Learning HCI across institutions, disciplines and countries: a field study of cognitive styles in analytical and creative tasks

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Abdelnour-Nocera, Jose ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7935-7368, Clemmensen, Torkil and Guimaraes, Tatiane (2017) Learning HCI across institutions, disciplines and countries: a field study of cognitive styles in analytical and creative tasks. In: INTERACT 2017 - The 16th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 25-29 Sep 2017, Mumbai, India.

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Human-computer interaction (HCI) is increasingly becoming a subject taught in universities around the world. However, little is known of the interactions of the HCI curriculum with students in different types of institutions and disciplines internationally. In order to explore these interactions, we studied the performance of HCI students in design, technology and business faculties in universities in UK, India, Namibia, Mexico and China who participated in a common set of design and evaluation tasks. We obtained participants’ cognitive style profiles based on Allinson and Hayes scale in order to gain further insights into their learning styles and explore any relation between these and performance. We found participants’ cognitive style preferences to be predominantly in the adaptive range, i.e. with combined analytical and intuitive traits, compared to normative data for software engineering, psychology and design professionals. We further identified significant relations between students’ cognitive styles and performance in analytical and creative tasks of a HCI professional individual. We discuss the findings in the context of the distinct backgrounds of the students and universities that participated in this study and the value of research that explores and promotes diversity in HCI education.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ISSN:	0302-9743
ISBN:	9783319680583
Identifier:	10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_13
Page Range:	pp. 198-217
Identifier:	10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_13
Additional Information:	© IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2017. The final publication is part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 10516) and is available at Springer via https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-68059-0_13
Keywords:	culture, HCI Education, Cognitive Styles, Design, Evaluation
Subjects:	Education Computing > Innovation and user experience > Global software Computing > Innovation and user experience Computing > Innovation and user experience > Usability
Depositing User:	Jose Abdelnour-Nocera
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2017 10:53
Last Modified:	28 Aug 2021 07:08
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/3974

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