Gerrit van der Veer

Although, for financial reasons, he was not able to attend High School, he passed a state high school exam (HBS-B) in 1960, with average grade 8.5 (A+), which allowed him entrance to the Vrije Universiteit. From 1961-1965 he was research assistant at the department of Cognitive Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit, teaching (research methods, statistics, computer programming), developing computer programs for statistical techniques, methodological support for researchers, and initiating a research program in computer simulation of cognitive psychological processes.

In 1966, after finishing his MSc thesis on “Mathematical learning models as tools for computer assisted instruction” he became research associate (assistant professor).

In the early '80s, he additionally became the de facto leader of the project "Learning and teaching with computers in education”. In the ‘80s he regularly taught MSc courses on human computer interaction and on user interface design in Cluj Napoca, Romania (Babes-Bolyai University department of Psychology, and technical University department of Computer Science).

From April 1, 1988, till July 1, 1991, he held a double tenure of university lecturer and senior researcher at both the departments of Cognitive Psychology and of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam. He specialized on individual differences in cognitive functions and their ergonomic aspects, and on cognitive aspects of human computer interaction and ergonomic aspects of computers in education.

In 1990 he defended his PhD thesis on "Human-computer interaction - learning, individual differences, and design recommendations". July 1, 1991, he started at the Technical University of Twente at the department of Ergonomics. During five year he held a double tenure of head of Department of Cognitive Ergonomics of the Technical University Twente and Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit of Amsterdam.

In the 90’s he regularly taught MSc courses on human computer interaction and on user interface design in Sienna University, Italy, department of communication sciences. On request he developed courses and taught in Granada University department of Psychology, University of Lleida department of Informatics and Industrial Engineering, and University of the Bask Country, San Sebastian, Laboratory of Human-Computer Interaction (all in Spain). He was instrumental in the development of the Spanish coordination body in this domain (AIPO).

From 1998 till 2005 he was full time employed at the Vrije Universiteit, head of department of a multidisciplinary group of researchers, Ph.D. students, and teachers in the domain of multidisciplinary design of interactive systems. He developed a bachelor and master curriculum “Multimedia and Culture”, being one of two sub-directions in the Bachelor and Masters in Information Sciences. The group included (June 2004) the following disciplines:

• A Graphics designer
• A Music and sound designer
• An expert in haptic and tactile devices
• A Psycho-linguist
• A Cognitive Psychologists
• An Organizational Psychologist
• A Software Engineer
• A Cognitive Ergonomist

Mid 2004 he was appointed full professor in Interaction Design, in the same Department. He additionally taught in the post-academic European Masters on Ergonomics (organized by the faculty of Movement Sciences), in the Masters of Beta-Communication at the Vrije Universiteit. In December, 2005 he reached the age of 65, which, in the Netherlands at that time resulted in forced retirement. Though the department originally intended to prolong the appointment for 5 years and to continue offering Multimedia and Culture, politics changed the plans. His appointment at the Vrije Universiteit ended December, 2007. From December, 2007 he is emeritus professor at the Vrije Universiteit, originally still supervising PhD students and Multimedia and Culture Masters students.

In May, 2006 he took an additional position as full professor and head of department of Human, Computer, Society at the Dutch Open University, Faculty of Computer Science. He developed on-line courses User Interface Design, Visual Design, and Task Modeling, and the interactive course Human Information Processing, he co-authored the new interactive course on Web Culture, he was Examiner for the Bachelor Project Informatics. Since 2015 he has been a guest professor in this university, only supervising PhD students at this university. He contributed to the original courses for the Dutch and British Open University on human-computer interaction and on a Dutch television program on this subject. He was the external referent responsible for the complete revised content of the Open University course on Human Computer Interaction and contributed to a planned revision of the course on Interactive Multimedia.

Contact: gerrit@acm.org

Website: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~gerrit/

Abstracts

Learning and Teaching HCI in a fast-moving World

In the first section we briefly sketch the beginning of HCI education and the role of international organizations in this. Section 2 provides a sketch of the discipline of HCI design, and Section 3 we refer to the professional competence definition that is the base of current curriculum guidelines. Section 4 focusses what HCI requires about human information processing, and section 5 proposes a class- and course-structure and related logistics that will work for most courses in HCI in different cultures and context of learning. Section 6 and 7, respectively, show in dept possibilities on courses in Service Design and in Design for Art and Culture, while section 8 illustrates what will be relevant in a course on basic research methods for HCI.

Adult Students Become Professionals - Teaching or Learning – What’s in a Name?

Design-related courses in multiple cultures. We explain how students should be treated as adults with their own learning goals and their own competence of assessing the level of professionalism reached. We analyse our approach in relation to the ACM-IEEE CC2020 Curriculum Guidelines. Finally, we provide an example of our teaching approach during lock-down.Keywords: Interaction design · Education · Adult learning · Blended learning

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Published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022 C. Ardito et al. (Eds.): INTERACT 2021, LNCS 13198, pp. 236–247, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98388-8_21