Teaching HCI through magic

Chrystie Myketiak; Paul Curzon; Peter W. McOwan; Jonathan Black

Teaching HCI through magic

Chrystie Myketiak, Paul Curzon, Peter W. McOwan, Jonathan Black

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We discuss our use of magic to enthuse students about HCI and teach core concepts. We describe the format we trialed with student groups with a wide range of background from whole year groups to groups of gifted students. We conducted post-event surveys with students for two events and obtained teacher feedback from five others. We discuss the results of that data, showing that magic can be effective method for teaching HCI. The same tricks have since been used as part of an Interactive Systems Design MSc course.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI 2012 - It's the experience
Subtitle of host publication	the 30th ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI), Austin, Texas, USA, May 5-10, 2012.
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1-4
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1015-4
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2012
Event	The contextualised curriculum: a CHI 2012 workshop - Austin, Texas, 5-10 May 2012 Duration: 5 May 2012 → …

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Conference	The contextualised curriculum: a CHI 2012 workshop
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Teaching HCI through magic. / Myketiak, Chrystie; Curzon, Paul; McOwan, Peter W. et al.
CHI 2012 - It's the experience: the 30th ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI), Austin, Texas, USA, May 5-10, 2012.. New York: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 1-4.

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