Design and implementation of advanced HCI education

Abstract

Existing HCI courses are usually designed for advanced undergraduates and graduates. And most of them do not have independent lab course. The practical parts are confined to the form of projects in the curriculum. This paper presents a new lab course called Media and Cognition and its lab platform. The new lab course is more appropriate and more general education for junior students with less professional knowledge. By using a larger, scalable and complete design of experiments, included five project modules and thirty-seven knowledge points, the lab platform integrates many contents of existing HCI courses, and offers more knowledge about media expression and human cognition to meet higher requirements of computer education. The other contributions of this work include: provides Open-Educational-Resources (OERs) for short-term foreign exchange students. Now the lab course has served more than one hundred students every semester. Over thirty pieces of achievements are produced in each year. The Statistics of feedback demonstrates that Media and Cognition and its lab platform can improve the students’ ability of developing HCI projects.