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WebWord Weblog Posting Posting Date: February 16, 2003 Conflict in HCI Field: Computer Science vs. Psychology (Yarone Goren) -- "SO, exactly here is where I see the conflict between Computer Science and Psychology in the field of HCI. Computer Science focuses way, way, way too much on the implementation!" (Comments: Thanks Jack. For one reason or another, this reminds me of Trouble in Paradise: Problems Facing the Usability Community.)
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Yarone Goren over-states the case a bit - which is fairly natural in a critique of an existing situation. The Don Norman article he links to (http://www.jnd.org/dn.mss/BCCSandProducts.html) is more balanced - it's all very well for psychologists to criticise, but they lack the design and production engineering skills to make a positive contribution or to judge what it's realistic to aim for with the avialble technology and cost parameters. If Yarone Goren really wants to improve the current situation, he has to acquire some design and production engineering skills so he can then convince a big corporation that he can make significant improvements at reasonable cost. Then he might be able to start a band-wagon. Posted by: Philip Chalmers on February 18, 2003 09:37 AM
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