[HN Gopher] My HCI toolbox: Methods for designing and evaluating...
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       My HCI toolbox: Methods for designing and evaluating UIs
        
       Author : azhenley
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2022-07-31 16:32 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | cryo wrote:
       | Would be nice if the article tells what the HCI acronym means.
        
         | intrepidhero wrote:
         | HCI = Human Computer Interaction[1] for the curious. This is
         | the name for the older research discipline that UX (user
         | experience) grew out of. I'm familiar with the term from
         | reading "An Introduction to Human Factors Engineering" (2004)
         | by Wickens, et al. But wikipedia dates it's first use to a
         | paper by James Carlisle in 1976.
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         | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human-computer_interaction
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         | Edit: to add further context.
        
           | cryo wrote:
           | Thank you, that's a very interesting topic. I watched lots of
           | videos and material about computer interfaces of the early
           | days to present.
           | 
           | It feels a bit like the magic and larger innovations stopped
           | at some point in the 80/90's. It's rare to find new UI
           | experiments.
           | 
           | The following keeps me hoping:
           | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGVCVqlXg0Y unfortunately
           | it's just an animated concept.
        
             | 8note wrote:
             | Did you miss the iphone and gesture based capacitive touch
             | interfaces?
             | 
             | Pen plus touch on the surface devices is also crazy better
             | than keyboard/mouse for plenty of things
        
       | binbashthefash wrote:
       | Came for the hyperconverged infrastructure, left confused
        
       | flurie wrote:
       | One thing I've noticed about a lot of inward-facing HCI topics is
       | that they are very focused on "the code", but that's just a
       | portion of what's involved in common working loops. I spend a lot
       | of time thinking about stuff that surrounds the code, and it's
       | clear that large orgs are starting to as well, if they haven't
       | already, though there is little convergence on the topic. Am I
       | wrong about these topics not being in the literature? Am I not
       | looking for the right topics or terms, or is this not happening
       | at all in academic research? And if it's not happening, how do we
       | draw researchers' attention to it?
        
         | angrais wrote:
         | It's difficult for me to follow what you said.
         | 
         | What specifically do you want to draw researchers attention to?
         | Can you give an example?
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         | Your example above of "common working loops" and essentially
         | think time around coding has been studied extensively
         | previously. Before making recommendations, I want to first
         | ensure we're on the same page.
         | 
         | Potential keywords (and conferences) are CSCW and CHI.
        
           | flurie wrote:
           | Sorry, I should have given some examples.
           | 
           | I'm talking about the secondary work that goes into software,
           | things like environment setup, building artifacts, producing
           | ancillary tooling, and deployment.
           | 
           | I know these might be considered disparate, and I'm
           | intentionally omitting topics that I know are studied, such
           | as formal verification and fuzzing.
           | 
           | I was joking with my spouse, who is a methodologist in
           | medicine, about making a group of researchers set up
           | environments for working on various large open source
           | projects as an example.
           | 
           | Perhaps all of this crosses into operations research?
        
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