Archive for the ‘student outreach’ Category
Student Outreach: Graduate Students at University of Southern Denmark (SDU) take Home Dash for a Spin
An international group of 4 students at University of Southern Denmark’s Mads Clausen Institute (MCI) are currently working on a semester project in cooperation with Mozilla Labs. The project is central to the HCI / Design Studies course within the two-year, studio-based IT Product Design graduate program. Course Description The course HCI / Design Studies, [...]
Knight-Mozilla Initiative: ‘Hacking the Future of Journalism’ at University of Dundee (fuel provided by Irn Bru!)
Hosted by Product Design Dundee — in collaboration with Mozilla, Knight Foundation & Hack/Hackers Edinburgh. Do you have ideas for how news and journalism can be edgier, cooler, and more interactive online? Are you a web developer, designer or just a news junkie with a hankering to hack? Why not head to the University of [...]
Student Outreach: Projects from HCI Students at A.I. Cuza University (Iasi, Romania) Kick-Off & Gather Speed!
Over 70 students have enrolled for the HCI discipline within the Master on Software Engineering and Master of Computational Linguistics course at the A.I. Cuza University. Led by Dr. Sabin Buraga, the teams of students are tackling solutions from a list of HCI projects is focused on several topics of interest as proposed by the [...]
Student Outreach: Franco Papeschi (Web Foundation) — Visits, Listens & Mentors ~ Ashesi HCI students
A guest post by, Franco Papeschi… As part of my job at the Web Foundation – I am quite often working in Accra (Ghana) – helping with the creation of a solid community of entrepreneurs, developers, designers passionate about mobile as part of Mobile Web Ghana. For this reason, I couldn’t be happier when I’ve [...]
Student Outreach: Bauhaus – Open Interaction Design Class of 2011 Wrap-Up
A guest post by, Jan Dittrich – the course co-ordinator of the ‘Designing for Action’ course in the Media Art and Design BFA program at Bauhaus University. Phewww! After a busy term of learning, experimenting and research the ‘Designing for Action‘ class at the Bauhaus University has recently wrapped up! 15 students dealt with Interaction [...]
Student Outreach: Software Engineering students at the University of Sussex are visited by Mozilla WebQA
Martin Berger, a lecturer at the University of Sussex recently invited Mozilla, to talk to his group of Software Engineering students. This was a unique opportunity for the 100 odd students to get away from all the theory — and hear first hand about some practical examples within industry. The Talk — ‘Test Automation – [...]
Student Outreach: Masters of Interactive Multimedia students from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) design a rich hybrid application
Students under the leadership of Dr Linda Leung, Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney, Institute for Interactive Media and Learning – are presently undertaking their major Masters project in conjunction with Mozilla Labs. Background The students (Merissa Santoso, Ashleigh Elise Sterzenbach, Kate Scott, Fendy Susanto) will be working on designing and developing an [...]
Student Outreach: Ashesi University College announce a semester of Open Design projects
Students at Ashesi University College (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. All picture credits: Ebenezer Gwumah Buckman About the course The HCI course, which is taught by Dr Astrid Twenebowa Larssen, is a requirement for [...]
Design Jam London #2: Yet another 50 UX’ers. Same 9 hours. 1 Brand new challenge.
To learn more about what Design Jams are and where they’ve come from, read more on the Design Jams wiki. A guest post by local London Design Jam champions, Joe Lanman, Franco Papeschi, Desigan Chinniah & Johanna Kollmann. The all-new and improved Design Jam London 2 took place on Saturday, 26th of February 2011, with [...]
Student Outreach: Eric Reiss & Søren Muus (FatDUX) visit the Bauhaus
A guest post by, Jan Dittrich – the course co-ordinator of the ‘Designing for Action’ course in the Media Art and Design BFA program at Bauhaus University. Exciting news A few weeks back, Prof. Jens Geelhaar and I – were super excited to have Mozilla Labs inform us that Eric Reiss, Cennydd Bowles, and James [...]
