Bridging a Bridge

Abstract

ACM SIGCHI is the largest association for professionals in HCI that bridges computer science, information science, as well as the social and psychological sciences. Meanwhile, a parallel HCI community was formed in 2001 within the Association of Information Systems (AIS SIGHCI) community. While some researchers have already bridged these two HCI subdisciplines, the history and core values of these respective fields are quite different, offering new insights for how we can move forward together to sustain the future of HCI research. The main goal of this workshop is to begin building a bridge between these two communities to maximize the relevance, rigor, and generalizability of HCI research.

“Organized UX Professionalism” – An Empirical Study and Conceptual Tool for Scrutinizing UX Work of the Future

“…The distinction between business/organizational UX and professional/specialist UX is becoming blurred and unclear in practice as UX professionals take up organizing and management roles. However, HCI research may implicitly maintain a fundamental opposition between UX professional work and organizational contexts through separate research communities: AIS HCI (Association for Information Systems) that focusses on HCI in business contexts and ACM HCI (Association for Computing Machinery) that focusses on general human-technology interaction [41]; while another important international HCI community with a perhaps broader profile is the IFIP HCI (International Federation for Information Processing). In business-oriented AIS HCI, 80% of the research focuses on HCI in the context of the work/organization and marketplace [81], compared to the surge of interest in non-work contexts in the socalled third wave [15,16] in computer-and design-oriented ACM HCI.…”