Interaction criticism: A proposal and framework for a new discipline of HCI

Jeffrey Bardzell; Shaowen Bardzell

doi:10.1145/1358628.1358703

Interaction criticism: A proposal and framework for a new discipline of HCI

Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell

College of Information Sciences and Technology

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	2463-2472
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358703
State	Published - 2008
Event	28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Florence, Italy Duration: Apr 5 2008 → Apr 10 2008

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Other	28th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Florence
Period	4/5/08 → 4/10/08

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Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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