DEVICE design award @SIDeR 2013

To improve the quality of design for vulnerable generations, the EU funded project DEVICE includes the creation of a design award addressed to design students within its main objectives. As a response to this, this spring in April the best interaction design students will be selected to win the DEVICE design award during the SIDER’13 conference that will take place in Aarhus, Denmark.

The most relevant works- papers, posters and demos - focused on the DEVICE user groups – children and/or elderly – will be judged in terms of level of innovation, human centered approach, social relevance, design methodology and quality.

In addition to this, also the degree of empowerment of society by means of technology, which is the main theme of the conference, will be taken into account. The winner will be awarded with a diploma and a NEXUS 7 tablet.

More information can be found here.

DEVICE – DEsign for Vulnerable generatIons: Children and Elderly

DEVICE is an Erasmus Multilateral Projects funded by the European Commission within the Lifelong Learning Program.

DEVICE was launched on the 1st of October 2011 in response to a need recognized by the European Commission to help companiesand academic research centres to focus on vulnerable generations from hardware to software, usability and user-centred design.

The project aspires to bridge traditional industrial design programs with ergonomics, usability concepts and user experience approaches with a specific focus on vulnerable generations.

It intends to address the need to modernize and develop educational programs with a specific focus on vulnerable generations and, ultimately, being a milestone towards the modernization of design education.