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| Title | Using An Hci Perspective To Encourage Young Students To Pursue Computer Science And Engineering Careers: The “Envisioning The Digital City”Workshop |
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| ID_Doc | 60477 |
| Authors | Díaz P.; Onorati T.; Montero Á. |
| Year | 2024 |
| Published | Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 14535 LNCS |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61688-4_23 |
| Abstract | In recent decades, the demand for STEM professionals has increased, and consequently, the effort of educational institutions to sponsor their STEM degrees. In the context of a university program promoting STEM careers among high-school students, we designed a workshop for middle and high-school students to show them a different perspective of computing as a pragmatic, social, and people-centered profession. We focus on teaching basic concepts of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) as part of a problem-solving strategy to offer creative solutions to real problems of real people. The workshop proposes a list of well-known problems in urban environments, like social integration, elderly loneliness, or recycling, and asks the students to solve them envisioning an innovative mobile app by following a design thinking approach and applying several design artifacts, like scenario boards, user personas, thematic cards, and paper-based sketches. The results show that with little or no experience in designing and programming, participants engage in fruitful brainstorming sessions, offer creative solutions, and even implement low-level prototypes. © IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2024. |
| Author Keywords | Computer Science & Engineering; Design Thinking; Design Workshop; STEM |
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