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Call for Papers
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HCI-E2: Workshop on HCI Engineering Education
http://ui-engineering.org/activities/hci-engineering-education-2023/
In conjunction with INTERACT 2023
York 28 August - 1 September 2023
https://interact2023.org
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Overview
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The workshop aims at carrying forward work on identifying, examining,
structuring, and sharing educational resources and approaches to support
the process of teaching/learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
Engineering. The widening range of available interaction technologies and
their applications in increasingly varied contexts (private or
professional) underlines the importance of teaching HCI Engineering but
also the difficulty of taking into account changes and developments in this
field in often static university curricula. Besides, as these technologies
are taught in diverse curricula (ranging from Human Factors and Psychology
to hardcore Computer Science), we are interested in what the best
approaches and best practices are to integrate HCI Engineering topics in
the curricula of programs in Software Engineering, Computer Science,
Human-computer Interaction, Psychology, Design, etc.
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Scope
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Engineering interactive systems is a multidisciplinary endeavour positioned
at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Software
Engineering, Usability Engineering, Interaction Design, Visual Design, and
other disciplines. The Human-Computer Interaction Engineering (HCI-E) field
is concerned with providing methods, techniques, and tools for the
systematic and effective design, development, testing, evaluation, and
deployment of interactive systems in a wide range of application domains.
HCI techniques, methods and tools, as well as many other novel forms of
interaction, involve aspects that need to be adequately addressed in the
curricula of programs in HCI, Software Engineering and Computer Science.
This begs the question of how best to address these topics in those
curricula, and what the best approaches to address them are. When
considering education about HCI Engineering, we need to think about who is
being educated as there is likely to be different curriculum scope and
educational methods for different types of learners. There are two main
distinctions likely influencing these methods:
- Technical vs non-technical. Students in Computer Science and similar
areas are likely to be the main consumers of detailed HCI-E education.
However, the creation of interactive applications “requires input from
science, engineering and design disciplines” and multidisciplinary teamwork
requires from participants an increased understanding and appreciation for
other disciplines. It is also important for those who are likely to have a
more interface design or user research role to able to appreciate the
limits of technology and the potential impacts of architectural design
choices.
- Student vs practitioner. It is likely that the primary interest of many
participants will be university education. However, developers are often
involved in lively online discussions about different frameworks, and even
in the use of monads in interactive JavaScript. Interaction Design
Foundation courses attract tens of thousands of UX practitioners worldwide,
evidencing the desire of on-the-job learning in both communities.
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Audience
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We would like to bring together experiences from people teaching HCI
concepts impacting how we engineer interactive systems and from people
working in HCI-E to identify topics and methods that should be included in
teaching this subject. Besides the courses in HCI-E, interesting inputs may
arrive from HCI courses outside the CS curriculum requiring to communicate
engineering challenges, or from more general software engineering courses
discussing aspects related to human factors. Hence, we will solicit
contributions from the HCI-E-related communities, and we will be very
interested in welcoming members of the educational community, for a
fruitful discussion.
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Goals
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We identify two types of potential outcomes that could define the group
activities during the workshop:
Educational resources – One goal is to create a repository of educational
resources for HCI-E including cases studies, projects and exercises. These
educational resources need to be described in a common structure. The
definition of this structure was started at the previous workshop. A goal
of the workshop will be to extend and consolidate this structure as well as
to describe these resources according to this structure.
HCI-E Education Roadmap – Edited volume: Depending on the quality of the
submissions and the workshop results, revised versions of the contributions
will be published on an edited volume. Alternatively, we will produce a
journal paper summarizing and consolidating the contributions, in the form
of an HCI Engineering Education roadmap.
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Submissions
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Position papers (6-10 pages in Springer format) must report experiences
related to HCI Engineering education. Submissions could report software
engineering units including some aspects of HCI-E, curricula or teaching
units dedicated to HCI-E, case studies/projects demonstrating aspects of
HCI-E, evaluation of students’ skills related to HCI-E, training
non-technical and mixed students in HCI-E, training appropriate aspects of
HCI-E to professionals/practitioners, a new teaching modality promising for
teaching HCI-E, introducing HCI-E into existing curricula, etc. Authors
could also provide in their submission a short summary of their experience
in the field and their motivation to participate in this workshop.
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Important Dates
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Submission deadline: May 15th, 2023
Notification deadline: June 15th, 2023
Workshop: to be announced
Deadlines are AoE.
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Organizers
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José C. Campos, University of Minho & HASLab/INESC TEC, Portugal
Laurence Nigay, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Alan Dix, Computational Foundry, Swansea University, Wales, UK
Anke Dittmar, University of Rostock, Germany
Simone DJ Barbosa, PUC Rio, Brazil
Lucio Davide Spano, University of Cagliari, Italy
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Prof. Lucio Davide Spano
Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica
Università di Cagliari
Via Ospedale 72, 09124, Cagliari, Italy
Tel: +39 070 675 8760
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<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7106-0463>