Classifying users: a hard look at some controversial issues

  • Authors:
  • K. Potosnak;P. J. Hayes;M. B. Rosson;M. L. Schneider;J. A. Whiteside

  • Affiliations:
  • The Koffler Group, 3029 Wilshire Blvd., Santa Monica, CA;Computer Science Department, Carnegie-Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA;IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;Consultant, 22 Colonial Place, New Haven, CT;Digital Equipment Corporation, 110 Spit Brook Road, Nashua, NH

  • Venue:
  • CHI '86 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

It has become a common recommendation to computer interface designers that they should “Know the User” (e.g., Rubinstein and Hersh, 1984). This panel discussion will examine the issues that arise from this advice.