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Call for Participation:
HCI Educators Workshop at HCI2004, Leeds Metropolitan University,
6th Sept 2004
You are invited to participate in a workshop at HCI2004, which will focus on defining and updating curricula for HCI for undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes, and, in so doing, define levels of competency in HCI graduates.
There have been several attempts to do this in the past, but at the 7th HCI Educators Workshop in Preston in April 2004, participants agreed that these were now both out of date and incomplete.
At a time when we are increasingly required to define levels of competency for roles in industry, and to design educational programmes that lead to these levels, if we are to enhance the external perception of HCI as a discipline, it is vital that HCI specialists and educators take the lead in this.
The workshop will be a full day workshop (costing £65), and there are no qualifying criteria to participate, but we do ask those who take part to undertake some preparation and/or bring sample materials to the workshop. Details will be forwarded tp those who sign up.
Workshop delegates need not attend the conference itself (8-10th Sept) but may do so on payment of the appropriate fee. In order to join the workshop you should register on the registration page of http://www.hci2004.org/ - there is an option on page two of the online form to "not attend" the conference if you wish, and payment can be made online by credit card, or offline.
You can read more about the workshop at: http://www.bcs-hci.org.uk/hci2004/downloads/wsEducators.pdf , which has details about the context, goals, methods and deliverables of the workshop. The workshop will be organised, after an introduction, in four sessions. The first session is described below and the other sessions are described at the above URL.
In the first session you would participate in one of four break-out groups, which will:
Review existing frameworks, including British HCI Group, SFIA and SIGCHI. Recommend organizing principles for the curriculum design. (led by Russell Beale, University of Birmingham)
Review changes in research and practice within HCI. Recommend principles for scope. (led by Paul Englefield, IBM)
Review trends in disciplinary boundaries in academia and industry. Recommend principles for relating the curriculum to other disciplines. (led by Tom McEwan, Napier University, Edinburgh)
Review learning outcomes and learning activities. Recommend principles for learning and teaching focus. (led by John Rosbottom, University of Portsmouth)
The groups will recombine to discuss and propose a conceptual framework.
In the afternoon the workshop will split again into four groups to populate that framework - each working on a subset of the classes defined in the morning session. Finally all groups will recombine to document the design - identifying the main messages and issues for broader discussion by the follow-up panel on industry-day of the conference which involves employers of HCI graduates and authors of leading HCI textbooks.
For further details contact the workshop chair, Tom McEwan, at [log in to unmask]
Organisers: Russell Beale, University of Birmingham; Jonathon Crellin, University of Portsmouth; Sandra Cairncross, Napier University, Edinburgh; Paul_Englefield, IBM Usability Competency Centre, Warwick, UK; Tom McEwan, Napier University, Edinburgh; Barbara McManus, University of Central Lancashire; Lachlan MacKinnon, Heriot-Watt University; John Rosbottom, University of Portsmouth
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