EDUCHI

The use of dark patterns has become ubiquitous within digital platforms. It has been argued that to address this issue, there is a need to integrate ethics education within design pedagogy and practice. This paper reports a lab protocol study conducted ...

Social computing systems—such as social media and e-commerce platforms as well as search engines and collaboration software— not only drive vast economic value and societal impact, but are also becoming prominent topics in policy discourse. Although ...

To assist students and educators in more deeply grasping user technology needs in busy outdoor settings, we recommend using diary study assignments adapted from social science and human-computer interaction (HCI) research. This suggestion is based on ...

As an inter-discipline or trans-discipline, HCI includes or references many different sources of knowledge in which students are expected to be conversant. The education of HCI practitioners requires exposure to an increasingly large number of these ...

The list of generative AI tools is ever-expanding, as is the hype around such systems. Many such tools are oriented towards augmenting or complementing the existing work of designers. Tools such as Midjourney and others provide features that easily fit ...

Drawing on our collective experience as educators and preliminary results of an in-progress research study, we explore the complexities of integrating storytelling into Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education. Within the user experience (UX) industry,...

Metacognition is vital for learning in general, and its value for HCI educational practices warrants investigation. In general, metacognitive awareness can help student designers consider how their thought processes might influence their design outputs. ...

This article describes a Teachable Moment we refer to as the “Buckets and Lenses” approach, which aims to shift student thinking from rigid categorization (“bucket thinking”) to a more flexible, nuanced perspective (“lenses thinking”) that better aligns ...

As artificial intelligence (AI) technologies become increasingly important for designing human-computer interactions and user experiences, designers must prepare for the challenge of developing meaningful, creative, and technically feasible AI-based ...

Generative AI (GAI) is impacting teaching and learning directly or indirectly across a range of subjects and disciplines. As educators, we need to understand the potential and limitations of AI in HCI education and ensure our graduating HCI students are ...

Critical making practices often involve engaging with tangible objects to generate new knowledge, or what Matt Ratto calls “thinking with your hands” [13]. This paper explores the pedagogical goals and outcomes for an assignment created for a graduate ...

Understanding that not all users are the same is a foundational principle in teaching Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Learning to recognize how the diversity of users and their circumstances condition their experience of interacting with computers is ...

This paper documents an ongoing curriculum building project at the University of Toronto centered on scaffolding software skill acquisition within a user experience (UX) design classroom. The expansion of UX design as a formal discipline of study has ...