Authors:
Alan Blackwell
Recent issues of Interactions have laid the groundwork for a debate about the disciplinary status of HCI. This was initially perceived as a "big hole" in HCI research—the concern that HCI does not seem to have a solid intellectual or methodological core [1]. That article by Vassilis Kostakos drew on his work with Liu and others, whose bibliometric analysis of keywords in CHI publications over the past 20 years showed that the field seemed to follow technical fashions rather than long-term research themes. Quite reasonably, Kostakos and his colleagues observed that it is hard to maintain an academic discipline…
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