Recurrent exercises for introductory human computer interaction courses

Introductory human computer interaction (HCI) courses are fundamental in the computer science curriculum as there is not only a need for teaching students to solve problems, but also to map their solutions to end-users. Currently, there are several high level approaches to teaching such courses. Many of these courses can gain benefit through reformatting or augmenting current course structures with recurrent exercises. This paper suggests two types of recurrent exercises and contains data on one semester of a course using this methodology of teaching.