• DocumentCode
    3404454
  • Title

    Negotiating the border between classroom and workplace: Approaches to teaching usability

  • Author

    Traynor, Brian ; Hayhoe, George

  • Author_Institution
    Mount R. Univ., Calgary, AB, Canada
  • fYear
    2013
  • fDate
    15-17 July 2013
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    3
  • Abstract
    This workshop focuses on teaching usability at the undergraduate and master´s level, and emphasizes the potential of such courses to bring the classroom and workplace together, aid student learning, and allow businesses to influence the training of the next generation of professional communicators.
  • Keywords
    professional communication; teaching; classroom; professional communicators; student learning; teaching usability; workplace; Conferences; Educational institutions; Employment; Industries; Standards; Testing; Usability; Academic-industry partnerships; teaching usability; usability testing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2013 IEEE International
  • Conference_Location
    Vancouver, BC
  • ISSN
    2158-091X
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4799-0010-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IPCC.2013.6623897
  • Filename
    6623897