Menumbuhkan Talenta Desain Pengalaman Pengguna Melalui ACM SIGCHI Student Chapter: Refleksi dari IPB University

Abstract

A student chapter is an integral part of a scientific association whose mission is to advance science while exposing students to both the scientific and professional world. IPB University ACM SIGCHI Student Chapter was chartered in 2019 as the first student chapter in Indonesia, perhaps even in Southeast Asia. The student chapter has steadily become a community of practice that connect students, faculty, and alumni with passion or even profession in user-experience design (UXD) related field. We identified the key factors and strategies that allowed our student chapter to flourish. We also have observed the impact of student chapter activities on student competency in UXD. Although previous research has discussed user experience competency and how to teach them in university, we found minimal literature on measuring the impact of a student's activities in the student chapter on their UXD competency. In this paper, we aim to present the role of the IPB University ACM SIGCHI Student Chapter from 2019 to 2021 in nurturing UXD talent in IPB University. Firstly, we present the strategy we used to ensure the sustainability of the student chapter. Secondly, we present our preliminary research to measure the student chapter's activities and their impacts on UXD talent developments. Lastly, we present the opportunities and challenges we found in our first three years of running the student chapter. We hope the lesson learned from our activities may promote more student chapters, encourage collaboration between student chapters, and foster further discussion about the sustainability and impact of a student chapter.