An Undergraduate Teaching Experience in HCI at the University of Lleida

Abstract

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Spanish university is a recent discipline. Moreover, its interdisciplinary nature and underdevelopment of teaching resources makes assimilation by students difficult. In this paper we present an educational experience based on a constructivist learning model of problem solving methodology it is put into practice in the subject of Introduction to HCI (INHCI), a compulsory course that currently forms part of the HCI curricula at the University of Lleida (Spain). The method is based on the resolution of real problems using the user centred proces