A panel of 'researchers' talking about how HCI needs to be more involved in 'deep infrastructure' aspects of software...HCI community should come up with a 'killer app'; HCI should lead 'infrastructure' ....
- to me it seemed like the panelists were far away from realities of how practioners work.
We are very much involved in such discussions. Agreed we do not have the right amount of 'influence' most of the time. Sometimes we do. But we definitely are involved in the discussions, trying to bring in the aspect of how decisions at the infrastructure can impact the user experience.
'Design' in principle dictates coming up with a solution in a certain time, space and context by taking into account all the different 'constraints' - often conflicting ones.
Likewise we do. In the real world, we need to take into account multiple product standards too.
So in this day and age where 'collaboration' is the ONLY way, this panel seemed too dated to me.
Or maybe you just happen to work in an organization which is ahead of the curve? :)
ReplyDeleteA week in CHI, speaking to many other professionals from different organizations, I do believe we are at par - in some cases even ahead :)
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