TY - GEN
T1 - In search of UX translators
T2 - 12th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, DIS 2017
AU - Brier, Jason
AU - Gray, Colin M.
AU - Kou, Yubo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2017/6/10
Y1 - 2017/6/10
N2 - Interest in the nature of HCI practice has increased in the past decade, particularly in relation to the role and existence of "translators" that may bridge the gap between research and UX practice. At present, there is insufficient research to appropriately define and identify the activities of translators, and we hope to provoke additional interest in this area by documenting the UX - focused interactions on Twitter. In this work-in-progress, we identified and visualized interactions among a stratified set of UX practitioners and practitioner-academic hybrids on Twitter, analyzing their interactions to understand what relationships and roles may exist. We found few potential translators, and none from a primarily academic perspective. We identify implications and provocations from this visualization and Twitter analysis approach for future practice-led research.
AB - Interest in the nature of HCI practice has increased in the past decade, particularly in relation to the role and existence of "translators" that may bridge the gap between research and UX practice. At present, there is insufficient research to appropriately define and identify the activities of translators, and we hope to provoke additional interest in this area by documenting the UX - focused interactions on Twitter. In this work-in-progress, we identified and visualized interactions among a stratified set of UX practitioners and practitioner-academic hybrids on Twitter, analyzing their interactions to understand what relationships and roles may exist. We found few potential translators, and none from a primarily academic perspective. We identify implications and provocations from this visualization and Twitter analysis approach for future practice-led research.
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U2 - 10.1145/3064857.3079129
DO - 10.1145/3064857.3079129
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85022226241
T3 - DIS 2017 Companion - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
SP - 111
EP - 115
BT - DIS 2017 Companion - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 10 June 2017 through 14 June 2017
ER -