Sunday, June 12, 2011

HCI and (or versus?) Design

I came across a chapter about the uncomfortable relation between the traditions of HCI and Design. I have not checked if it is actually useful, but it should be worth reading anyway as part of the background to our thinking about function, likeability etc.

K. Kuutti. 2009. HCI and design: uncomfortable  bedfellows? In: Binder, Löwgren & Malmborg (eds.) (Re)searching the Digital Bauhaus. Springer, London, pp. 43-59

Available from http://cc.oulu.fi/~kuutti/Julkaisukansio/Ehn_60_Kuutti.pdf

Kari Kuutti is Professor, University of Oulu, Department of Information Processing Sciences
Linnanmaa,  Finland

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