Integrating science and research in a HCI design course

Undergraduate computer science students have few opportunities to experience scientific investigation and computer science research. A human-computer interaction (HCI) course can offer many opportunities for research that are accessible to undergraduate students, and because of the similarity between the design and research processes, a design project based HCI course is particularly suited to introducing undergraduate computer science students to the research process. In this paper, we describe and discuss the challenges of integrating research projects into a design HCI course. We also present example research projects and discuss the feedback form students attending the course. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.3.2 [Computer and Information Science Education]: Computer science education H.5.2 [User Interfaces]: Theory and methods General Terms Measurement, Design, Experimentation, Human Factors Keywords Undergraduate research, human-computer interaction research, group projects....

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: SIGCSE
• Authors: Robert Pastel
• Keywords: Computer Science, Computer Science Students, Education, HCI Course, SIGCSE 2005