Desafios para Programas de Mestrado em Interação Humano-Computador (IHC): a experiência do M2IHM

Marco Winckler (1, 2) , Philippe Palanque (1, 2)

1 IRIT-ICS - Interactive Critical Systems
2 UT3 - Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier

There is an increasing number of undergraduate programs in Computer Science that now includes teaching of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). The occurrence of HCI classes in undergraduate programs is essential to present concepts (e.g. usability, accessibility, User eXperience) and techniques (e.g. prototyping, user interface evaluation) necessary for designing user-centered interactive systems. However, the number of hours devoted to HCI teaching in graduate levels is barely enough to make of students proper usability professionals. For this very purpose, several graduate courses devoted to HCI have been created in the last years, in particularly across the United States and Europe. The success of such as programs in HCI are directly associated to an increasing demand from the industry for usability professionals. In this position paper we report the experience of creation of a master program on Human-Computer Interaction, the M2IHM that is jointly held by the University Paul Sabatier (UPS) and the National School of Civil Aviation (Ecole Nationale d'Aviation Civile -ENAC) in Toulouse, France. Moreover, we discuss the evolution that occurred in the last 10 years with the M2IHM in order to cope with the evolution of technology and the market.

Mots clés: Human-Computer Interaction; graduate teaching

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Marco Winckler, Philippe Palanque. Desafios para Programas de Mestrado em Interação Humano-Computador (IHC): a experiência do M2IHM. Simpósio de Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais (IHC 2010), Oct 2010, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. pp.71-74. ⟨hal-03651215⟩