Carnegie Mellon also has a three-semester joint MHCI program in Pittsburgh and Portugal, from which I just graduated (http://www.m-iti.org/mhci). While it was sad to leave Pittsburgh and all of the resources, brilliant minds and pioneers in the field there, Portugal definitely had a laid-back personal atmosphere and a few resources of its own. For instance Larry Constantine is a pioneer in his own right in human-centered software engineering, and he not only taught a course but also gave personalized workshops on model-driven inquiry for any team of students who asked. Dan Boyarski led a workshop in information visualization. And Don Norman came during the summer. I learned a lot from the faculty on both sides of the ocean, whose varied backgrounds made gave me several different tools with which to approach a design challenge.
So the Portugal MHCI is more like a start-up program than the established flagship one in Pittsburgh. It depends what kind of atmosphere you want. But I think that either one is a great choice for a masters degree that is really oriented toward the professional who wants to work in the industry immediately after graduating. A lot of my colleagues who graduated from the 1-year Pittsburgh program a few months earlier are already working at cool companies and doing amazing things. Both programs offer the same core courses, which give you a solid understanding not only of how to design on an interaction level but also how an entire system should fit together to best support the workflow or tackle the problem being addressed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48436 ________________________________________________________________ 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
