2023
Gray, Colin M; MacDonald, Craig M; Lallemand, Carine; Oleson, Alannah; Carter, Anna R L; St-Cyr, Olivier; Pitt, Caroline
EduCHI 2023: 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23), 2023.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education
@inproceedings{Gray2023-cm,
title = {EduCHI 2023: 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education},
author = {Colin M Gray and Craig M MacDonald and Carine Lallemand and Alannah Oleson and Anna R L Carter and Olivier St-Cyr and Caroline Pitt},
url = {https://colingray.me/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/2023_Grayetal_CHI_EduCHI.pdf
http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573790},
doi = {10.1145/3544549.3573790},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-04-01},
urldate = {2023-04-01},
booktitle = {Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors
in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23)},
abstract = {EduCHI 2023 will bring together an international community of
scholars, practitioners, and researchers to shape the future of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education. Held as part of the
CHI 2023 conference, the one-day symposium will feature
interactive discussions about HCI educational research,
pedagogical innovations, teaching practices, and current and
future challenges facing HCI educators. In addition to providing
a platform to share pedagogical strategies and continue to build
a scholarly knowledge base for HCI education, EduCHI 2023 will
also provide opportunities for HCI educators to learn new
instructional strategies and deepen their pedagogical knowledge.},
keywords = {Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
scholars, practitioners, and researchers to shape the future of
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education. Held as part of the
CHI 2023 conference, the one-day symposium will feature
interactive discussions about HCI educational research,
pedagogical innovations, teaching practices, and current and
future challenges facing HCI educators. In addition to providing
a platform to share pedagogical strategies and continue to build
a scholarly knowledge base for HCI education, EduCHI 2023 will
also provide opportunities for HCI educators to learn new
instructional strategies and deepen their pedagogical knowledge.
2022
Gray, Colin M; Liu, Wei; Xin, Xin; Chin, Daniel; Marks, Jacqueline; Bunting, Sadie; Anglin, Jerry; Hutzel, Becky; Kokate, Samruddhi; Yang, Yushu
Defamiliarization and Intercultural Learning in Cross-Cultural HCI Education Proceedings Article
In: EduCHI'22: 4th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, 2022.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, Design Knowledge, Design Methods, Design Theory, HCI Education, UX Knowledge
@inproceedings{Gray2022-es,
title = {Defamiliarization and Intercultural Learning in Cross-Cultural HCI Education},
author = {Colin M Gray and Wei Liu and Xin Xin and Daniel Chin and Jacqueline Marks and Sadie Bunting and Jerry Anglin and Becky Hutzel and Samruddhi Kokate and Yushu Yang},
url = {https://colingray.me/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2022_Grayetal_EduCHI_DefamiliarizationInterculturalLearning.pdf},
year = {2022},
date = {2022-04-01},
urldate = {2022-04-01},
booktitle = {EduCHI'22: 4th Annual Symposium on HCI Education},
abstract = {HCI and UX work is increasingly global, and students have the
potential to benefit from building their globalization
competence. However, little research has described the unique
opportunities and challenges of intercultural project work in
the context of HCI education, including the ways in which design
knowledge is leveraged in a cross-cultural setting. In this
research paper, we describe the experiences of a Collaborative
Online International Learning (COIL) project team with
participants from China and the United States as they worked to
identify design opportunities to create ``charmful''
semi-autonomous driving experiences for the Chinese market.
Through our analysis of focus groups, synchronous group
meetings, and artifacts created over one academic semester, we
describe how students engaged design knowledge through the lens
of culture and identify strategies that the teams used to
constructively defamiliarize their understanding of the design
context and potential outcomes. We conclude with opportunities
and challenges in coordinating cross-cultural design work and
describe new ways in which defamiliarization might be a
productive lens to acknowledge and build upon cultural
knowledge.},
keywords = {Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, Design Knowledge, Design Methods, Design Theory, HCI Education, UX Knowledge},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
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potential to benefit from building their globalization
competence. However, little research has described the unique
opportunities and challenges of intercultural project work in
the context of HCI education, including the ways in which design
knowledge is leveraged in a cross-cultural setting. In this
research paper, we describe the experiences of a Collaborative
Online International Learning (COIL) project team with
participants from China and the United States as they worked to
identify design opportunities to create ``charmful''
semi-autonomous driving experiences for the Chinese market.
