Cultural HCI Course Modules

Facilitator: Sarah Douglas, University of Oregon

This working group will define a curriculum module in the area of cross-cultural HCI to be used in an Intro to HCI course. Builds on the concept of universal usability. Goal is to produce 3-5 page white paper on topic.

Goal: To write a brief white paper on the curriculum topic of Cross-cultural HCI.

Topics (Paper’s Table of Contents):

• Expand and refine description of group topic
  • Definitions, concepts
• Specify benefits & challenges to success
• Gather resources on topic and examples
  • Papers, books, etc. on topic
  • Existing examples of course content
• Define model curriculum (syllabus)
• Possible pilot projects

Pre-Beijing Workshop Assignment

• Ready to discuss and contribute to topics in above Table of Contents.
• Bring two additional references to papers, books, courses, etc.
• Bring draft syllabus for an 8 hour unit on cultural HCI
• Read these 4 papers (see more information below) by Beijing meeting
• IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001 pages 118-121 on HCI
• HCI and Universal Usability: Statement by Sarah Douglas on drupal
• Two papers (Shneiderman, Tedre) referenced at end of Statement by Douglas

Beijing Workshop Goal

Develop the content for the white paper.

By May 2009

Additional Information:

• The gist of the Cross-cultural HCI curriculum centers around the idea of "universal" usability.

• The basis for the curriculum is the IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001: Computer Science. The Final Report (December 15, 2001). It has a section on the HCI core and elective curriculum on pages 118-121. This is for the BS degree in Computer Science.

• We have developed some materials on drupal: http://www.cpathi18n.org/cms/. Once you get on the site, look for Book Pages and a Book called "Cultural Issues in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)".  We have a lot of material there.  Also, under Forums, you'll find two topics on Cultural HCI.