Locating the 'big hole' in HCI research

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Locating the 'big hole' in HCI research

In a recent Interactions article, “The Big Hole in HCI Research,” Vassilis Kostakos argued that HCI lacks persistent “motor themes,” based on a co-word analysis of keywords sections from the past 20 years of CHI papers. HCI as a discipline, it is argued, “simply roll[s] from topic to topic, year aft...

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Main Author:	Reeves, Stuart
Format:	Article
Published:	ACM 2015
Subjects:	HCI Research Keywords Motor Themes Science Disciplinarity
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/29280/

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