Through our analysis of focus groups, synchronous group
meetings, and artifacts created over one academic semester, we
describe how students engaged design knowledge through the lens
of culture and identify strategies that the teams used to
constructively defamiliarize their understanding of the design
context and potential outcomes. We conclude with opportunities
and challenges in coordinating cross-cultural design work and
describe new ways in which defamiliarization might be a
productive lens to acknowledge and build upon cultural
knowledge.
2021
Di, Zhu; Gray, Colin M; Toombs, Austin L; Liu, Wei
Building a Cross-Cultural UX Design Dual Degree Proceedings Article
In: IASDR 2021: The Ninth Congress of the International Association of Societies of Design Research, 2021.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, HCI Education, Studio Pedagogy, UX Knowledge
@inproceedings{Di2021-wv,
title = {Building a Cross-Cultural UX Design Dual Degree},
author = {Zhu Di and Colin M Gray and Austin L Toombs and Wei Liu},
url = {https://colingray.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021_Dietal_IASDR_CrossCulturalUXDesignDualDegree.pdf},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-12-01},
urldate = {2021-12-01},
booktitle = {IASDR 2021: The Ninth Congress of the International
Association of Societies of Design Research},
abstract = {User Experience (UX) design has expanded rapidly across a range of industry and educational contexts in the last decade. While the core knowledge and “center” of UX is still emergent and contested, new educational programs to train the next generation of UX designers have begun to outline pedagogical practices and concepts that have relevance to the present and future of UX as a discipline. In this paper, we take a broad view of UX preparation, building on a case study of a global dual degree partnership between programs in the United States and China. We recount our individual experiences of building new programs in UX at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and the process of mapping our curricula to offer a bidirectional dual degree program that launched in 2019.},
keywords = {Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, HCI Education, Studio Pedagogy, UX Knowledge},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
Liu, Wei; Lee, Kun-Pyo; Gray, Colin M; Toombs, Austin L; Chen, Kuo-Hsiang; Leifer, Larry
Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning in UX Design: A Program Review and AR Case Studies Journal Article
In: Äpplied Sciences, vol. 11, no. 22, pp. 10648, 2021.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, UX Knowledge
@article{Liu2021-szb,
title = {Transdisciplinary Teaching and Learning in UX Design: A Program Review and AR Case Studies},
author = {Wei Liu and Kun-Pyo Lee and Colin M Gray and Austin L Toombs and Kuo-Hsiang Chen and Larry Leifer},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci},
doi = {10.3390/app112210648},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-11-01},
urldate = {2021-11-01},
journal = {Äpplied Sciences},
volume = {11},
number = {22},
pages = {10648},
abstract = {Today's user experience (UX) educators and designers can no
longer just focus on creat- ing more usable systems, but must
also rise to the level of strategists, using design thinking and
human--computer interaction (HCI) solutions to improve academic
and business outcomes. Both psychological, designer, and
engineering approaches are adopted in this study. An invited
program review committee met to review progress of the UX program
at the Beijing Normal University (BNUX). They considered issues
and challenges facing the program today, and the steps that it
could make to develop further. During a recent augmented reality
(AR) project on designing future life experience on smart home
and wearables, several experiential concepts and prototypes were
generated to demonstrate HCI and UX research directions. The
committee was impressed by BNUX with its energy, enthusiasm, and
a sense of purpose on practicing transdisciplinary teaching and
learning activities. Recommendations on the current organization
of education, the relation between project-based learning and
research, and opportunities for exposure and visibility are
provided.},
keywords = {Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, UX Knowledge},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
longer just focus on creat- ing more usable systems, but must
also rise to the level of strategists, using design thinking and
human--computer interaction (HCI) solutions to improve academic
and business outcomes. Both psychological, designer, and
engineering approaches are adopted in this study. An invited
program review committee met to review progress of the UX program
at the Beijing Normal University (BNUX). They considered issues
and challenges facing the program today, and the steps that it
could make to develop further. During a recent augmented reality
(AR) project on designing future life experience on smart home
and wearables, several experiential concepts and prototypes were
generated to demonstrate HCI and UX research directions. The
committee was impressed by BNUX with its energy, enthusiasm, and
a sense of purpose on practicing transdisciplinary teaching and
learning activities. Recommendations on the current organization
of education, the relation between project-based learning and
research, and opportunities for exposure and visibility are
provided.
