Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Education through a Hybrid Approach to Experiential Learning

Talone, Andrew B.; Basavaraj, P; Wiśniewski, Pamela

doi:10.1145/3125659.3125685

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“…Yet, they feel and are ill-equipped to pursue UX careers (Gonzalez et al, 2014). Feeling and being unprepared for the UX industry can explain the surging adoption of experiential learning in HCI education since experiential learning can teach students professional skills (Talone et al, 2017).…”

Section: Experiential Learning To Teach Ux In Hcimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They showed positive attitude toward creating accessible software (El-Glaly et al, 2020) and understood the implications of inaccessibility (Shinohara et al, 2016). Fifth, students reported to become more marketable to employers, developed a professional identity, and feel prepared for their long-term career goals (n = 4) (MacDonald and Rozaklis, 2017;Talone et al, 2017;Kabakova et al, 2021).…”

Section: Student Courseworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the current review, these four components were presented especially in UX internships and in-house work placement. In these two immersive EL types, students monitor closely their UX industry mentors (Girouard and Kang, 2021) and faculty advisor (Talone et al, 2017) (orientation and observation). They then practice and refine diverse UX skills with actual client projects, ranging from persona creation, user requirements, and A/B testing (practice and play).…”

Section: Immersive and Non-immersive Experiential Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…To date, HCI educators' efforts to advance HCI pedagogy can be classified in two ways: what topics should be taught and how should HCI topics be taught. The former identifies new HCI topics and curriculum that should to be taught to students in response to rapid technology advancement (Churchill et al, 2013;Musabirov et al, 2019); the latter focuses on proposing a new way of teaching HCI topics by providing a case of their individual pedagogical approach (Talone et al, 2017;Roldan et al, 2020;Lallemand, 2021). Our current work falls under the latter but we take a different approach.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

Kang

Roestel

Girouard

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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Experiential learning is an effective method to teach User Experience (UX) to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) students. Despite its popularity, there seems to be no comprehensive overview on (1) the current use of experiential learning in UX education at universities and (2) student learning outcomes and benefits resulting from the use of experiential learning. Hence, we conducted a scoping review to provide such overview. We analyzed 45 articles published from 2000 to 2021 and we found 12 types of experiential learning employed by HCI educators: applied research project, industry/community research project, hands-on activity, role-play, interactive workshops, guest speakers, in-house work placement, internship, flipped classroom, field project, lab, and design hackathon, from most to least frequent. Twenty-six articles reported student learning outcomes and benefits: (1) enhanced UX technical knowledge, (2) applied textbook knowledge into practice, (3) acquired soft skills, (4) student satisfaction, (5) increased awareness of user diversity, and (6) increased job marketability. Overall, we advance current HCI teaching practices by providing HCI educators with a list of experiential learning types that they can adopt in their classes to teach UX.

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Section: Experiential Learning To Teach Ux In Hcimentioning

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Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

Kang

Roestel

Girouard

2022

Front. Comput. Sci.

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“…All these variables are practically relevant in any domain but have elevated significance in an HCI context. The concepts of time and regulation are central in information technology, UX design and software development, since these are highly collaborative, inherently inter-disciplinary and difficult to manage (Talone, Basavaraj, & Wisniewski, 2017). Over the recent years, product development in these fields has often been the result of distributed teamwork, giving rise to phenomena such as -for instance -the 'global software development' (GSD) model, which can reportedly minimize costs and achieve better deliverable quality by utilizing diverse expertise in remote settings (Chadli et al, 2016;Niazi et al, 2013).…”

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The Assessment Scale for Creative Collaboration (ASCC) Validation and Reliability Study

Mavri

Ioannou

Loizides

2020

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction

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Creativity, a primary academic objective, is crucial in higher education, as economic, informational, societal and environmental advancements rely on people's ability to innovate. Creativity is widely investigated in its individualistic form, yet there is a notable dearth in work that studies its collective dimension, from a learning perspective. This study focuses on validating the psychometric properties of an existing instrument (ASCC), by measuring creative collaboration in blended learning settings. Two hundred and thirty six under and postgraduate students self-evaluated their creative collaboration experiences, using the ASCC instrument. The findings of exploratory factor analysis denote a three-factor (21-item) structure, measuring 'Synergistic Social Collaboration', 'Distributed Creativity', and 'Time Regulation and Achievement', with good internal consistency. An instrument with valid psychometric properties for the assessment of creative collaboration is much-needed in the growing research and practitioners' community. This is critical in the fields of Design, HCI and Engineering, that rely extensively on the creative collaboration (online and offline) of teams to develop innovative products that are suitable for real-world purposes.

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Reducing the UX Skill Gap Through Experiential Learning: Description and Initial Assessment of Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences Program

Girouard

Kang

2021

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2021

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Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction and User Experience Education through a Hybrid Approach to Experiential Learning

Cited by 14 publications

References 5 publications

Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

Experiential Learning to Teach User Experience in Higher Education in Past 20 Years: A Scoping Review

The Assessment Scale for Creative Collaboration (ASCC) Validation and Reliability Study

Reducing the UX Skill Gap Through Experiential Learning: Description and Initial Assessment of Collaborative Learning of Usability Experiences Program

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