HCI for the Masses: Multidisciplinary Design Instruction with LINK-UP

While the discipline of human-computer interaction is beginning to benefit from knowledge capture and reuse methods, lacking are effective tools to provide students with the breadth of knowledge and the importance of multidisciplinary exchanges that are vital to productive scientific disciplines. Our ongoing work on the LINK-UP knowledge management and reuse system provides the basis for multidisciplinary exchanges of knowledge among students by leveraging falsifiable hypotheses called claims. This paper describes three case studies, extracted from different disciplines or environments, in which students extract claims from prior work in an effort to better understand the design decisions made.