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Creating a realistic context for team projects in HCI

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Herman Koppelman,

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, Volume 38, Issue 3

Pages 58 - 62

https://doi.org/10.1145/1140123.1140142

Published: 26 June 2006 Publication History

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Team projects are nowadays common practice in HCI education. This paper focuses on the role of clients and users in team projects in introductory HCI courses. In order to provide projects with a realistic context we invite people from industry to serve as clients for the student teams. Some of them have a professional interest in participating in our course and define a project themselves. Another way we make projects realistic is to have teams evaluate their designs with real users.We describe how we incorporate the role of clients and users in our courses and describe our experiences. One of the results of our evaluations is that most students find it very interesting and stimulating to work with a client on a 'real' project from industry.

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Creating a realistic context for team projects in HCI
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing education
      1. Computing education programs
        Computer science education
        Information systems education

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ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 38, Issue 3

September 2006

367 pages

ISSN:0097-8418

DOI:10.1145/1140123

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ITICSE '06: Proceedings of the 11th annual SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
June 2006
390 pages
ISBN:1595930558
DOI:10.1145/1140124
Conference Chair:
Renzo Davoli
Università di Bologna, Italy
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Program Chairs:
Michael Goldweber
Xavier University
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Paola Salomoni
Università di Bologna, Italy

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