TOWARDS THE HCI LIVING CURRICULUM

Abstract

Abstract –The Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) has been supporting research into HCI education for many years, most actively in the last six years. At its CHI2014 conference, a workshop on developing a new Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) living curriculum was held, building on three years of research and collaboration. We believe the time is now right to design and build the proposed HCI living curriculum. This paper proposes the preliminary framework for a concrete active social network of HCI scholars and educators, sharing and collaborating to develop course outlines, curricula, and teaching materials. In particular, this paper presents the use cases and design requirements of the HCI living curriculum, based on data collected from HCI educators and practitioners. Future initiatives to move the designforward by prototyping a first version of the living curriculum are also discussed.