Saturday, July 07, 2007

Pics takne during the HCI course

I have started uploading the pics taken during the HCI course at IIT Mumbai.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kumarsatishn/sets/72157600640966074/

3 comments:

Vivek Pohre said...

Hi ...
I found your blog in google search. Thanks for keeping such info online. It helps.

I am thinking of doing the HCI course this season in IIT Mumbai. Can you share your experience in this regard?

Did the course add anything to your knowledge?
Do you need to do some prior studies before attending such course?
Tell me your overall experience.

Thanks in advance,
Vivek
http://www.vivekpohre.com
vivek.pohre@gmail.com

Satish Kumar N said...

This is a 2 week course and is open for all professionals (most of them who attended were from S/W industry background).
Answering your specific questions
Did the course add anything to your knowledge?
- Yes it definitely increased the awareness towards HCI and how important it is, the examples that were provided during the course adds more insight to this, there are lot of practical stuffs you do which ensures that what you learn stays with you even after the course and not just during the course.
Basically the group consists of anywhere between 20-25 people and is divided as 4-5 groups and each group gets a leader nominated and we have to choose one particular project to do and we go through the entire HCI processes to complete it.
This is basically kind of awareness, we cannot be masters after completing it. Professor Joshi's brother also runs a course which would be helpful

Do you need to do some prior studies before attending such course?
- Not really, not everyone in the group had any exposure but some awareness before coming to the course would definitely help, also setting your expectations before hand always helps.

You can also contact my friend Ulhas Anand who is the an avid HCI guy and has been in the field for long and attended the course along with me, his email id is ullaspa@gmail.com

You can also subscribe to hciidc@yahoogroups.com which is owned by Prof. Anirudh Joshi which definitely gives you more insight.

Hope this helps.

Vivek Pohre said...

Great thanks for the speedy reply.
I am a member of hiidc already and got all these threads from there.

So, just to be curious, did your company fund this course or you did it from your own pocket?

Thanks for the email id of Ullas. I would certainly ask his thoughts too.

Thanks again,
Vivek