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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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The differing profiles of the human-computer interaction professional : perceptions of practice, cognitive preferences and the impact on HCI education

Austin, Ann January 2018 (has links)
At a time when there is increasing demand for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) skills, it becomes increasingly important that the curriculum is effective and relevant. This research aims to provide a better understanding of the professionals who work in the field of HCI. It extends previous studies by examining the different roles of HCI professionals in order to identify differences regarding cognitive preferences, background, what is valued, concerns and issues, and the potential impact of these upon curriculum design and delivery within the Higher Education sector. This study also extends technological frames theory by applying the framework to HCI practice. The literature review covers the history of HCI, the position of HCI within the software development lifecycle, HCI academic research and its relationship to practice, HCI practice and HCI education. It then discusses cognitive style research and the Cognitive Styles Index (CSI) and the Object-Spatial Imagery and Verbal Questionnaire (OSIVQ), concluding with the social construction of technology and technological frames. This study follows a mixed methods approach adopting a pragmatic epistemological stance, collecting data by means of a survey which gathered demographic data and cognitive profiles. These were complemented by interviews which were analysed using the Template Analysis approach. iv Both the quantitative and the qualitative data highlight a number of differences between the roles of the professionals, and in particular between those who educate and those who are involved in practice. The interview findings also highlight inconsistences in what is valued, and indicate that HCI is not well understood outside of the HCI community. It appears that a dominant technological frame has not yet been achieved in the field of HCI, with particular incongruences noted between academia and practice. In particular, the interviews confirm the findings of the literature that the curriculum may not be meeting the needs of practice, and that there still exists a lack of consensus regarding terminology and processes. The discussion moves on to consider the implications for the curriculum discussing the need for more input from practice when designing the curriculum, the advantages of embedding HCI skills within the curriculum in order to address graduate attributes, and the need to be aware of role differences in order to offer appropriate academic advice to students.
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Machines, Statues, and People: Strategies for Promoting RSI Awareness in Computing Curricula

Heintzelman, Matt, Pfeiffer, Phil 01 January 1997 (has links)
No description available.
3

Computer Science (1978) Enrollment, Faculty, and Recruiting

Bailes, Gordon L., Countermine, Terry A. 01 June 1979 (has links)
No description available.
4

Dealing With Independent Studies Courses—an Effective Methodology

Bailes, Gordon, Sayer, Jerry 01 December 1986 (has links)
Independent studies courses can be an effective means of providing the flexibility for a serious student with a well-planned career path to tailor his or her curriculum to meet the special requirements of the career plan, and to permit the students to experience and learn about subjects for which there is insufficient demand or resources to offer a regular course. The potential for abuse of this course is high as we found at East Tennessee State University. In addressing this issue, we found that we were also able to strengthen the written and oral communications skills which are so important to today's computing professionals. This paper describes the experiences we have had and the solution we discovered.
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Implementing an IT Concentration in a CS Department: Content, Rationale, and Initial Impact

Countermine, Terry, Pfeiffer, Phil 01 January 2000 (has links)
The increasing use of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software has created a demand for information technology (IT) professionals, people that build and manage systems assembled from COTS components. The East Tennessee State University Dept. of Computer Information Systems Fall 1999 program of study for training IT professionals is presented. This IT concentration differs from other concentrations in four key ways: it emphasizes Visual Basic instead of C++; it emphasizes Web, database and networking applications instead of system software; it puts more emphasis on human issue in computing, ethics, computer-assisted instruction, and systems analysis and specification; and it deemphasizes science and math.
6

Perspectives on Professionalism in Computing

Impagliazzo, John, Bowyer, Kevin, Engel, Gerald L., Gotterbarn, Don, Greening, Tony, Lee, John A.N. 01 January 2000 (has links)
Many computing people call themselves professionals without the necessary validation or credentials that other professional groups possess. Perhaps computing needs greater maturity to develop standards of best practices. Even defining the meaning of a computing profession may be difficult. This panel will explore perspectives on these and related issues.
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New Metrics for Assessing Aspect Coupling

Bennett, Brian T., Mitropoulos, Frank J. 07 July 2016 (has links)
Previous studies provided metrics to show different types of aspect coupling. However, no existing metric adequately described coupling in a way that combined the invocation of aspect advices, aspect methods, and class methods. This study introduces an invocation coupling framework that defines method-method, advice-method, and advice-advice coupling. This new framework is the basis for two new aspect coupling metrics-interference potential (IP) and interference causality potential (ICP)-to account for each type of invocation coupling. The work validates these metrics by analyzing two AspectJ programs: AspectTetris and AJHotDraw. Two versions of each program, an unmodified version and a version containing a SeedAspect designed to increase interactions, were tested. Findings suggest that low metric values are likely since most modules have few interactions. Abnormally high values indicate high coupling and an increased risk for aspect interference due to the complex interactions. Introducing the SeedAspect caused a small shift in IP, but a significant shift in ICP. Thus, ICP was most successful at detecting aspect interference risk due to complex interactions.
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Perfection Is Not 'Good Enough': Beyond Software Development

Gotterbarn, Don 01 December 2010 (has links)
No description available.
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ICT Governance and What to Do About the Toothless Tiger(s): Professional Organizations and Codes of Ethics

Gotterbarn, Don 01 December 2009 (has links)
ICT has had numerous unfortunate incidents in planning, development, and delivery. A typical response to these incidents is to both complain about the toothless tiger of unenforced and unenforceable technical and professional standards and to also advocate the development and implementation of strong government regulations - licensing and legislation. These regulations constitute one form of what has been called "ICT governance". Unfortunately, there are significant limitations to both the constraining regulations approach and the vague toothless tiger approach to ICT governance. There is an approach to ICT governance which takes advantage of and strengthens some roles of professional organisations and avoids the dangers of giving government malformed regulatory teeth which limit the positive potentials of ICT and introduce overt harms. The purpose of this paper is to define strategies for professional organisations to meet their responsibilities to the ICT profession and ICT professional; a strategy which moves toward regulation without curtailing ICT potential with ineffective sanctions. Professional organisations need a strategy for reducing negative incidents and improving professional responsibility without simply introducing sanctions on a narrow range of practitioners who happen to be members of that organisation. There are ways in which the toothless tiger(s) can have a significant positive influence.
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Tutorial: Using the Software Engineering Code of Ethics in Professional Computing Issues

Gotterbarn, Don, Miller, Keith 19 September 2008 (has links)
No description available.

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