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Concepts, Values, and Methods for Technical Human–Computer Interaction Research

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Technical HCI research seeks to improve the world by expanding the set of things that can be done with computational systems. This chapter considers this work as invention—the creation of new things—contrasted with activities of discovery which are concerned more with understanding the world. We discuss the values, goals, and criteria for success in this approach. Technical HCI research includes both directly contributing to some human need and indirectly contributing by enabling other technical work with things like toolkits.

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    The ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, which is the largest HCI conference and seen by many as the most prestigious publication venue for HCI work.

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    This is the rate of display refresh (which is typically 50 or 60 times per second in order to avoid perceived flicker). This rate is of particular interest because even if internal updates to visual material occur faster than this, they will still never be presented to the user any faster than this.

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Hudson, S.E., Mankoff, J. (2014). Concepts, Values, and Methods for Technical Human–Computer Interaction Research. In: Olson, J., Kellogg, W. (eds) Ways of Knowing in HCI. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8_4

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