Designing the HCI Living Curriculum
Andrea Jovanovic, Chignell, Mark · TSpace (University of Toronto) · 2018
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) has been supporting research into Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education for many years, most actively in the last six years. This thesis proposes the preliminary framework for a Community of Practice (CoP) of HCI scholars and educators, sharing and collaborating to develop teaching materials. Two studies were carried out. The first involved a set of 12 interviews with HCI educators and practitioners that examined requirements for the HCI Living Curriculum. The second study was a questionnaire with 28 respondents which carried out further requirements analysis. Based on the findings of the two studies, use cases and design requirements for the HCI Living Curriculum are presented. Guided by these use cases and design requirements, a prototype HCI Living Curriculum was then constructed. The thesis concludes with a discussion of lessons learned and prospects for future development of the Living Curriculum.