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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451923003321

Titolo

HCI remixed : essays on works that have influenced the HCI community / / edited by Thomas Erickson and David W. McDonald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : MIT Press, , c2008

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2007]

ISBN

0-262-29264-5

1-282-09628-1

0-262-25607-X

9786612096280

1-4356-1981-1

Descrizione fisica

1 PDF (xv, 337 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

McDonaldDavid W

EricksonThomas <1956->

Disciplina

004/.019

Soggetti

Human-computer interaction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Multi-User"

Academic Complete Subscription 2011-2012

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-329) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.