The BirdbassadorOct 24, 2023
An unprecedented third blog post from me over the last few days, this one about how working in human computer interaction often feels like sitting at the kids table during thanksgiving https://medium.com/@mcorrell/the-othering-of-hci-ab0a07edc69f
Show threadBrian C. Keegan, Ph.D.

@Birdbassador Arriving at the end of your post, I couldn’t help thinking about @jbigham’s Law (“The two hardest problems in CS are (1) people and (2) convincing computer scientists it’s people”)

I found myself wondering whether HCI should stop trying to save computer scientists from themselves: I’m not excited about append-only databases, fancy autocomplete, or piece work.

So much of the “participatory design” in HCI is neutered from post-war consensus around labor politics. I’d start there.

Oct 25, 2023 at 5:39amWeb
Show threadThe BirdbassadorOct 25, 2023
@bkeegan @jbigham
yeah, there's a quasi-legitimacy trap argument to be made that if your goal is to promote human dignity and flourishing in our relationship with technology, you've already made several fatally limiting structural choices by doing so from within/next to/within the confines of STEM academia