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HCI Remixed Essays on Works That Have Influenced the HCI Community

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ISBN-10: 0262050889

ISBN-13: 9780262050883

Edition: 2007

Authors: Thomas Erickson, David W. McDonald

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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 Remixedwere 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…    
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Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 12/21/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.452
Language: English

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.

List of Works Covered
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Big Ideas
My Vision Isn't My Vision
Making a Career Out of Getting Back to Where I Started
Deeply Intertwingled
The Unexpected Legacy of Ted Nelson's Computer Lib/Dream Machines
Man-Computer Symbiosis
Drawing on SketchPad
Refl ections on Computer Science and HCI
The Mouse, the Demo, and the Big Idea
Influential Systems
A Creative Programming Environment
Fundamentals in HCI
Learning the Value of Consistency and User Models
It Is Still a Star
The Disappearing Computer
It Really Is All About Location!
Large Groups, Loosely Joined
Network Nation
Human Communication via Computer
On the Diffusion of Innovations in HCI
From Smart to Ordinary
Knowing the Particulars
Back to Samba School
Revisiting Seymour Papert's Ideas on Community, Culture, Computers, and Learning
The Work to Make Software Work
Groups in the Wild
McGrath and the Behaviors of Groups (BOGs)
Observing Collaboration
Group-Centered Design
Infrastructure and Its Effect on the Interface
Taking Articulation Work Seriously
Let's Shack Up
Getting Serious about GIM
A CSCW Sampler
Video, Toys, and Beyond Being There
Reflective Practitioners
A Simulated Listening Typewriter
John Gould Plays Wizard of Oz
Seeing the Hole in Space
Edward Tufte's 1 + 1 = 3
Typographic Space
A Fusion of Design and Technology
Making Sense of Sense Making
Does Voice Coordination Have to Be "Rocket Science"?
Decomposing a Design Space
There's More to Design
Discovering America
Interaction Design Considered as a Craft
Designing "Up" in the Software Industry
Revisiting an Ethnocritical Approach to HCI
Verbal Privilege and Translation
Some Experience! Some Evolution!
Mumford Revisited
Tacking and Jibbing
Learning from "Learning from Notes"
A Site for SOAR Eyes: (Re)placing Cognition
You Can Go Home Again
Revisiting a Study of Domestic Computing
From Gaia to HCI
On Multidisciplinary Design and Coadaptation
Fun at Work
Managing HCI with the Peopleware Perspective
Learning from Engineering Research
Interaction Is the Future of Computing
Seeking Common Ground
A Source of Stimulation
Gibson's Account of the Environment
When the External Entered HCI
Designing Effective Representations
The Essential Role of Mental Models in HCI
Card, Moran, and Newell
A Most Fitting Law
Reflections on Card, English, and Burr
Scott MacKenzie
The Contribution of the Language-Action Perspective to a New Foundation for Design
Following Procedures
A Detective Story
Play, Flex, and Slop
Sociality and Intentionality
References
Index