IMT2551 - Mobile Systems Fundamentals

Hi, and welcome to this course in Mobile Fundamentals for the spring of 2012.

The key goal for this course is to help you build skills and competences related to the design of web-based content for small screens, and to use smartphones to collect and process data. We will achieve this goal through a series of lectures, some individual work and a group project, and will end the course with a written exam.

Please see the formal course description for the formal course description.

Currently, this course is a second year spring course offered to our students taking the Bachelor of Media Technology (BMT).

Our course offerings related to mobile technology are currently:

1. IMT2551 Mobile Systems Fundamentals, 5 ECTS
2. IMT3671 Mobile System Project, 5 ECTS
3. IMT3661 Mobile System Programming, 5 ECTS

Course plan for the spring of 2012 listed by week number

Material to read apart from the book on web app design will be linked in the lecture pdfs below. Please that this is a tentative course plan that may be adjusted (in terms of topics) as we progress.

All lectures takes place on mondays at 09.00-11.45 in room A-110. Project weeks will have no lectures. Guidance in office A-224AB.

• Week 01 January 2 No lectures or activities
• Week 02 January 9 Introduction - Mobile Systems Fundamentals (Kjell Are Refsvik)
• Week 03 January 16 General background on mobile devices and solutions including context awareness (Kjell Are Refsvik)
• Week 04 January 23 Guest lecture. TBA
• Week 05 January 30 Being a professional developer of mobile software (Audun Vaaler)
• Week 06 February 6 HTML5 and CSS3 for mobile developers (Kjell Are Refsvik)
• Week 07 February 13 JavaScript and Javascript frameworks for mobile web/app developers (Jayson Mackie)
• Week 08 February 20 Project 1: Designing and building a mobile webpage/webapp. Project description can be found here.
• Week 09 February 27 Project 1: Guidance. Seek me out in my office, by email or skype for guidance.
• Week 10 March 5 Project 1: Designing and building a mobile webpage/webapp
• Week 11 March 12 Project 1: Designing and building a mobile webpage/webapp
• Week 12 March 19 Project 1: Designing and building a mobile webpage/webapp. Delivery as a report in pdf in Fronter by Friday March 23 before 11:59AM.
• Week 13 March 26 Accessibility and mobile devices (Kjell Are Refsvik). Lecture cancelled due to medical reasons, but the exercise can be found in what was planned to be the the lecture notes.
• Week 14 April 2 Easter holiday
• Week 15 April 9 Easter holiday
• Week 16 April 16 Project 2: Mobile accessibility
• Week 17 April 23 Project 2: Guidance
• Week 18 April 30 Project 2: Mobile accessibility
• Week 19 May 7 Project 2: Mobile accessibility. Delivery as a report in pdf in Fronter by Friday May 11 before 11:59AM.
• Week 20 May 14 Guest lecture. TBA
• Week 21 May 21 -
• Week 22 May 28 -
• Week 23 June 8 Exam (written, 3 hours from 09.00-12.00). Room number will be announced in StudWeb.