Authors:
Jonathan Grudin
When I was in school, history was presented as an immutable timeline, stretching from the dawn of writing to about World War II, after which it was too controversial for children. My forays into the early days of HCI have revealed less constancy; history changes as our perspective changes. We continually rewrite history. A well-attended event at CHI 2008 was "Usability Evaluation Considered Harmful," featuring a critique of CHI reviewing practices by Saul Greenberg and Bill Buxton [1]. They argued that three HCI landmarks, featured in most HCI histories, omitted studies of use and therefore would have fared poorly…
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