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Title

Transitions in design education: a comparative study of Australian and Japanese interaction design education

Author(s)

Wang, Stephen Jia;  Tamada, Toshiro

Abstract

With ever-increasing pressure from technological and social changes to teach competence in interaction design, new teaching methods and syllabuses need to be explored. This study presents an approach to developing a syllabus that is focused on the cultural characteristics in interaction design. This study hypothesises that an international cross-cultural society will be the next shift to appear in the social structure. Working with this hypothesis, we applied comparative study methods to explore an Australian and Japanese interaction design educational practice and to analyse the theory and practice underpinning the current development of interaction design education. Most importantly, this study takes into account the cultural contexts that affect the interaction design characteristics in these two countries. Based on these findings, a design model sensitive to the cultural context in interaction design is proposed, which reflects the progressive transitions in interaction design education across these two countries.

Publication type

Conference paper

Research centre

Swinburne University of Technology

Source

Proceedings of the Cumulus 38° South Conference: Hemispheric Shifts Across Learning, Teaching and Research, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 12-14 November 2009 / Liam Fennessy, Russell Kerr, Gavin Melles, Christine Thong and Emily Wright (eds.)

Publication year

2009

Keyword(s)

Australia;  Design education;  Educational practice;  Interaction design;  Japan;  Pedagogy

Publisher

Swinburne University of Technology and RMIT University

ISBN

9781921426520, 1921426527

Publisher URL

http://ocs.sfu.ca/cumulus/index.php/cumulus09/swinrmit/paper/view/310

Copyright

Proceedings copyright © 2009 Swinburne University of Technology and RMIT University. This paper copyright © 2009 Stephen Jia Wang and Toshiro Tamada. The authors assign to Swinburne University of Technology and RMIT University a non-exclusive licence to publish this paper in the Proceedings of the Cumulus 38° South Conference. Permission for limited re-use is provided under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/au/).

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