My strengths lie in my programming skills and my abillity to solve problems. I am able to to pick up new skills and learn new techniques quickly. As I studied Allgemeine Informatik at the HFU I started to get interested in game deveolpment which is inherently intertwined with the field of interaction design. A prototyp of a game I created recently (as part of the course PRIMA held by Professor Jirka Dell´Oro-Friedl, created with FUDGE) can be played here (use W A S D, Space and ESC to controll. F11 for fullscreen. Can only be played on desktop. Works in Chrome).
My shortcomings in the context of this course are probably that while I did had courses focused on creating UIs, these courses didn't really focus on design principles and psychological aspects of interaction design but rather just on devolpment/implementation, which is why im lacking in these areas.
I hope I can improve my skills in the underlying design principles of interaction design. Im espacially interested in the psychological aspects of interaction design.
The main concern for me is my lacking prior knowledge in this field. Most likely I will have to spend some extra time on researching. Im also not particularly fond of distance learning.