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

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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.

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      CHI EA '08: CHI '08 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
      April 2008
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      ISBN:9781605580128
      DOI:10.1145/1358628

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