications | Springer | 2017 | |||||||||
| 2. | Jaime Levy | UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want | O’Reilly Media | 2015 | |||||||||
| 3. | Adrian Mendoza | Mobile User Experience: Patterns to Make Sense of it All | Morgan Kaufmann | 2015 | |||||||||
