A Translational Science Model for HCI

Colusso, Lucas; Jones, Ridley; Munson, Sean A.; Hsieh, Gary

doi:10.1145/3290605.3300231

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“…HCI researchers have studied and proposed models of relationships among the academic research and professional practice communities (e.g., [29,40,87,93]), but the VIS community has not seen equivalent efforts. Figure 2, which has been adapted from the work of Gray et al [40] engaging with interaction designers, depicts "bubble-up" and "trickle-down" effects, with the addition of a loop for design studies.…”

Section: Role Of Visualization Design Studiesmentioning

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Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice

Parsons

Gray

Baigelenov

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)

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Professional roles for data visualization designers are growing in popularity, and interest in relationships between the academic research and professional practice communities is gaining traction. However, despite the potential for knowledge sharing between these communities, we have little understanding of the ways in which practitioners design in real-world, professional settings. Inquiry in numerous design disciplines indicates that practitioners approach complex situations in ways that are fundamentally different from those of researchers. In this work, I take a practice-led approach to understanding visualization design practice on its own terms. Twenty data visualization practitioners were interviewed and asked about their design process, including the steps they take, how they make decisions, and the methods they use. Findings suggest that practitioners do not follow highly systematic processes, but instead rely on situated forms of knowing and acting in which they draw from precedent and use methods and principles that are determined appropriate in the moment. These findings have implications for how visualization researchers understand and engage with practitioners, and how educators approach the training of future data visualization designers.

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Section: Role Of Visualization Design Studiesmentioning

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Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice

Parsons

Gray

Baigelenov

et al. 2020

2020 IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS)

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“…HCI students go on to a range of careers, but we will focus here on the majority of graduates which go on to practitioner roles related in some way with user experience (UX) design practice. While some HCI scholars have explicitly sought to encourage translational discourse [6,18]-backed by a 2015 research symposium on the topic [32]and practice-led work [12,19,24], relatively little literature addresses the role of design in everyday work practices and the negotiation of design philosophies that takes place across disciplinary perspectives and in diverse industry contexts. We seek to further the translational conversation by foregrounding the complexity of UX designers' own experiences, resulting in a better understanding of both the designer's role in shaping UX practices "in the wild" and a fuller description of the liminal spaces between HCI education and UX practice.…”

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Tensions in Enacting a Design Philosophy in UX Practice

Watkins

Gray

Toombs

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

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Design culture is increasingly present within organizations, especially with the rise of UX as a profession. Yet there are often disconnects between the development of a design philosophy and its translation in practice. Students preparing for UX careers are positioned in a liminal space between their educational experience and future practice, and are actively working to build a bridge between their developing philosophy of design and the translation of that philosophy when faced with the complexity of design practice. In this study, we interviewed ten students and practitioners educated within design-oriented HCI programs, focusing on their design philosophy and evaluating how their philosophical beliefs were shaped in practice. Building on prior work on flows of competence, we thematically analyzed these interviews, identifying the philosophical beliefs of these designers and their trajectories of development, adoption, or suppression in industry. We identify opportunities for enhancements to UX educational practices and future research on design complexity in industry contexts.

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“…Translation as a strategy for bridging the gap Several strategies for bridging the gap have been proposed under the broad label of "translational" activity [40,11,12]. Translation has been described [15] as a process whereby new forms of knowledge are created.…”

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“…We also acknowledge that large portions of HCI research may not align with interests in gap bridging nor necessarily agree with our characterization of "gaps" (although we would argue that, when treated carefully, it can be a generative metaphor [1]). First, it is not uncommon within HCI to feel that its research should make a practical difference, coupled with a sense of frustration of potential non-use [12]. We feel that this frustration may be borne by and be symptomatic of HCI's constructive tendencies [41] and its history grounded in ergonomics and latterly, usability engineering.…”

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“…What we do note, however, is a general paucity of accounts of practical attempts to bridge the gap, although there is an emerging literature focussing on some aspects of this [27,11]. Colusso and colleagues, for instance, have recently proposed to apply a model of Translational Sciences to the research-practice gap in HCI, and have called for the production of studies of engagement between both sides of the gap, of which the present article is an example [12]. HCI thus needs more documented cases that might inform improved conceptual reflections on the gap and how HCI constructs it with respect to theory and practice, academia and industry.…”

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Translations and Boundaries in the Gap Between HCI Theory and Design Practice

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Benford

Reeves

2020

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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The gap between research and design practice has long been a concern for the HCI community. In this article, we explore how different translations of HCI knowledge might bridge this gap. A literature review characterizes the gap as having two key dimensions—one between general theory and particular artefacts and a second between academic HCI research and professional UX design practice. We report on a 5-year engagement between HCI researchers and a major media company to explore how a particular piece of HCI research, the trajectories conceptual framework , might be translated for and with UX practitioners. We present various translations of this framework and fit them into the gap we previously identified. This leads us to refine the idea of translations , suggesting that they may be led by researchers, by practitioners or co-produced by both as boundary objects . We consider the benefits of each approach.

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A Translational Science Model for HCI

Cited by 53 publications

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Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice

Design Judgment in Data Visualization Practice

Tensions in Enacting a Design Philosophy in UX Practice

Translations and Boundaries in the Gap Between HCI Theory and Design Practice

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