Ben Shneiderman: Making A Difference 2001 Camille Dickson-Deane, Computers & Society editor University of Missouri-Columbia camilledd@acm.org [Q1]: Looking back, what was it that first sparked your interest in HCI? [A]: My background was in traditional computer science, technically oriented but I always had a very eclectic outlook on life. My parents were journalists and my sister an English professor, so the human condition was very much part of my outlook; it was natural in the early days of programming to take a look at the designs of programs to see that they would become readable and comprehensible. The use of meaningful variable names, good layout, modular design, clear comments were all issues that intrigued me. When I was an early graduate student I worked with my dear friend Charles Kreitzberg to write a book called The Elements of Fortran Style which tried to capture these recommendations for making comprehensible and therefore debuggable and maintainable programs. That work naturally led me down the path to say, Were the recommendations that we were making legitimate? , so the idea of running controlled experiments naturally ensued. Of course, we had to refine and transform traditional experimental psychology methods to fit this
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Ben Shneiderman: making a difference 2001
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