Philip Barnard
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A significant proportion of early HCI research was guided by one very clear vision: that the existing theory base in psychology and cognitive science could be developed to yield engineering tools for use in the interdisciplinary context of HCI design. While interface technologies and heuristic methods for behavioral evaluation have rapidly advanced in both capability and breadth of application, progress toward deeper theory has been modest, and some now believe it to be unnecessary. A case is presented for developing new forms of theory, based around generic “systems of interactors.” An overlapping, layered structure of macro- and microtheories could then serve an explanatory role, and could also bind together contributions from the different disciplines. Novel routes to formalizing and applying such theories provide a host of interesting and tractable problems for future basic research in HCI.
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The authors address the limitations of approaches to theory that currently guides Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) models of interaction. It was noted that the HCI field has become a boundless domain of study given the interdisciplinary context of HCI design. The authors contend that theory development has produced essential, yet "unconnected local theories" of HCI, and lacking is a generic model that seeks to bind together contributions from different disciplines. The thesis of the article is a comprehensive argument for developing new forms of theory, based around a generic "systems of interactors." The authors discuss systems of interactors, macrotheory, microtheory, and how various subsystems interact to form a cohesive theory that can be approached from different views. The article is intended for HCI theorists and developers to bridge the gap between design theory and specialized approaches to systems analysis applied to software development. The article is rather lengthy, but is comprehensive in scope. Figures are helpful in demonstrating the connections of interactors that make up a system. Excellent references are used. This is a strong theory article that leads to a higher level of understanding of the need for comprehensive HCI theories.
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