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HCID Theory Notes 2006-01-17

In business:

• people think computers are boring because they are inflexible and only do boring stuff.
• stolterman thinks getting more designers into the world will solve this problem.
• I think there might be a bigger problem: there will never be enough designers/developers to do "clinical" design. Mostly theoretical and applied.

Focus on designing interaction that motivates people to do it. Make it enjoyable. Then they'll go out of their way to make the software work.

Stolterman: don't say "these guys" when refering to i.e. the inventors of VisiCalc. Say "these people".

We visualize things similarly across fields... is this because things actually are similar or because we choose the same representations over and over? In HCI, can we help offer people alternative perspectives?

Stolterman talks about collecting, organizing and manipulating bits (digital material). This makes it sound really dead. It makes digital material entirely passive. What is creating a hyperlink? Is it collecting/organizing/manipulating?