@inproceedings{discovery10177918, booktitle = {EduCHI 2019: Global Perspectives on HCI Education}, year = {2019}, title = {Digital Touch Experiences: Educating the Designers}, note = {{\copyright} The Authors 2019 This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/}, month = {May}, url = {https://educhi2019.hcilivingcurriculum.org}, abstract = {This paper provides the emerging EDUCHI community with a case study example of innovation within HCI education, in the context of Industrial Design, at a moment in time where both disciplines are experiencing radical transformation in terms of their identity and scope. Here, we present a novel pedagogy for designing digital touch communications, developed by an interdisciplinary collaboration of HCI, design, and social science academics, and advanced through a coursework assignment for around eighty undergraduate design students undertaking a User Experience Design module. We discuss the role of low-fidelity experience prototyping of interactions beyond screens, and the need for new educational 'tools' to support the design of digital touch experiences. We conclude the paper with reflections on the collaboration so far and ongoing work.}, author = {Mitchell, Val and Wilson, Garrath and Leder Mackley, Kerstin and Jewitt, Carey and Golmohammadi, Lili and Atkinson, Douglas and Price, Sara} }