As for HCI, it is my hope that it stops being seen as a field "just for specialists," and becomes something like data structures, where every CS student should have at least one semester of HCI just to understand the basic concepts.- Randy Pausch, discussing predictions for the future of human-computer interaction (HCI), in Communications of the ACM.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
HCI for all CS students
I shared this quote with my GUI class today:
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Working in the field a while and after seeing some of the designs a lot of people come up with, I'd have to agree that every single person in the CS world should go back and take some sort of HCI course. Even if it's from the very basic GUI concepts all the way to human psychology.
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