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The following are referred to as "HCI-centric" clusters to allow for cross-cutting ideas but with a focus on users. These clusters are currently made up of existing courses, but could trigger ideas for new courses. Please feel free to change or add anything as these are very rough ideas.

Note: the clusters on Collaboration++ and Active Learning look more like what I had envisioned clusters being. The others are much more diffuse-- as a rule of thumb, I think of a cluster as something where you take all of the designated courses in order to become an "expert" in that cluster. -- PaulResnick - 03 Dec 2005

HCI-Centric Clusters

Human-Information Interaction (HII)

This cluster focuses on how "human beings interact with, relate to, and process information regardless of the medium connecting the two" (Lucas, 2000). Emphasis is placed on the theory and evaluation of interactions with information and systems.

• SI 501 Use of Information
• SI 503 Search and Retrieval
• SI 551 Information-Seeking Behavior
• SI 622 Evaluation of Systems and Services
• SI 688 Fundamentals of Human Behavior
• SI 566 Design and Practice of Social Science Research
• SI 623 Outcome-based Evaluation of Programs and Services
• Architecture 531: Newtworked Cities

Design and Implementation of Usable Systems (DIUS)

This cluster focuses on building usable and enjoyable information systems

• SI 682 User Interface Design
• SI 658 Information Architecture
• SI 618 User-Interface Design Studio
• SI 649 Information Visualization
• SI 557 Visual Persuasion
• SI 553 Multimedia Production
• SI 654 Database Application Design
• SI 661 Natural Language Processing
• SI 539 Design of Complex Web Sites

Course in Graphic Design??

Course in User Experience/Affective Design??

Course in UbiComp^??

Collaboration++

This cluster focuses on the theory and practice of human-human collaboration across variables such as time, space, and culture.

• SI 689 Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
• SI 670 Information in Organizations
• SI 684 eCommunities: Analysis and Design of Online Interaction Environments

Please see also the cluster on Social Computing, which we might want to merge with this cluster idea.

Active Learning

This cluster focuses on building and evaluating instructional mechanisms for effective learning

• SI 549 Learning Technologies Across the Content Areas
• SI 601 Learning to Teach
• SI 638 Principles of Software Design for Learning
• Psychology 958: Learning in Museums
• Engineering 580: Teaching Engineering

Social Computing

See separate page on Social Computing

Open Source Web Application Development

See separate page on Open Source Web Application Development
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