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HCI as an Inter-Discipline

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 503 - 516

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732505

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

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This paper responds to a 2014 paper by Liu et al seeking a quantifiable thematic core to CHI. As an alternative, I argue that CHI should strategically avoid the search for such a core, instead seeking its identity as a mode of responding and contributing to other disciplines.

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HCI as an Inter-Discipline
1. Human-centered computing
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Computing / technology policy

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CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/2702613

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