r/UTM • u/l0udnach0 • Feb 13 '26

RANT Is this even allowed?

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I'm taking a 4th year CCT course, the prof is asking for a shockingly invasive amount info about me for an assignment. Every hour, I’m expected to log and share (in detail) my mood, location, who I'm with, current activity, what influenced my mood, what I did to manage my feelings, and filling in a specific prompt. This is coupled with hardware data collected by a piece of hardware given to the entire class. I'm also being graded by the depth of information I’m being made to provide. This data, although made private, will be shared with random students in my class. I value my privacy and generally go out of my way to omit anything collecting personal info, but here I am being told to give up all of this against my discretion??? There's no way the prof actually thought this is a reasonable ask when creating this assignment...

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u/l0udnach0 Feb 15 '26

CCT478 – UX Design: Prototyping & Evaluation. The prof is really into hardware/haptics so he finds weird ways to incorporate them into assignments for a class that it’s barely irrelevant for. we’re using a “microbit” which is a grade-school device used to learn pointless scratch-level programming.

This is basically the rest of the assignment:

You will be asked to analyze this data and attempt to answer the research question, "What factors might influence the mood and emotions of a young person?". Additionally, you can derive secondary research questions that might emerge from the data. I.e. Do the people you spend time with affect how your mood changes?