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Straightening Out Softening Up: Response to Carroll and Campbell

Published: 01 July 1987 Publication History

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A source of intellectual overhead periodically encountered by scientists is the call to be "hard," to insure good science by imposing severe methodological strictures. Newell and Card (1985) have undertaken to impose such strictures on the psychology of human-computer interaction. Although their discussion contributes to theoretical debate in human-computer interaction by setting a reference point, their specific argument fails. Their program is unmotivated, is severely limited, and suffers from these limitations in principle. A top priority for the psychology of human-computer interaction should be the articulation of an alternative explanatory program, one that takes as its starting point the need to understand the real problems involved in providing better computer tools for people to use.
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    cover image ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
    ACM SIGCHI Bulletin  Volume 19, Issue 1
    July 1987
    46 pages
    ISSN:0736-6906
    DOI:10.1145/28189
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    Association for Computing Machinery

    New York, NY, United States

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    Published: 01 July 1987
    Published in SIGCHI Volume 19, Issue 1

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