Category: education
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towards good collaboration
This is a list of principles for collaboration from an expert on what doesn’t work: Be compassionate. If you’re in a design critique, be critical and encouraging. Good critique should be encouraging. It’s not helpful to diminish someone’s excitement to work on their project. Be helpful. I’ve been in too…
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Course Design
I’m really excited about an introductory HCI course I’m developing (with some amazing collaborators) for the spring semester. For the last week or so, I’ve been working with several practicing designers to establish a set of core skills interns and/or entry-level designers ought to know in order to succeed in…
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curiosity and diverse interests
One of the challenges that I find myself coming up against every now and again has to do with which interests to pursue and which to abandon. Looking up at the whiteboard near my desk I see the following list of papers that are in various stages of completion: quals scientific…
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HCI and the Future of Education
In Being Human: Human-computer Interaction in the Year 2020, Harper, Rodden, Rogers, and Sellen remind us that, “With the uptake of calculators, educationalists became concerned that students’ ability to perform mental arithmetic were disappearing.” Then, they ask, “In 2020, what other kinds of basic skills might go?” Could reading be…