Faculty and students from Purdue Polytechnic made a significant impact at the 7th annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Education, or EduCHI, held from July 30 to August 1. The Polytechnic contingent played a leading role in the event, with nine individuals contributing as organizers, workshop leaders and research presenters.
Polytechnic faculty and students made up a substantial portion of the roughly 50 experts in attendance.
Paul Parsons, associate professor in the School of Applied and Creative Computing, served as a general co-chair for the symposium. He also co-authored three papers presented at the event, covering innovative pedagogical strategies such as using the "premortem" technique to help students anticipate project failure, using metaphors to teach design through uncertainty, and developing new frameworks for citing AI-generated content in student work.
The Polytechnic’s presence included several other faculty and student researchers. Master’s student Santhoshi Ramanathan presented research on the integration of digital accessibility in undergraduate User Experience (UX) programs, a paper co-authored with assistant professor Rua M. Williams.
Other presented research with Purdue Polytechnic authors included a paper on teaching with ambiguity co-authored by assistant professor Anastasia K. Ostrowski, and a paper on student-AI collaboration co-authored by Ph.D. students Prakash Chandra Shukla, Suchismita Naik, and Ike Obi, along with Master’s student Jessica Backus and several faculty members. Shukla also chaired a pedagogy workshop at the conference.
The EduCHI symposium is a prestigious international venue for innovators in HCI education to share novel teaching methods, curriculum designs, and pedagogical reflections. Purdue Polytechnic's extensive participation highlights its role at the forefront of shaping how HCI is taught to the next generation of designers and technologists.
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