Applying the Chilean Educational Experience in HCI to Peruvian Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

The importance of human-computer interaction (HCI) education for software professionals should be evident and well understood, when designing computing programs, at all levels. Unfortunately there is a lack of HCI courses in Peruvian computing programs. Changing curricula is often difficult and involves a long bureaucratic process. However, making small changes in courses´ approach and emphasis only requires good will from the professors.The current paper presents a proposal to introduce HCI topics and/or courses in the Informatics Engineering curricula at Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru, based on the Chilean educational experience at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso.