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This introduction serves three purposes. The first is to introduce a new series of articles, written by individuals with a variety of backgrounds, that discuss HCI education. While everyone agrees that HCI is an interdisciplinary field, people often experience HCI from only one perspective. This is true for students, educators, researchers, and practitioners. The goal for this series of articles is to provide a better understanding of how HCI education is viewed from these varied perspectives.
The article that follows this introduction is the first in this series and was written by Julie Jacko of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Florida International University. In her article, Dr. Jacko describes the origins of Industrial Engineering (IE), how HCI currently fits into IE, and how HCI could be more fully integrated into IE curricula.
The second goal for this introduction is to inform the CHI community of an on-going effort to gather, analyze, and disseminate resources for HCI education. SIGCHI continues to support the Educational Resources Development Group (ERDG) with the goal of establishing a repository for resources (e.g. example syllabi, exercises, projects) for HCI educators.
The ERDG spent its first year learning about the needs of HCI educators. The result was a long list of resources that educators want, but do not necessarily have (Sears, Jacko, and Mantei, 1997). During its second year, the ERDG will begin the process of gathering these resources and making them available to whoever needs them. While several volunteers from the first year will continue working on this project, new volunteers are needed if it is to be successful.
Volunteers will identify one specific type of resource and begin gathering examples. These examples will be passed along to Marilyn Mantei who is coordinating the creation of a WWW site to distribute the results. If you have the time and energy, and can help in this effort, please contact either of the ERDG Co-chairs at the addresses at the end of this introduction.
The SIGCHI Educational Resource Development Group invites HCI educators, students, and researchers to submit their favorite solutions to educational problems. Everyone has a favorite tip, trick, tool, or technique for teaching a difficult concept. We would like to collect these solutions and make them available to the HCI community. Contributions will be made available via the WWW and selected contributions may be included future issues of the SIGCHI Bulletin.
Your contribution could be as simple as an exercise that gets students to be more creative or a small applet that demonstrates a fundamental concept from human-computer interaction. In addition to your solution, we would appreciate a brief description of the concept it conveys, how it is used, and why you believe it works. We will include the name and affiliation of the individuals who submit each contribution, unless you would rather remain anonymous.
Everyone has something they could contribute, so please share your experience. Submissions will be accepted via regular mail, email, or over the Web (provide a URL). Please send submissions to either ERDG Co-chair:
Andrew Sears
School of Computer Science
DePaul University
243 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, IL 60604, USA
sears@cs.depaul.edu
Julie Jacko
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Florida International University
University Park
Miami, FL 33199, USA
jackoj@fiu.edu
Sears, A., Jacko, J., and Mantei, M. (1997). The SIGCHI Educational Resource Development Group. SIGCHI Bulletin 29, 3, 4-6.
Editor's Note: See the SIGCHI News section later in this issue for news of the availability of SIGCHI Kits for Students.
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