Welcome
Welcome to all HCI researchers! Hopefully, the site has something for you.
The primary aim, however, is to support researchers espousing HCI/E as the way forward for HCI as an Engineering discipline. HCI/E(ngineering) was developed from 1979 to 2001 by the Ergonomics and HCI Unit, University College London, during my time as Director. The site recognises the contributions of research colleagues and PhD students to that development. It constitutes a Festschrift and Legacy Archive for the EU/UCL. [1]
The secondary aim is to support those researchers pursuing HCI research approaches, other than HCI as Engineering, including those of Innovation; Art; Craft; Applied; Science and others. [2]
The support is intended to help HCI researchers meet current HCI research challenges by building on each other’s work, so as to advance discipline progress
Feedback on all aspects of the site is welcome. It will be added to the site as appropriate.
John Long (3, December, 2017)
[1] Long, J. (2010) Some Celebratory Reflections on a Celebratory HCI Festschrift. Interacting with Computers, 22, 68-71. [2] see <www.hciresearchforall.net>About This Site
The site has three main sections. ‘Home’ contains the site’s Welcome, Aim and Section Archive. ‘HCI Engineering’ presents HCI/E as the way forward for HCI Engineering. ‘HCI/E and Other Approaches’ relates the former to the latter.
Aim
The aim is to propose a way forward for HCI as an Engineering discipline and to relate that approach to other HCI research approaches. The proposal takes the form of HCI/E and in particular its Conception for HCI Engineering research. The Conception comprises HCI frameworks for: Discipline; Design Problem; Design Knowledge; Design Practice and Design Research Exemplar. HCI/E attempts to address the current HCI research challenges.
Who are We?
John Long (Emeritus Professor at University College London) provides the content and Gerred Blyth (UX and Digital Theatrics Consultant) provides the structure.
Section Archive
This section contains an earlier ‘Welcome To This Site’.
More....For the last 25 years or so, I have attempted to develop an engineering approach to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). My ‘substantial contribution’ to HCI Engineering (in the words of the call for papers) was celebrated by a Special Issue of the journal Interacting with Computers (Sutcliffe and Blandford (Editors), 2010). However, much of my HCI research has been conducted with colleagues and students at the Ergonomics and HCI Unit, University College London. It seems natural, then, to create a website, which builds on (and enhances) the ‘Festschrift for John Long’, to celebrate, at the same time , the research of the Ergonomics Unit and more generally HCI Engineering.
The first, that is this section of the website, introduces the past, present and future of HCI Engineering. The second section comprises the Ergonomics Unit Research and the Festschrift for John Long. Together, they contribute (along with the work of others, of course) to the past of HCI Engineering. The third section consists of Reflections on HCI Engineering and constitutes a contribution to the present and future of HCI Engineering. The latter section includes: Papers; Dialogues; Personal Views; Ergonomics Unit Student Reflections; Interviews; Frequently-Asked Questions; and Conceptions for All. Other contribution categories will be added as the need arises.
The website aims to promote an engineering approach to HCI among researchers, practitioners and students. To that end, it makes accessible Ergonomics Unit research, either directly on the site itself or via the UCL Discovery archive. The latter, along with other public scholarly repositories, is intended to contain the ‘legacy’ archive of the Ergonomics Unit. The HCI Engineering website provides an introduction and links to that archive.
Gerred Blyth, an ex-Ergonomics Unit MSc student and now a successful HCI consultant, suggested the idea of a website and offered to set one up. All credit for the structure of the website goes to him. The content, however, is mine. The result is: www.hciengineering.net. Hopefully, HCI researchers, practitioners and students will find it useful in continuing to develop an engineering approach to HCI.
I wish them Good Luck!
John Long
