Take This Online Course On Mobile Application Experiences

Introduction to the mobile application is a free online course offered by MITx. This course talks about the mobile application from research to design, usability, implementation, and field evaluation.

By Divya

Updated: Tuesday, July 28, 2026, 1:42 [IST]

Introduction to the mobile application is a free online course offered by MITx, this course helps you to learn, create a novel mobile application from research to design, usability, implementation, and field evaluation.

Interested candidates can enroll for this course on or before 7, March 2017.

About mobile application course?

How do you design a mobile app that truly changes people's lives?
How can you understand how a new service is being used, both quantitatively and qualitatively?
How can you use all of the rich sensing and I/O capabilities of mobile devices to create experiences that go far beyond what's possible on a traditional computer?
Mobile devices are changing the ways that we interact with each other and information in the world.
This course will take you from a domain of interest, through generative research, design, usability, implementation and field evaluation of a novel mobile experience.
And finish the course with a working, field-tested application suitable for release in the app store as well as a deep understanding of human interaction with mobile devices and services.

What will you learn from mobile application course?

To understand the entire HCI design process, as applied to mobile applications.
To construct a novel mobile application and assess its use in daily life for two weeks.
To prepare and evaluate three different types of HCI research studies (generative, usability, and field studies), related to the topic of your application.
To identify and discuss papers from the CHI research community and design and compose your own CHI-style paper.