Rethinking HCI Education for Design: Problem-Based Learning and Virtual Worlds at an HCI Design Studio

نویسندگان

  • Panayiotis Koutsabasis
  • Spyros Vosinakis
چکیده

The practice of teaching and learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design has to develop its own approaches that balance method and technology use with reflective and situated practice. We present our HCI design studio course that makes a combined use of constructivist pedagogies and virtual worlds aiming to aid students reflect on the use of related methods and technologies in design and to cultivate more general skills like self-directed learning, intrinsic motivation and critical thinking. Our HCI design studio course can be thought of as an iterative and incremental teaching and learning process that blends HCI methods, design practice and technology between a real and a virtual design studio. The course introduces problem-based learning to the pedagogies of project-based learning and studio-based learning currently employed in most HCI design studios. The positive student responses and our reflection and experiences focusing on a number of challenges for further implementation are also outlined.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Int. J. Hum. Comput. Interaction

دوره 28  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2012