In teaching HCI to the young, it is important to highlight good designu as well as teach people how to find design and usability problems. I've seen some sessions where children are asked to critique or evaluate systems which is fine, but there is often a lack of discussion about what "good design" is. Actually the same is true of our interaction with people outside the field. We can show what bad design is, but examples of good design are harder to come by. Exercises where people redesign something to eliminate problems would seem to be critical so in ideas about exercises, consider a cycling through evaluation, design, review several times. As a field we love to find fault, but finding what is good with a product or service is a bit harder. A question that I like to ask designers and usability colleagues is "What artifacts (online or real) have inspired your work?". People could give many answers, but I am often presented with a long pause and an interviewee struggling to think of examples of good design.
Chauncey On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Elizabeth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interestingly enough I was just reading a report I was sent yesterday: > > Being Human: Human-Computer Interaction in the Year 2020 > http://research.microsoft.com/hci2020/download.html > which makes various recommendations, including number 4 which is > summarised in the reader%u2019s guide as: > > "Teach HCI to the young. > The report argues that changes in computers and computing have a > significant impact on all our lives. Consequently, the study of HCI > should be introduced to the young as soon as possible. This goes > beyond traditional educational concepts of %u2018computer > science%u2019 %u2013 not just teaching children about how computers > and applications work, but about their wider impact." > > -so sorry, it's not really helpful to you, Meredith, but I was just > excited to see that people are already on it and thought it might be > of interest and encouragement! > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=28169 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
