An Experience of Teaching HCI to Undergraduate Software Engineering Students

Due to the more and more intense competition in software market, usability is gaining more and more attention. For software engineering students, learning and mastering human-computer interaction knowledge can help them design software products with higher usability. In this paper, we describe a preliminary experience of teaching HCI to undergraduate software engineering students in Nanjing University (NJU), including curriculum design, course implementation and improvements based on some feedback from students. We believe that this information is useful at how to teach HCI in a practical way, and we hope it can serve as guidance for other teachers struggling with similar course design issues.