Academic HCI seems irrelevant to contemporary invention in computing

Alas, academic Human-computer interaction

References

  • Pike, R. (2000). Systems Software Research is Irrelevant
    • “The web happened in the early 1990s and it surprised the computer science community as much as the commercial one.”
    • “Many person-years are required to write a modern,realistic system. That is beyond the scope of most university departments. Also, the time scale is long: from design to final version can be five years. Again, that’s beyond the scope of most grad students.”
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