[IxDA Discuss] Interaction Design as a worldwide-accepted profession

[Esteban Barahona]

Hi (first post ^_^ ),

There are some people that want to start a useful profession as an
Interaction Designer. I think it should be a career on its own right, not a
hybrid graphic design/software engineering pseudo-career.

Currently (at least where I live, Costa Rica), there's not one single
University that teach Interaction Design as one profession. I decided that I
will start to study graphic design and later finish software engineering,
but that's far from optimal.

Some universities, companies and other groups aknowledges "Human-Computer
Interface (HCI) Design", but only as a subset of "Software Engineering". Is
there at least one University in the world that accepts and teach Interaction
Design as a profession/career on its own?