In order to have a truly effective educational multimedia application, the visual design has to be as pedagogically sound as the course itself. No matter how profound the content is, if the visual design does not take into account how students learn, then the course will not teach. In this paper, we look at what became the foundation of knowledge and theory for the digital design and planning o...

In this paper, we investigate ways to engage computer science students, majoring in design, use, and interaction (with technology), in design practices through an advanced graduate course in interaction design. We take a closer look at how prior embodied and explicit knowledge of HCI that all of the students had before their enrollment in the course, combined with better understanding of design...