Research Project
How can we build a community of practice for HCI/UX educators?
While the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) discipline has grown significantly over the past few decades, there is an increased need to build a community of practice (CoP) where HCI educators and scholars can share and get feedback on course outlines, syllabi, learning materials, and teaching techniques and strategies. Our goals in building the HCI Education CoP are to (1) create channels to discuss issues pertinent to HCI education and (2) provide a platform for sharing HCI curricula and teaching experiences.
Related Publications
EduCHI 2023: 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education
Workshop/Symposium
Gray, C. M., MacDonald, C. M., Lallemand, C., Oleson, A., Carter, A. R. L., St-Cyr, O., and Pitt, C. (2023)
EduCHI 2023 will bring together an international community of scholars, practitioners, and researchers to shape the future of Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) education. Held as part of the CHI 2023 conference, the one-day symposium will feature interactive discussions about HCI educational research, pedagogical innovations, teaching practices, and current and future challenges facing HCI educators. In addition to providing a platform to share pedagogical strategies and continue to build a scholarly knowledge base for HCI education, EduCHI 2023 will also provide opportunities for HCI educators to learn new instructional strategies and deepen their pedagogical knowledge.
Editorial: Teaching and learning human–computer interaction (HCI): current and emerging practices
Commentary
MacDonald, C. M., Girouard, A., Granollers, T., Joshi, A., Kang, J., Kharrufa, A., & Slegers, K. (2023)
Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the academic discipline dedicated to understanding how humans interact with technology. Since technologies play such a prominent role in our daily lives, ensuring that they are designed to reflect the full spectrum of human abilities, skills, and experiences is more important than ever. Between higher education HCI courses and degrees and practitioner-oriented UX training programs, there are more opportunities than ever to teach and learn HCI, but HCI can be taught from various disciplinary perspectives at different academic levels, in different modalities, and in different institutional contexts. Therefore, for educators, what does it mean to teach HCI? For students, what are the most impactful and effective ways to learn HCI?
Editor’s Message: Special Issue on Human-Computer Interaction
Commentary
St-Cyr, O., and MacDonald, C. M. (2022)
We are very pleased to welcome you to this special issue of EngageCSEdu Open Educational Resources (OERs) on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). HCI, as its name indicates, is the study of how humans interact with computer systems. Traditionally, HCI was known as the discipline focused on the design of Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) for computer applications. Today, this view no longer holds. In fact, as many societies have moved toward advanced computerized technologies, more devices and systems are under the umbrella of HCI.
EduCHI 2022: 4th Annual Symposium on HCI Education
Workshop/Symposium
MacDonald, C. M., St-Cyr, O., Gray, C. M., Potter, L. E., Lallemand, C., Vasilchenko, A., Sin, J., Carter, A., Pitt, C., Sari, E., Padhi, D. R., & Pillai, A. G. (2022).
EduCHI 2022 will bring together an international community of scholars, practitioners, and researchers to shape the future of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education. Held as part of the CHI 2022 conference, the two-day symposium will feature interactive discussions about trends, curricula, pedagogies, teaching practices, and current and future challenges facing HCI educators. In addition to providing a platform to share curriculum plans and teaching materials, EduCHI 2022 will also provide opportunities for HCI educators to learn new instructional strategies and deepen their pedagogical knowledge.
EduCHI 2021: 3rd Annual Symposium on HCI Education
Workshop/Symposium
MacDonald, C. M., St-Cyr, O., Gray, C. M., Potter, L. E., Vasilchenko, A., Sin, J., & Churchill, E. F. (2021).
The HCI Education Community of Practice (CoP) has grown considerably over the past few years, starting with the HCI Living Curriculum workshop at CHI 2018 and continuing through to the EduCHI symposia at both CHI 2019 and CHI 2020. Central to the growth of the CoP has been two parallel efforts: creating channels to discuss issues pertinent to HCI education and providing a platform for sharing HCI curricula and teaching experiences. To continue this progress, we are organizing EduCHI 2021, the 3rd Annual Symposium on HCI Education. EduCHI 2021 will be held virtually and will feature interactive discussions about HCI education trends, curricula, pedagogies, teaching practices, and current and future challenges facing HCI educators.
EduCHI 2020: 2nd Annual Symposium on HCI Education
Workshop/Symposium
St-Cyr, O., MacDonald, C.M., Gray, C. M., Potter, L. E., Vasilchenko, A., Sin, J., & Churchill, E. F. (2020).
The past few years has seen steady growth for the HCI Education Community of Practice (CoP), driven primarily by the “HCI Living Curriculum” workshop at CHI 2018 and the inaugural EduCHI symposium at CHI 2019. In discussions among HCI educators over the past two years, two themes have stood out: creating channels for discussions related to HCI education and providing a platform for sharing HCI curricula and teaching experiences. To that end, we are organizing EduCHI 2020: The 2nd Annual Symposium on HCI Education. Similar to last year’s symposium, EduCHI 2020 will again feature paper presentations about HCI education trends, curricula, pedagogies, teaching practices, and diverse and inclusive HCI education. In addition, we will also be adding more opportunities for discussions among and between members of the HCI education community, particularly around solving current and future challenges facing HCI educators.