Chat GPT Wrote It: What HCI Educators Can Learn from their Students?

Marcin Sikorski

doi:10.62036/isd.2024.25

Chat GPT Wrote It: What HCI Educators Can Learn from their Students?

Abstract

Recently students, teachers, and researchers equally have become impressed by Generative AI (GenAI) tools, with ChatGPT at the top. However, numerous concerns about the GenAI-related threats to academic integrity and the validity of learning outcomes are emerging. This problem is also vivid in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education since students can use GenAI tools to rapidly generate ideas, user interface templates, screen graphics and mock-ups, or entire user research programmes. This paper presents the results of a small-scale survey performed with a group of HCI students regarding their experiences and expectations regarding the use of GenAI tools in their current HCI course, as well as expected GenAI-relevant university policies. Conclusions from this study can be informative for HCI teachers considering the potential use of GenAI tools in their classes and for university managers in the broader context of engineering university education, regarding computer science in particular. Also, results of this study can be useful for the educational management involving students as the teaching process stakeholders in the context of developing institutional policies as to the allowed use of GenAI tools.