Present: Jim Oliver, ChiuShui Chan, Doug Gentile, Jeremiah Still, Julie Dickerson, and Steven Herrnstadt, Pam Shill
Jeremiah announced that VRAC and Jim Oliver were mentioned in Don Norman’s new book, along with pictures of the C6. He also reported that the students are busy with projects to submit to the CHI Conference. The student group is in the process of creating a constitution for the student group using GPSS guidelines.
The committee discussed changes to the curriculum proposal that were discussed at the HCI Retreat. Flexibility of the program was discussed, determining that the four course requirement for MS students and the six course requirement for PhD students will still give students flexibility in the courses that they choose for their POS. It was determined that courses in the Design category were lacking. It would be good if the program could develop a design process course. Jim Oliver and Julie Dickerson will look into engineering design courses to see if there are any that might apply to our program. Steve recommended that ArtIS 508 Computer Aided Visualization is added to the Implementation category. It was also suggested that faculty should be asked to recommend courses in each of the four areas. Further discussion of the HCI Seminar is needed. The curriculum discussion will continue at the next meeting.
The meeting ended before the committee was able to discuss the Fall 2008 applicants and the HCI Faculty Retreat recap.
The next meeting will be on Wednesday, February 13 at 9 am in the VRAC Conference Room.
Submitted by Pam Shill