HCI Remixed: Reflections on Works That Have Influenced the HCI CommunityThomas Erickson, David W. McDonald Personal and reflective essays that describe how particular works—whether papers, books, or demos, from classics to forgotten gems—have influenced each writer's approach to HCI. 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
I Big Ideas | 5 |
Making a Career Out of Getting Back to Where I Started | 7 |
The Unexpected Legacy of Ted Nelsons Computer LibDream Machines | 13 |
3 ManComputer Symbiosis | 19 |
Reflections on Computer Science and HCI | 23 |
5 The Mouse the Demo and the Big Idea | 29 |
II Influential Systems | 35 |
A Fusion of Design and Technology | 167 |
28 Making Sense of Sense Making | 173 |
29 Does Voice Coordination Have to Be Rocket Science? | 179 |
30 Decomposing a Design Space | 185 |
VI Theres More to Design | 191 |
31 Discovering America | 193 |
32 Interaction Design Considered as a Craft | 199 |
33 Designing Up in the Software Industry | 205 |
6 A Creative Programming Environment | 37 |
Learning the Value of Consistency and User Models | 43 |
8 It Is Still a Star | 49 |
9 The Disappearing Computer | 55 |
10 It Really Is All About Location | 61 |
III Large Groups Loosely Joined | 67 |
Human Communication via Computer | 69 |
12 On the Diffusion of Innovations in HCI | 75 |
13 From Smart to Ordinary | 81 |
14 Knowing the Particulars | 87 |
Revisiting Seymour Paperts Ideas on Community Culture Computers and Learning | 93 |
16 The Work to Make Software Work | 97 |
IV Groups in the Wild | 103 |
17 McGrath and the Behaviors of Groups BOGs | 105 |
GroupCentered Design | 111 |
19 Infrastructure and Its Effect on the Interface | 119 |
20 Taking Articulation Work Seriously | 123 |
Getting Serious about GIM | 129 |
22 A CSCW Sampler | 135 |
23 Video Toys and Beyond Being There | 141 |
V Reflective Practitioners | 147 |
John Gould Plays Wizard of Oz | 149 |
25 Seeing the Hole in Space | 155 |
26 Edward Tuftes 1 + 1 3 | 161 |
Verbal Privilege and Translation | 211 |
35 Some Experience Some Evolution | 215 |
36 Mumford Revisited | 221 |
VII Tacking and Jibbing | 227 |
37 Learning from Learning from Notes | 229 |
Replacing Cognition | 235 |
Revisiting a Study of Domestic Computing | 241 |
On Multidisciplinary Design and Coadaptation | 247 |
Managing HCI with the Peopleware Perspective | 253 |
42 Learning from Engineering Research | 259 |
43 Interaction Is the Future of Computing | 263 |
VIII Seeking Common Ground | 267 |
Gibsons Account of the Environment | 269 |
Designing Effective Representations | 275 |
Card Moran and Newell | 281 |
47 A Most Fitting Law | 285 |
48 Reflections on Card English and Burr | 289 |
49 The Contribution of the LanguageAction Perspective to a New Foundation for Design | 293 |
A Detective Story | 299 |
Sociality and Intentionality | 305 |
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