Degrees in human-computer interaction: a common name is emerging and opportunities are expanding

Abstract

In 1996 1 wrote an article for the SIGCH1 Bulletin discussing progress in HCI education (Sears, 1996). As part of that article, I included the results of a email survey. The goal was to identify where students could earn degrees in human-computer interaction. This was fundamentally different from the HCI Education Survey which gathered a much broader variety of information about degrees, courses, concentrations, and faculty (http:// www.acm.org/sigchi/educhi/). One of the clearest results at the time was that no common name existed for the degree that spanned a variety of disciplines. As a result, any degree that claimed to focus on human-computer interaction was included in the 1996 article.