Co-aligning user-centered design and software engineering courses: A case study

Alena Suvorova, Ilya Musabirov, Denis Bulygin, Rustem Faidrakhmanov

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Abstract

Introducing students to different perspectives and roles in the development process allows them to engage in the work of cross-disciplinary diverse teams and even can enable them to change roles in designer-developer interactions. Industry work often places recent graduates in preexisting polarized relationship dynamics between different participants in the design and development process. This paper describes a two-stage attempt at co-alignment of software engineering and user-centered design courses: from full alignment with topic intersections and joint project to partial alignment through separate activities. We discuss challenges of both ways including time or technical constraints, increased effort from the program developers and instructors, students' and instructors' frustrations. We finalize by describing benefits of providing students with early experience identifying trade-offs between design requirements and architecture and opportunities for diverse group with different background in computer science.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages1305
Number of pages1
ISBN (Electronic)9781450394338
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2023
Event54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2023 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 15 Mar 202318 Mar 2023

Publication series

NameSIGCSE 2023 - Proceedings of the 54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education
Volume2

Conference

Conference54th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE 2023
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period15/03/2318/03/23

Bibliographical note

Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository ‘You share, we take care!’ – Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.

Keywords

  • curriculum
  • information systems
  • user-centered design
  • workshop

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