HCI Education Digital Library

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HCI Education Digital Library

• Ben Bederson, Kelly Booth, Alan Borning, Edward
  Clarkson, Jason Day, Jim Foley, Saul Greenberg,
  Marti Hearst, Charles van der Mast, Scott
  McCrickard, Judy Olson, Sharon Oviatt, Kari-Jouko
  Raiha
• CHI 2005 Workshop 8
• HCI Graduate Education
• See also http//hcc.cc.gatech.edu/chi2005workshop-
  HCCEDL.htm

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Existing HCC Education Digital Library

• Being developed at Georgia Tech
• Jim Foley, Ed Clarkson
• Contents
• Course syllabi, PPt lectures, videos, homework,
  projects, tests, study aids
• Purposes
• Serve the HCI community
• Research
• See http//hcc.cc.gatech.edu/

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Purpose of Session

• Brainstorm on issues surrounding such a digital
  library
• Issues and challenges
• Content suggestions

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Target Audiences

• Teachers
• All of us as we teach new material
• Faculty at schools without HCI experts who
  nevertheless want/need to teach a course
• Students
• Primarily graduate or senior undergraduate.
• To supplement course material
• For self-study (cf. the diverse backgrounds of
  students coming into HCI)
• Professionals

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Challenges Pragmatic Issues

• Content vetting process
• Screen in advance vs. Darwinian rank after
  submission
• Group favored screen in advance
• IP Issues
• Tensions between recognition and free access
• One approach is Lessigs Creative Commons
  licensing
• General sense goal is free access for
  non-commercial use

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Challenges a Self-sustaining Library?

• Self-sustaining necessitates distributed
  volunteers as opposed to dependency on central
  person(s)
• Wikipedia-style as a possible model?
• Password protected with a lot of people having
  passwords

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Challenges Research Issues

• How to develop/manage a distributed library in a
  cost-effective way in a smallish and growing
  community
• Enabling technological and organizational
  structures
• Metadata challenges
• How to adapt hierarchies to new needs?
• Facets approach worth considering, as opposed ot
  a single fixed hierarchy

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Challenges Funding

• Motivation that could be used in a proposal
• Need to get a lot of people up to speed in this
  important emerging area of CS.
• Need more than a textbook, therefore need
  something like the HCC EDL.
• Possible funding sources
• Corporate funding meets training needs within
  companies.
• ACM Professional Development Center
• NSF

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Other DL Issues

• How do they affect practices?
• ACM DL affects submissions practices
• Local mirroring is labor-intensive, long-lasting
  external URLs required
• Implies future focus on organizational and review
  process e.g., organizing resources around key
  ideas.

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Content Suggestions Commercial Products
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Content Suggestions Videos, Case Studies
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Content Suggestions Books, Tool Links
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Content Suggestions Non-public Resources
(videos)

• Video from IBM project where lack of usability
  studies caused failure (from S. Greenberg)
• Strauss Mouse, Marilyn Mantei
• CHI 90 video on peoples misconceptions of what
  is a mouse, how to use mouse (from M. Hearst)
• Nick Burns, Your Companys Computer Guy
• Saturday Night Live Best of Jimmy Fallon DVD
  (from K. Booth)

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Content Suggestions Wish List

• Updated Towards the Year 2000
• Better GOMS teaching aid
• Perhaps Why GOMS? (Kieras)
• IRB examples, esp. for thorny designs (e.g.,
  deception).
• Permanent telephone interface system for class
  use.

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Content Suggestions Teaching Methods

• Group project-oriented
• Have groups do heuristic evaluation on other
  groups.
• Present difficult individual group design
  problems for class discussion.
• Hall of Fame/Hall of Shame
• Students present examples of good and bad design
  incentive provided to have one of three
  best/worst examples
• Posting good examples of previous work bootstraps
  future quality.