Teaching HCI with scenario-based design

Vat, Kam Hou

doi:10.1145/377435.377445

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“…We believe that "real" projects provide an effective pedagogy for learning to work on complex problems. Several HCI courses successfully used group design projects (Vat, 2001;Weinberg & Stephen, 2002;Rosson, Carroll & Rodi;Koppelman & Dijk, 2006), and two courses conclude with high fidelity prototypes (Plimer & Amor, 2006;Brown & Pastel, 2009). HF courses using group projects are also successful in engineering (Stanley & Tawny, 2011;Moody, 2011) and psychology (Beer, McBride, Adams & Rogers, 2011).…”

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“…I believe it is because there are some basic assumptions about the content of computer science held by many academics that prevent the full inclusion of HCI" (Douglas, et al 2002). In the following years, a consensus was built that the HCI course should be a project course (Plimmer & Amor, 2006, Koppelman & Dijk, 2006 emphasizing design (Vat, 2001;Rosson, Carroll & Rodi; using HF techniques (Weinberg & Stephen, 2002;McCrickard, Chewar & Somervell, 2004;Pastel, 2005;Cox, 2005;Brown & Pastel 2009).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Teaching Human Factors to Graduate and Undergraduate Computer Science Students

Pastel¹,

Brown²,

Woller-Carter³

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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Human factors (HF) is not a subject traditionally taught in the Computer Science (CS) curriculum. The traditional CS curriculum focuses on the computer (the machine) and the programs for the machine. Because the faculty was not introduced to HF in their education, studying users has no role in their discipline. Undergraduate CS students are more receptive to new ideas and consequently do not define their discipline as rigidly. Nevertheless, they typically chose to study CS because of their interest in the technology and the machines. Another challenge to introducing HF to the CS curriculum is that there is no space in the program for another course. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is an existing course in most CS curricula that can be leveraged to expose CS undergraduates to HF concepts. The traditional HCI course focused primarily on the technology and implementation of graphical user interfaces. Only recently has design, specifically user centered design, been taught in CS HCI courses.This paper describes combining undergraduate and graduate HCI courses that expose CS students to HF. Students in the undergraduate HCI course design and implements group projects, consisting of smart phone applications (apps), and the graduate students evaluate and test the apps. The challenges of introducing HF to CS students and principles for overcoming them are explained, along with the interactions between the undergraduate and graduate students.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Teaching Human Factors to Graduate and Undergraduate Computer Science Students

Pastel¹,

Brown²,

Woller-Carter³

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual

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“…The material covered in the lectures is much wider than is required for the project. Thus we are not taking a standard problem-based learning approach where the theory is directly related to the problem [9], but rather expect students to select appropriate basic theory to apply to the project problem and to extend the introductory material with their own research into the specific requirements of the project. However, the theoretical material is delivered in an order that is likely to be useful to them for the project.…”

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Peer teaching extends HCI learning

Plimmer

Amor

2006

Proceedings of the 11th Annual SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education

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Crafting a good user experience requires skills in several disciplines. Few people have this breadth of knowledge, and undergraduate computer science students are no exception. Encouraging computer science students to appreciate the ways that other disciplines contribute to Human Computer Interaction is important, yet difficult. Our students learn about this disciplinary interdependence through peer teaching as part of a group project. Each group contains students with complementary skills and we expect a transfer of knowledge. Here we discuss the educational theory behind the project, the project's essential elements and an evaluation of how it aids learning. The model we have developed could be easily adapted for other courses which draw on diverse skills.

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Methodology applied problem-based learning in teaching HCI: A case study in usability evaluation of an online course

Corrêa

Martins

2014

2014 9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (CISTI)

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Teaching HCI with scenario-based design

Cited by 10 publications

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Teaching Human Factors to Graduate and Undergraduate Computer Science Students

Teaching Human Factors to Graduate and Undergraduate Computer Science Students

Peer teaching extends HCI learning

Methodology applied problem-based learning in teaching HCI: A case study in usability evaluation of an online course

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