Abstract
The extraordinary development of the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is still poorly reflected in South America, with the notable exception of Brazil. Our interest in HCI came from practice, as we have an extensive experience in software development. We are teaching HCI in a Chilean university (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso) since 2003. Teaching HCI was a highly challenging intercultural, interdisciplinary, cross-field, but very rewarding experience. It was an intercultural experience, as we were born, raised, educated, with work experience both as professionals and professors in an East-European ex-communist country (Romania), but we taught HCI in a Latin-American country (Chile). Moreover, we did it in English, for Spanish speaker students. It was an interdisciplinary experience as HCI is a highly interdisciplinary science itself. It was a cross-field experience, as it allowed us to build a bridge between theory and practice.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Baeza, R., de Souza, C., Rivera, C.: Enseñanza de Interacción Humano-Computador en Latinoamérica. In: Proceedings of I Jornadas de Trabajo sobre Enseñanza de HCI, Puertollano, Spain, pp. 21–31 (2005)
Collazos, C., Vivas, N., Ramírez, M.: La enseñanza de HCI en Colombia: Un trabajo multidisciplinario basado en competencias. In: Proceedings of XXXI Conferencia Latinoamericana de Informática (CLEI 2005), Cali, Colombia, pp. 51–58 (2005)
Constantine, L., Lockwood, A.: Software for Use. ACM Press, New York (1999)
Dix, A.: Human-Computer Interaction. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (1998)
de Souza, C.: The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction. MIT Press, Cambridge (2005)
de Souza, C.: Semiotic Engineering: bringing designers and users together at interaction time. Interacting with Computers 17(3), 317–341 (2005)
Faulkner, X., Culwin, F.: Integration of usability issues within initial software development education, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. In: The proceedings of the thirtieth SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education SIGCSE 1999, vol. 31(1), pp. 296–300. ACM Press, New York (1999)
Folmer, E., van Welie, M., Bosch, J.: Bridging patterns: An approach to bridge gaps between SE and HCI. Information and Software Technology 48(2), 69–89 (2005)
Ivory, M., Hearst, M.: The State of the Art in Automating Usability Evaluation of User Interfaces. ACM Computing Surveys 33(4), 470–516 (2001)
McCracken, D., Wolfe, R.: User-Centered Web Site Development: A Human-Computer Interaction Approach. Prentice-Hall, Upper Saddle River (2004)
Nielsen, J.: Designing Web Usability. New Riders Publishing, Indianapolis (2000)
Nielsen, J.: Usability Engineering. Academic Press, Boston (1993)
Prates, R., de Souza, C., Barbosa, S.: A method for evaluating the communicability of user interfaces. ACM Interactions 7(1), 31–38 (2000)
Rozanski, E., Schaller, N.: Integrating Usability Engineering into the Computer Science Curriculum – A Proposal, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin. In: Proceedings of the 8th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education ITiCSE 2003, vol. 35(3), pp. 202–206. ACM Press, New York (2003)
Rusu, C.: Computer Science Higher Education in Chile. In: Creative Mathematics, North University of Baia Mare, Romania, pp. 121–128 (2003)
Rusu, C.: Estudio comparativo entre los sistemas de enseñanza superior en informática entre Rumania y Chile, Final Report of Project No. 209.731/2003, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile (2004)
Rusu, C.: Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile (2006)
Rusu, C., Rusu, V.: El sistema de enseñanza en informatica en Rumania, Ingenerare. Revista Facultad de Ingeniería, vol. 15, pp. 54–60 (2003)
Rusu, C., Rusu, V.: Human-Computer Interaction from theory to practice, VIII Congreso Iberoamericano de Informática Educativa, Costa Rica (accepted paper, November 2006)
Rusu, C., Rusu, V.: Proiectarea unei interfeţe utilizator în Microsoft Excel folosind Visual Basic for Applications. Lucrarile seminarului de creativitate matematica, North University of Baia Mare, vol. 10, pp. 149–166 (2001)
Rusu, V., Rusu, C.: El Espacio Europeo de la Enseñanza Superior entre Teoríay Práctica. In: Rivera, S., Nuñez, J. (eds.) Experiencias Docentes en Ingeniería, Argentina, vol. 1, pp. 157–166 (2006)
Rusu, V., Rusu, C.: Ergonomia Software in birotică. Buletinul Ştiinţific al Universităţii de Nord Baia Mare, Romania, Fascicola ŞTIINŢE ECONOMICE, Seria A, vol. 21, pp. 144–146 (2004)
Rusu, V., Rusu, C.: Intefata utilizator pentru functii de analiza bursiera. In: Economia contemporana. Prezent si perspective, pp. 303–312. AGIR Publishing House, Bucharest (2004)
Rusu, V., Rusu, C.: ACM SIGCHI Website (ACM’s Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction), http://sigchi.org
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Rusu, C., Rusu, V. (2007). Teaching HCI: A Challenging Intercultural, Interdisciplinary, Cross-Field Experience. In: Ishida, T., Fussell, S.R., Vossen, P.T.J.M. (eds) Intercultural Collaboration. IWIC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4568. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_26
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74000-1_26
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-73999-9
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-74000-1
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)