Li, Ziqing; Gray, Colin M; Toombs, Austin L; McDonald, Kevin; Marinovic, Lukas; Liu, Wei
Cross-Cultural UX Pedagogy: A China–US Case Study Proceedings Article
In: LearnxDesign: The 6th International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Jinan, China, 2021.
Abstract | Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, Instructional Design, Transdisciplinary Education
@inproceedings{Li2021-pm,
title = {Cross-Cultural UX Pedagogy: A China–US Case Study},
author = {Ziqing Li and Colin M Gray and Austin L Toombs and Kevin McDonald and Lukas Marinovic and Wei Liu},
url = {https://colingray.me/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/2021_Lietal_LxD_CrossCulturalUXPedagogy.pdf},
year = {2021},
date = {2021-09-01},
urldate = {2021-09-01},
booktitle = {LearnxDesign: The 6th International Conference for Design
Education Researchers},
address = {Jinan, China},
institution = {Shandong University of Art and Design},
abstract = {The recent emergence of new undergraduate and graduate design
programs with a focus specific to User Experience (UX) offers
new opportunities to engage with the complexity of these
educational practices. In this paper, we report on a series of
ten interviews with students and faculty to describe
cross-cultural connections between two UX-focused programs,
one in China and one in the United States. Our study includes
the perspectives of students who engaged in intercultural UX
experiences, as well as the perspectives of the faculty who
designed those student experiences through an intercultural
partnership. We report on how each program was created,
developed, and iterated upon, describing program goals and
student experiences across both pro-grams from student and
instructor perspectives. We demonstrate the complexity of UX
educational experiences on an international scale, concluding
with opportunities for intercultural engagement and the
potential for links among education, profession, culture, and
pedagogy.},
keywords = {Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, Instructional Design, Transdisciplinary Education},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}
programs with a focus specific to User Experience (UX) offers
new opportunities to engage with the complexity of these
educational practices. In this paper, we report on a series of
ten interviews with students and faculty to describe
cross-cultural connections between two UX-focused programs,
one in China and one in the United States. Our study includes
the perspectives of students who engaged in intercultural UX
experiences, as well as the perspectives of the faculty who
designed those student experiences through an intercultural
partnership. We report on how each program was created,
developed, and iterated upon, describing program goals and
student experiences across both pro-grams from student and
instructor perspectives. We demonstrate the complexity of UX
educational experiences on an international scale, concluding
with opportunities for intercultural engagement and the
potential for links among education, profession, culture, and
pedagogy.
2019
Gray, Colin M; Toombs, Austin L; Owczarzak, Marlo; Watkins, Christopher
Digital civics goes abroad Journal Article
In: Interactions, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 74-77, 2019, ISSN: 1072-5520.
Links | BibTeX | Tags: Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, Digital Civics, HCI Education, UX Knowledge
@article{Gray2019-xd,
title = {Digital civics goes abroad},
author = {Colin M Gray and Austin L Toombs and Marlo Owczarzak and Christopher Watkins},
url = {https://colingray.me/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2019_GrayToombsOwczarzakWatkins_Interactions_DigitalCivics.pdf
https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3314846.3301661},
doi = {10.1145/3301661},
issn = {1072-5520},
year = {2019},
date = {2019-01-01},
urldate = {2019-01-01},
journal = {Interactions},
volume = {26},
number = {2},
pages = {74-77},
keywords = {Cross-Cultural Education, Design Education, Digital Civics, HCI Education, UX Knowledge},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}