Through involvement in on-going development projects, we investigated issues brought about by having interface specialists rather than generally trained system development staff designing and developing interfaces. This article reports on some of the issues raised, discusses the activities associated with this project and points out differences in the perceptions of the tasks seen as relevant to this role by a human factors professional and by systems development staff.
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