CS547 Human-Computer Interaction Seminar (Seminar on People, Computers, and Design)
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Joseph (Jofish) Kaye
Cornell Univ. Evolving Evaluation from Engineers to Experience: What History can Teach us About Evaluation in HCI April 27, 2007 You need Flash player 8+ and JavaScript enabled to view this video.
Human-Computer Interaction sits at the boundary between technical and social practice. Unlike entirely technical disciplines, we cannot always evaluate our work on clearly defined criteria such as bits-per-second or megahertz. Unlike social science disciplines, our focus on the /building /of novel technology requires evaluation to determine what (intended and unintended) effects are induced by that particularly technology. Over the history of HCI, different criteria have been key for evaluation, and these criteria have changed and shifted over time. In this talk, I'll discuss the evolution of HCI's notion of evaluation, and redefinitions over time of what HCI considers valid knowledge. I culminate with case studies showing how this understanding may be of use in light of current questions about the evaluation of experience-focused rather than task-focused HCI |
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