Software Engineering Education for the Pervasive Human-Centric Computing Era

Moving away from decades of machine-centric computing and making pervasive human-centric computing, the new wave of computing, a reality revolutionises the relationship between humans and computing systems. In order to implement the vision of pervasive human-centric computing, it is necessary to reform software engineering education to well prepare graduates of software engineering programmes for the new challenges and opportunities of software engineering in the pervasive human-centric computing era. In this article, the author provides an overview of pervasive human-centric computing and the new challenges and opportunities associated with pervasive human-centric computing, and discusses the motivation for pervasive human-centric computing and the necessity of the reform of software engineering education to integrate pervasive human-centric computing into software engineering education and curricula. A wide range of technical and non-technical issues that need to be addressed by cross-disciplinary research groups, as well as a set of core strategies for the reform of software engineering education, are also presented.