Top Research Labs in Human-Computer Interaction?

legLess writes: "Jakob Nielsen's latest Useit column lists his opinion of the best HCI research labs, from 'The Dawn of Time' (1945) 'til now. Xerox PARC made the list each decade, naturally. He says that future HCI research is in jeopardy, partly due to Universities backing away from 'real-world' research, and partly because 'HCI has rarely been the first priority of new research organizations, so by the time research managers recognize the need for it and build up a world-class HCI team, it's often too late.' Is he right about the best labs? Is he right about his other conclusions?"

Comments

why bother at all

[z00r]

Let's face it, computers are just a passing fad. In only a few more years we'll all have genetically-engineered austistic monkey slaves.

Re:Microsoft?

[mooZENDog]

Windows may be full of security holes and may be very unstable (well, actually it is IMHO), but one thing that it is good at is with the interface.

I reckon this is because it is designed for the 'autistic monkey slaves' mentioned in the first post.

Fair enough, I say.