Jean Gasen Who's to Say? Essential Elementsof HCI Education Anyone can tell you. What you learn in college is just the beginning. Working in the "real world" provides experiences that are unmatched through formal education. Work experience is in a class by itself, serving as the ultimate educator for the integration and application of what is learned in higher education. material from the SIGCHI report and the Perlman curriculum, he collected information from HCI practitioners about the HCI knowledge and skills needed to be effective in their current position. While the study sample is small, the issues raised by his study are significant. For example, what knowledge and skill areas do practitioners find most critical? Are these areas ones that can or should be taught in a formal education setting? Are practitioners the best judges of what should be taught in a formal curriculum, or are their actual educational needs at variance with their perceived needs? To develop an HCI curriculum that is useful for graduates, it must address the kinds of knowledge and skills needed by practitioners in today's and tomorrow's world. Coming to a common understanding about what is most important to provide is difficult, however, because the context of practice is such a multidimensional arena. For example, the HCI specialist's team role may vary, the kinds of projects could be vastly different in size and scope and the practice settings may be very different (Dayton, etal., 1993; Strong etaL, 1994) Each of these dimensions has significant impact on the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective as an HCI specialist in a practice setting. However, curricula must still be developed and some level of consensus must be reached to move forward. What is needed is a better understanding of the nature of HCI practice and how effective practice can be mapped back to a variety of learning experiences - from formal education through on-the-job training. Determining what needs to be learned, when it should be learned and how to best structure the learning environment would go a long way towards developing a cohesive and flexible curriculum that responds to the SIGCHI Bulletin needs of academia and industry. The joint participation of educators and practitioners must be part of that process. I hope Steve's paper stimulates further research in this critically important area. I welcome comments and feedback on issues raised by his pilot study or any other educational topics of interest to the SIGCHI readership. © rj
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Who's to say?: essential elements of HCI education
Gasen, Jean
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, Volume 27 (3)
Association for Computing Machinery – Jul 1, 1995
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