Applying the Chilean Educational Experience in HCI to Peruvian Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

  • Authors:
  • Jose Antonio Pow-Sang;Cristian Rusu;Claudia Zapata;Silvana Roncagliolo

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ACHI '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The importance of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education for software professionals should be evident and well understood, when designing computing programs, at all levels. Unfortunately there is a lack of HCI courses in Peruvian computing programs. Changing curricula is often difficult and involves a long bureaucratic process. However, making small changes in courses' approach and emphasis only requires good will from the professors.The current paper presents a proposal to introduce HCI topics and/or courses in the Informatics Engineering curricula at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, based on the Chilean educational experience at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso.