TY - JOUR AU1 - Bardzell, Jeffrey AU2 - Bardzell, Shaowen AB - Humanistic HCI Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell Indiana University Bloomington C O V E R S T O RY IM A G E B Y NI C K G E N T R Y © 2 016 A R T I S T S R I G H T S S O C IE T Y ( A R S) , NE W Y O R K / D A C S , L O ND O N Insights Humanistic approaches often feature or emphasize history and tradition, conceptual analysis, interpretation, and social action. Common humanistic HCI practices include interaction criticism, critical discourse analysis, critical social science, design futuring, and emancipatory HCI. Humanistic essays are rigorous, but not in the way that scientific reports are; they should be reviewed accordingly. INTER ACTIONS. ACM.ORG It is unconventional, perhaps narcissistic, to speak first of ourselves. However, a value of humanistic thought is a reflexive awareness of the conditions of one's own knowing, and also a disclosure to one's audience of who is speaking. Readers should know who is telling this story, for both its strengths and its weaknesses reflect the particular positions from which its authors speak. Another value of TI - Cover story: Humanistic HCI JF - interactions DO - 10.1145/2888576 DA - 2016-02-24 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/association-for-computing-machinery/cover-story-humanistic-hci-J1WP0c14JK SP - 20 VL - 23 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -