Human-Computer Interaction // Metamuse podcast episode 6

• 31:00 The aim is to bring the best parts across such as zero latency for your digital pen to respond, but then expanding the potential of what you can do now that you’re in a computing / virtual space.

23:00 - 31:00 Discussion of striking a balance between maintaining the status quo vs coming up with new ways of interacting with computers so we don’t get stuck in a rut trying to translate everything too directly.

• It goes back to first principles. By and large, the reality is that a lot of usability is driven by the cognitive architecture that is... See more

You can also work in HCI as a practitioner, such as an engineer, and do product work and engage with the community.

38:45 - Great tips on how to dig into the literature with Google Scholar

40:30-50:00 discussion of community overlap between academic & product designer or engineers.

Bottom Line: Anyone can step into this world without a degree.

• Status quo should not be underestimated, nor always messed with.

1:30 Definition of HCI (Human-Computer Interaction)

12:00-21:35 Discussion of the scientific and academic literature that observes computing practices as "folk practices" and ethnographic studies. Through the lens of cognitive science and behavioral science. Reading older texts even today proves to be so fundamental, bold, and innovative, even 15-20... See more

21:40 - Science is good at the long game of extending the tip of human knowledge. While brazen startups are good at acting boldly off of naïveté.

• 26:34 - A “big source of inspiration for me [Mark] has been the world of analog tools. We’ve been thinking about how to build good digital tools for maybe 50 years or so. We have a couple thousand years of explicit and implicit study of how to create analog work environments.” Eg: personal libraries, studies, workshops, artist studios. How can we... See more

• Corporate R&D, usually requires commercialization on a very short timeline.

• Independent research lab, such as Inc & Switch, where they try to research for commercialization on a longer timeline by cutting off the corporation part of the equation