The development of a Human Computer Interaction course at a senior synthesis course

HCI has been taught in universities and colleges as an elective for computer science majors. An inter-disciplinary synthesis course was developed in the Department of Computer Science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The course was first offered in the fall of 2004. Objectives, content, and pedagogy of this course are outlined. The paper is concluded by citing challenges and issues regarding the development and launching of such a course.

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