Back to school: HCI & higher education

XII.5 September + October 2005
Page: 34
Digital Citation

HCI education at the ICT&S Human-Computer Interaction as a cornerstone between technology and society


Authors:
Manfred Tscheligi, Regina Bernhaupt

Understanding, applying, and developing the field of human-computer interaction has specific relevance for the development of our society. Societal applications of any kind (like electronic governments or applications to support special needs) had, have, and will have an interface to users. Placing HCI education right at the center of a curriculum in information technologies and society (here the "and" has to be emphasized in particular) is a way to build it in. The goal is to go further than the usual orientation of HCI as a multidisciplinary discipline. The context is within societal research, information theory, and transdisciplinarity. Thus…




You must be a member of SIGCHI, a subscriber to ACM's Digital Library, or an interactions subscriber to read the full text of this article.

GET ACCESS

Join ACM SIGCHI

In addition to all of the professional benefits of being a SIGCHI member, members get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.


Subscribe to the ACM Digital Library

Get access to all interactions content online and the entire archive of ACM publications dating back to 1954. (Please check with your institution to see if it already has a subscription.)


Subscribe to interactions

Get full access to interactions online content and receive the print version of the magazine bimonthly.


Post Comment


No Comments Found