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I came across something that might be of interest. The association for
computing machinery special interest group on human computer
interaction <breath> has suggested curricula for four different
courses in human-computer interaction.
You can anonymous ftp them from <ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu>
[128.146.8.52] in either ASCII or RTF formats. The right directory
once you're there is /pub/hci/CDG. Below is the readme file explaining
the contents. There seems to be about 150 pages of material.
Stuart
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Stuart A. Selber
Department of English
Clemson University 803-656-1677 (voice)
Strode Tower, Box 341503 803-656-1345 (fax)
Clemson, SC 29634-1503 sselber -at- hubcap -dot- clemson -dot- edu
> ******************
> The ACM SIGCHI Curricula for Human-Computer Interaction
> has been made available by ACM SIGCHI in RTF (Rich Text Format)
> through the efforts of Bill Hefley (Production Editor),
> and in plain text format through the efforts of Gary Perlman.
> For easier transport to different systems (i.e., DOS)
> the original file names have been shortened:
> ORIGINAL NAME NEW NAME PARTS
> cdgFrontMatter.rtf front.rtf title page and copyright
> cdgreportTOC.rtf contents.rtf table of contents
> cdgpreface.rtf preface.rtf preface
> cdgreport.rtf report.rtf chapters 1-5
> cdgappendices.rtf append0.rtf references and appendices A and B
> cdgappendices1.rtf append1.rtf appendix C
> cdgappendices2.rtf append2.rtf appendix D
> cdgappendices3.rtf append3.rtf appendices E and F
> To read the RTF files:
> (1) get into a post-1992 version of MS-Word on the Mac or PC.
> (2) choose "open file" and select RTF as the file format.
> (3) select the file to open; you may be asked to confirm conversion.
> (4) the Word document should now be on your screen.
> (DOS/Windows versions may not display the graphics)
> The above RTF files were read into MS Word, exported as text,
> and reformatted for online access as plain ASCII text files.
> All the text files end in a .txt suffix and are split according
> to the chapter numbers or appendix letters.
> Inside the text files, sections in the table of contents (in cdg0.txt)
> are preceded by a % sign at the start of lines; this is to aid search.
> cdg0.txt title page, detailed contents, preface
> cdg1.txt CHAPTER 1: Introduction
> cdg2.txt CHAPTER 2: Human-Computer Interaction
> cdg3.txt CHAPTER 3: Courses in HCI
> cdg4.txt CHAPTER 4: HCI Curriculum Designs
> cdg5.txt CHAPTER 5: Issues Raised By Our Recommendations
> cdgA.txt APPENDIX A: Resources for Human-Computer Interaction
> cdgB.txt APPENDIX B: An Information Systems Curriculum in HCI
> cdgC.txt APPENDIX C: A Computer Science Undergraduate Specialization
> cdgD.txt APPENDIX D: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Specialization
> cdgE.txt APPENDIX E: Example Course Taught in HCI
> cdgF.txt APPENDIX F: Case Studies in Human-Computer Interaction
