We begin this introduction to this first of two complementary volumes by providing a general context for both volumes and by giving a brief historical view of management information systems (MIS) scholars’ interest in human-computer interaction (HCI) research. We then integrate various HCI issues into an overarching framework that can encompass broad HCI concerns from multiple disciplines. Afte...

Although human-computer interaction (HCI) has been developing for thirty years, the field has advanced slowly due to a lack of knowledge about HCI structure. This research thus seeks to explore and clarify HCI intellectual structure. Data collected from the ISI Web of Knowledge totaled 1,168 HCI related articles, and 33,724 references were identified. There were 75 highly cited research article...

Discrete Trial Training (DTT) is an intervention method used by behaviour analysts for teaching skills to children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) around a table using physical materials and artefacts. Traditional DTT suffers from these main challenges: inconsistency due to human limitations; need for focusing the child’s attention on the trial at hand; and disruptions on account of insessi...

It is important, for our credibility as user interface designers and educators, that we practice what we preach. Many system designers and programmers remain sceptical about the need for user-centred design. To win them over, we need to be absolutely clear about what they need to do. We, as a community, propose many different methods to support naïve designers so that they will design and imple...

Playful interaction in an important topic in HCI research, and there is an ongoing debate about the fundamental principles that underpin playful systems. This paper makes a contribution to this debate by outlining a set of sensitizing concepts which have emerged from an analysis of interaction in the playground; these help explain its appeal to children, and have been selected for their potenti...

Feedback is regarded as one of the most important influences on student learning and motivation. But standard compiler feedback is designed for experts not novice programming students, who can find it difficult to interpret and understand. In this paper we present BlueFix, an online tool currently integrated into the BlueJ IDE which is designed to assist programming students with error diagnosi...

In this paper, an overview of different kinds of approaches in phenomenology, philosophy and many more concerning Human Computer Interaction (HCI) are shortly introduced. The outreach as well as complexity of computer technology has grown during the last decades, so that many people working with computers are not necessarily in this same profession. Therefore it has gotten more important to con...

The practice of teaching and learning Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design has to develop its own approaches that balance method and technology use with reflective and situated practice. We present our HCI design studio course that makes a combined use of constructivist pedagogies and virtual worlds aiming to aid students reflect on the use of related methods and technologies in design and t...

International development is concerned with making life better for the least privileged people of the world. Since the 1990s, HCI has engaged increasingly with development through an interdisciplinary field known as “information and communication technologies for development,” or ICT4D. This article overviews the historical relationship between HCI and international development, compares their ...

In this paper I reflect on the role of HCI Education in University level courses. The theme of the conference is 'Architecting the Future' and I analyse what we mean by this in terms of HCI Education. As a community we seem to have moved from fundamental HCI issues through usability and user-centered design, and last year were all about design and creativity – have we moved one step beyond agai...