Ray and Alexandra Branzan Albu were in Honolulu, HI, USA at the ED-Media World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunication. They presented their paper, “Teaching Human-Computer Interaction with Shakespeare Sonnets: a case study in interdisciplinary project-based learning.”
The conference listing and paper abstract can be found here: http://www.editlib.org/p/31610.
Abstract: This paper presents a case study illustrating a novel collaborative approach for designing and implementing interdisciplinary projects for undergraduate Human Computer Interaction courses. The starting point is to involve an academic client in the project development cycle, a client that comes from a different discipline than computer science and engineering. While industrial client-driven project specifications are rather commonplace in software engineering undergraduate curricula, the novelty of our approach consists in attributing the client-team a center-stage role in the project-related teaching process. The client team becomes thus a partner in teaching. The theme of the project deals with professional ereading techniques, which is represents a major paradigm change in Humanities Computing. The paper reports on the choice of the project theme, the structure and organization of the project, its final outcomes, and discusses the learning value of the project.