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Chargement... HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Communitypar Thomas Erickson
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. A collection of some fifty short essays, written by HCI researchers on the common topic of "a single work, at least ten years old, that influenced their approach to HCI" – and the results are quite uncommon. Many of the classics are addressed, of course, but also a fair number of works outside the mainstream canon and even outside the HCI field. For example, I personally found Terry Winograd's discussion of the 1955 book Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss quite stunning as it showed how much of what we today call user-centered design has long-standing (and generally unacknowledged) roots in industrial design. Another pleasant aspect of the book is the personal tone of many of the essays and how they foreground the intellectual development of the authors themselves. Altogether, I find that the book provides a rich and diverse picture of the beginnings of HCI, and hence a significant part of the intellectual heritage of interaction design. Not bad, not bad. If I was doctoral student in HCI I would be digging through this for some good tiddbits and also just an idea how to write. That being said, there were a lot of essays collected, probably more than needed. Towards the end I was skimming quite heavily. I also must confess a preference for those that talked about more concrete papers. I also found a few papers had the unfortunate thing where they described briefly a paper that was interesting, and then dawdled on all the research they did based on the paper which was usually less interesting. (There were exceptions of course). It's now available as an ebook on the MIT press portal http://mitpress-ebooks.mit.edu/product/hci-remixed aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Over almost three decades, the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has produced a rich and varied literature. Although the focus of attention today is naturally on new work, older contributions that played a role in shaping the trajectory and character of the field have much to tell us. The contributors to HCI Remixed were asked to reflect on a single work at least ten years old that influenced their approach to HCI. The result is this collection of fifty-one short, engaging, and idiosyncratic essays, reflections on a range of works in a variety of forms that chart the emergence of a new field. An article, a demo, a book: any of these can solve a problem, demonstrate the usefulness of a new method, or prompt a shift in perspective. HCI Remixed offers us glimpses of how this comes about. The contributors consider such HCI classics as Sutherland's Sketchpad, Englebart's demo of NLS, and Fitts on Fitts' Law--and such forgotten gems as Pulfer's NRC Music Machine, and Galloway and Rabinowitz's Hole in Space. Others reflect on works somewhere in between classic and forgotten--Kidd's "The Marks Are on the Knowledge Worker," King Beach's "Becoming a Bartender," and others. Some contributors turn to works in neighboring disciplines--Henry Dreyfuss's book on industrial design, for example--and some range farther afield, to Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Taken together, the essays offer an accessible, lively, and engaging introduction to HCI research that reflects the diversity of the field's beginnings. Thomas Erickson is Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. David W. McDonald is Assistant Professor at the Information School at the University of Washington, Seattle. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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I’m a non-techie, this was my first introduction to concepts such as GOMS, Fitts’ law, iterative design and how to change space to place. I was pleased to find that almost all of the essays were within my range of comprehension. It was fascinating to see how the field of HCI draws on cognitive psychology, sociology, linguistics, and hermeneutics. I’m curious to sample some of the original books and papers referenced here. I was also interested to gain an insight into some of the continuing discussions, such as the relative merits of modeling versus field studies.
I would recommend this book to anyone who’s looking to bootstrap his or her way into this field. Given how ubiquitous computers are in our world, that should be just about anyone. ( )