Human Centered Design Education to System Engineers

Abstract

Information appliances are became popular in our everyday life. However, most of those appliances are not easy to use, because of the lack of the philosophy of human centered design. Human centered design of software design has more serious issue than hardware design. System engineer, software designer, should have to understand the importance of users point of view. Future University-Hakodate established April 2000 with “human values” as its basis is now trying to understand the importance of human centered design to students as a system engineer. To fulfil this goal, special curriculum and teaching systems are provided such as collaborate teaching by the faculties of three deferent field, computer science, cognitive science and product design. This system is getting some effect on students but also having some difficulty, teaching both computer science and human factor to a same student at a time, because computer is always rigid and human factor is always flexible and no correct answer.