Using a system of tutorials and groups to increase feedback and teach user interface design

Authors:
Tim Wright;James Noble;Stephen Marshall
Affiliations:
Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand;Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Venue:
ACE '05 Proceedings of the 7th Australasian conference on Computing education - Volume 42
Year:
2005

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Abstract

Offering a new course on user-interface design presents several problems for a Computer Science department. As well as building student competency in user interface design and user interface evaluation, the course must give timely feedback to students while ensuring that staff and student workload remains manageable. We developed a course that uses a novel system of tutorials and group work to increase feedback about design to students and control both staff and student workload. We plan to extend this approach to other courses where design and group work are important components.