Designing a Problem-oriented, Multi-disciplinary Curriculum: Integrating Human Sciences and Exact Sciences

This paper discusses the design of a curriculum with its main focus on human-oriented scientific knowledge and how this can be exploited to develop support for humans in their day-to-day environment by means of advanced devices. The aim was to offer a study path for those students with exact talents with an interest mainly in human functioning and society. The curriculum was designed from a problem-oriented perspective in relation to societal problem areas. From human-oriented disciplines, scientific knowledge for human functioning in such problem areas was obtained. Computational modelling for such human processes plays a central role. Elements from Ambient Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and Informatics are included for design of support systems.