Interaction criticism: a proposal and framework for a new discipline of hci

  • Authors:
  • Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University School of Informatics, Bloomington, IN, USA;Indiana University School of Informatics, Bloomington, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Though interaction designers critique interfaces as a regular part of their research and practice, the field of HCI lacks a proper discipline of interaction criticism. By interaction criticism we mean rigorous, evidence-based interpretive analysis that explicates relationships among elements of an interface and the meanings, affects, moods, and intuitions they produce in the people that interact with them; the immediate goal of this analysis is the generation of innovative design insights. We summarize existing work offering promising directions in interaction criticism to build a case for a proper discipline. We then propose a framework for the discipline, relating each of its parts to recent HCI research.