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A little respect: four case studies of HCI’s disregard for other disciplines

Marshall, Joe; Linehan, Conor; Spence, Jocelyn; Rennick-Egglestone, Stefan

Authors

Conor Linehan

Jocelyn Spence

Stefan Rennick-Egglestone



Abstract

HCI research often demonstrates lack of respect for other disciplines, evidenced by the way work from those disciplines are cited in CHI papers. We present 4 case studies that demonstrate; 1) that HCI researchers sometimes misunderstand and misrepresent work from other disciplines, and 2) how initial misrepresentations can become ‘accepted wisdom ’within HCI. This disregard for other disciplines leads to errors such as authors citing work to support ‘facts’ precisely opposite to those demonstrated by the cited literature. We conclude with recommendations for authors, editors, publishers and readers on how to reduce the risk of such failures.

Citation

Marshall, J., Linehan, C., Spence, J., & Rennick-Egglestone, S. (2017). A little respect: four case studies of HCI’s disregard for other disciplines.

Conference Name CHI 2017: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
End Date May 11, 2017
Acceptance Date Feb 10, 2017
Publication Date May 6, 2017
Deposit Date Mar 8, 2017
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Keywords HCI; interdisciplinarity; Bad HCI
Public URL https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/859382
Publisher URL http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3027063.3052752
Additional Information doi:10.1145/3027063.3052752

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