From Protocol to Practice: Teaching the Relational Practice of Interviewing in HCI Education

Qualitative interviewing is a foundational method in Human Computer-Interaction (HCI) research and a common component of methods education. Yet interview instruction is often framed around procedural competencies, developing protocols, minimizing bias, and ensuring ethical compliance, while the relational tensions that shape real interview encounters remain largely implicit. This provocation argues that interviews are not neutral data-gathering practices but socially situated interactions co-con