1. On (Re-)Positioning HCI
- My Ongoing Reflection -
Hao-Chuan Wang . 王浩全
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Information Systems and Applications
National Tsing Hua University
at OpenHCI Workshop 2013, July 5, 2013
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A Poster from CHI 2012 -
“CHI – 30 years of
Creation, Evolution, and
Intelligent Design”
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Creation, Evolution and Intelligent Design
Creation
• OpenHCI as a successful case
• Great creativity from student designers!
Evolution
• Diversity
• Sophistication
Intelligent Design
• Collaboration
• Bridging what need to be done socially and what can
be done technically.
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Possible Ways Out
• Pluralism- Multiple labeling
• HCI isn’t belonging to just one discipline.
• Interdisciplinarity- HCI is the combination of all (design, CS,
engineering, social sciences, etc.).
• HCI can and should grow in a variety of colleges, and maybe
with different emphases and styles. This is what we are doing.
• Emergentism- Emergent area
• HCI evolves from multiple disciplines but isn’t belonging to any
of them.
• Emergent properties- the whole is not the sum of the parts.
• HCI is itself a discipline. This is what we should probably pursue
next.
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“It's not the strongest of the
species that survive, nor the most
intelligent, but the one most
responsive to change”
- Charles Darwin, 1809 - 1882