32. “
This was back when the Internet
was still some exotic pet kept in
the corner of the publishing world
—throw some kibble at it, watch it
dance on its little leash, oh quite
cute, it definitely won’t kill us in
the night.
—Gone Girl
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41. Forum
ered Design Considered
User-Cent
ful (with a
1 pologies to
Harm
ijkstra, Nikl aus Wirth,
Edsger D
and D on Norman)
of the
identiªe d the importance
elo pment have often d to the
Stu dies of IT for dev IT syste ms to be matche
of IT systems and the need for tral concerns for
the
usability es are cen
ie s. These two issu n.
tre
needs of host communit (HCI), o r Interaction Desig
y om puter Interaction partic-
discip line of Human–C centered design is just one
c tion Design, user- ch
Wit hin HCI and Intera be organ ized to achieve su
des ign processes can
ular view on how
t the
aims. g from a workshop held a
n discussions arisin alifor-
Th is paper reports o conferen ce in San Jose, C
ra ction (CHI) 2007 brought
Com puter/Human Inte the worl d. The workshop
st HCI conference in practitio-
nia . CHI is the large signers a nd development
r a group of 45 interaction de ts from 17 countr
ies,
togethe participan
o rld and included o-
ners fr om around the w ers based in emerging econ
h ers and practition aim of
inclu ding many researc Namibia , and Benin. The
h ina, South Africa, tribute to
mie s such as India, C raction design could con
shop was to examine how inte sues were discuss
ed,
the work many is
for develo pment. Although rincipal
the success of IT cusing on some of the p
s a necessarily selective report fo
59. Twenty-first-century life is karaoke —
a never-ending attempt to maintain
dignity while a jumble of data
uncontrollably blips across a screen.
— Douglas Coupland