Educating computer people about people & computers: report on conference panel, HCI'95, Huddersfield

  • Authors:
  • Philip J. A. Scown;Barbara McManus

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

This report describes a panel session on HCI Education held at the HCI'95 Conference. During the debate, expert views were expressed about many of the key issues affecting HCI teachers today, including: how can educators cope with the flood of new HCI ideas? should HCI be fully integrated into software engineering courses or taught in specialist modules? what are the core elements of HCI that all students should learn? there are perceived cultural differences in HCI teaching in the UK, USA and Scandinavia --- are these differences real and are they important? should we be sharing educational materials? can HCI design be taught or are creative designers born not bred?