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Summary: How do Design and Evaluation Interrelate in HCI
Research?
Christine E. Wania, Michael E. Atwood, Katherine W. McCain
College of Information Science and Technology
Drexel University
3141 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
cew29@drexel.edu, michael.atwood@ischool.drexel.edu, kate.mccain@ischool.drexel.edu
ABSTRACT
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is defined by the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special
Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI)
as "a discipline concerned with the design, evaluation, and
implementation of interactive computing systems for
human use and with the study of the major phenomenon
surrounding them" [18]. In HCI there are authors that focus
more on designing for usability and there are authors that
focus more on evaluating usability. The relationship
between these communities is not really clear. We use
author cocitation analysis, multivariate techniques, and
visualization tools to explore the relationships between
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