Confabulation in the time of transdisciplinarity: reflection on HCI education and a call for conversation

Authors:
Nicholas True;Jeroen Peeters;Daniel Fallman
Affiliations:
Interactive Institute, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;Interactive Institute, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden;Interactive Institute, Department of Informatics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden
Venue:
HCI'13 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-Computer Interaction: human-centred design approaches, methods, tools, and environments - Volume Part I
Year:
2013

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Abstract

As HCI becomes ever-increasingly more transdisciplinary it encounters increasingly complex problems practical, methodological, and pedagogical in natures. This paper is an introductory exploration of the influence HCI education has in bridging academia and industry as students become practitioners. We examined how design pedagogy materializes and takes shape in both work and student process/attitudes as they become professionals, suggesting there is an area of importance to the community that is overlooked. Education shapes designers, designers shape the world, which prompts the need for a dialogue on how education pedagogy shapes practitioners that embody methods, values, skills, goals, and practices. As practitioners embody their knowledge into designs there arises a discussion that ought to be had.