Experiences of Teaching Web/Mobile Development and HCI
A seminar to discuss the benefits and problems of using traditional and online teaching methods with Dr Mark Dunlop from University of Strathclyde.
Location: Room C/2.07, Queen's Buildings, School of Computer Science and Informatics.
Date: 8 November 2017, 14:00
The Chair for this seminar is Parisa Eslambolchilar.
Abstract
I teach a second year Human Computer Interaction class using a mix of problem-based learning and traditional lectures. I also teach third year web app and mobile app development using traditional lectures and online videos. In this seminar I will give examples of my experience to examine the benefits and problems of these teaching methods. I'll also touch briefly on in-class voting and assessment schemes to help give fast feedback to large classes.
Before attending you have 10 minutes of homework:
- Make a list of human emotions.
- Annotate this list with how you think that emotion would affect a user using a computer system.
- Annotate the list with how you change your behaviour if you detect that emotion in someone else.
Biography
Since 2000, Mark Dunlop has been a senior lecturer in computer science at Strathclyde. His research focuses on usability of mobile systems including mobile text entry, sensor driven interaction and evaluation of mobiles. His teaching is mainly in human computer interaction (HCI) and mobile/internet programming technologies. Prior to joining Strathclyde, Mark was a senior researcher at Risø Danish National Laboratory and a lecturer at Glasgow University. He completed his PhD in Multimedia Information Retrieval at Glasgow in 1991.
Mobile and wearable systems, such as smartphones, tablets and smartwatches pose new challenges for interactive system design and consequent evaluation: they have limited input/output facilities, are often used outside a standard work/task environment, have the potential to be used by an unusually wide spectrum of the population, are equipped with a wide range of sensors and are inherently mobile and personal - thus creating an exciting design space but making evaluation difficult.
Mark's research on mobiles spans the activities of the Mobiquitous Lab (which he leads), the Digital Health and Wellbeing Group and the i-Lab. He is a member and previous chair of The International Steering Committee of MobileHCI, has been a subcommittee chair for ACM CHI and is on the editorial boards for mobile-HCI related journals.
Mark is currently supervising Revathy Nayar's PhD on gaming to help speech therapy and Majed Al Khan's PhD on wearables to support people with Down's Syndrome.
Mark's teaching focuses on usability/HCI and mobile/internet programming. He is currently teaching User and Data Modelling, Web App Development and Mobile App Development in addition to supervising several final year undergraduate projects.
