Unifying HCI: The Impossible PosSibility A Reporlfrom The CHI 98 BasicResearchSymposium JosephA. Konstanand Jane Siegel W h a t is the Basic Research Symposium? Each time we mention the Basic Research Symposium (BRS), we are asked this central question. Indeed, if C H I is a conference that publishes the premier research in HCI, than what is the point of having an additional twoday research symposium? There are many answers, but two of them most directly motivated us. First, while C H I is a wonderful venue for learning about all sorts o f research, it cannot provide the time and close contact needed for interdisciplinary research discussions to develop and mature. One key feature of the BRS is that it offers time - time for a collection of researchers to meet each other, learn from each other, and teach each other. Researchers from computer science and psychology and sociology and information science; researchers from all ranks of academia and from industry, researchers from all parts of the world; some researchers just starting their careers and others well-established - all together for two days. Indeed a common point made in feedback from participants is that the BRS provides
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Unifying HCI: the impossible possibility
Konstan, Joseph A.; Siegel, Jane
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, Volume 30 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Oct 1, 1998
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