A survey of the trajectories conceptual framework: Investigating theory use in HCI

Velt, Raphael; Benford, Steve; Reeves, Stuart

Abstract

We present a case study of how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) theory is reused within the field. We analyze the HCI literature in order to reveal the impact of one particular theory, the trajectories framework that has been cited as an example of both contemporary HCI theory and a strong concept that sits between theory and design practice. Our analysis of 60 papers that seriously engaged with trajectories reveals the purposes that the framework served and which parts of it they used. We compare our findings to the originally stated goals of trajectories and to subsequent claims of its status as both theory and strong concept. The results shed new light on what we mean by theory in HCI, including its relationship to practice and to other disciplines.

Citation

Velt, R., Benford, S., & Reeves, S. (2017). A survey of the trajectories conceptual framework: Investigating theory use in HCI. In CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2091-2105). https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026022

• Conference Name: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017)
• Conference Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
• Start Date: May 6, 2017
• End Date: May 11, 2017
• Acceptance Date: Dec 12, 2016
• Publication Date: May 2, 2017
• Deposit Date: Feb 20, 2017
• Publicly Available Date: May 2, 2017
• Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 2091-2105
• Book Title: CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• ISBN: 978-1-4503-4655-9
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3026022
• Keywords: HCI, Theory, Trajectories, Strong concepts
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/860128
• Publisher URL: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=3025453.3026022
• Related Public URLs: https://chi2017.acm.org/
• Additional Information: CHI 2017, May 6-11, 2017. ACM 978-1-4503-4655-9. doi:10.1145/3025453.3026022