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Practice-centered HCI: teaching in undergraduate computing courses in Brazil

Published: 23 December 2020 Publication History

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Human-Computer Interaction is a multidisciplinary field that is taught in Computing undergraduate courses. Although HCI Education has been a theme for research both nationally and internationally, much of this existing research is focused on syllabi guidelines and the topics being taught. We propose an in-depth research so we can better understand how HCI is being taught in Computing undergraduate courses in Brazil. For that, we chose to use the UDUM method, conducting semi-structured interviews with thirteen geographically distributed HCI professors that teach introductory courses in Computing departments and courses in Brazil. Among our results, an aspect that stood out was the high value given to practice by our interviewees, which is the focus of this paper. The interviewees value conducting the course itself guided by a life cycle in HCI, walking through different phases and teaching respective methods and techniques in a practical way, where students can exercise and practice what they are learning in hands-on projects during the course.

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IHC '20: Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems
October 2020
519 pages
ISBN:9781450381727
DOI:10.1145/3424953
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  1. HCI education
  2. HCI in Brazil
  3. HCI teaching
  4. computing education
  5. human-computer interaction

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  • (2023)Applying the TPACK model to HCI Education: Relationships between Perceived Instructional Quality and Teacher KnowledgeProceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education10.1145/3587399.3587402(33-42)Online publication date: 28-Apr-2023
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