Interfaces Magazine - Issue 79: The Education Issue

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Interfaces Issue 79: The Education Issue

• HCI 2009 by Alan Blackwell
• Play up, play up and play the game by Tom McEwan
• Reflections by George Buchanan
• Lancaster MA in Interaction Design by Alan Dix & Corina Sas
• Teaching design to heterogeneous classes by Sus Lundgren
• Can short courses create lifelong learning? By David Travis
• Practical Interaction Design by Phil Turner and Susan Turner
• My PhD by Nazean Jomhari
• Profile with Anthony Dunne
• Interfaces reviews by Shailey Minocha
• Interacting with Computers by Dianne Murray
• View from the chair by Russell Beale

Interfaces Team: Fiona Dix, Eduardo Calvillo Gαmez, Jennifer Hart, and Stephen Hassard
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HCI 2009 - Celebrating People and Technology
1st to 5th September 2009 in Cambridge
http://www.hci2009.org/
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Interfaces Issue 80: Celebrating People and Technology
Please send your submissions to the next issue of Interfaces to John.Knight@intiuo.com by July 4th. 

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