Sharing a User-Centered Focus:HCI and iSchools

Kenneth R. Fleischmann,Paul T. Jaeger, Allison Druin,

Jennifer Golbeck, and Jennifer Preece

College of Information Studies, University of Maryland

Card, Moran, & Newell, 1983; Myers, 1998

HCI in the 1980s and 1990s

HCI Today

Suchman, 2006; Nardi, Kaptelinin, & Foot, 2007; Fleischmann, in press

Three Reasons for HCI in iSchools

1. Common emphasis: users

2. Common orientation: inter/multidisciplinary

3. Common theory: community and convergence

1. Emphasis on Users

1. Emphasis on Users

1. Emphasis on Users

2. Inter/Multidisciplinary

2. Inter/Multidisciplinary

2. Inter/Multidisciplinary

2. Inter/Multidisciplinary

2. Inter/Multidisciplinary

2. Inter/Multidisciplinary

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

3. Community and Convergence

Conclusion

• iSchools are the logical site for HCI education (and research)

• HCI in iSchools likely to grow in the future

• Relationship between HCI and iSchools is strong and mutually beneficial

Thank you!!! Any questions?References:

• Card, S.K., Moran, T.P., & Newell, A. 1983. The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

• Fleischmann, K.R. In Press. “Sociotechnical Interaction and Cyborg-Cyborg Interaction: Transforming the Scale and Convergence of HCI.” Forthcoming in The Information Society.

• Myers, B.A. 1998. “A Brief History of Human Computer Interaction Technology.” ACM Interactions 5(2): 44-54.

• Nardi, B., Kaptelinin, V., & Foot, K. 2007. “Series Forward.” In The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction, By C.S. De Souza. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

• Suchman, L.A. 2006. Human-Machine Reconfigurations: Plans and Situated Actions, 2nd Edition. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Ken Fleischmann, Assistant Professor, College of Information Studies, University of Marylandkfleisch@umd.edu