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Top Research Labs in Human-Computer Interaction?

Posted by timothy on from the hard-work-making-things-easy dept.

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?"

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  1. why bother at all by z00r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

    1. Re:why bother at all by deanj · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yeah, and they'll make a beowulf cluster of us too. eeek! eeek!

    2. Re:why bother at all by Sir+Beavis · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Of course there is ballz here

  2. Re:Microsoft? by mooZENDog · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    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.

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  3. Re:Why are you asking f*cking idots on /.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    are you still here ??? -- putz

  4. Re:Why are you asking f*cking idots on /.? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey, that's Klerck's job!!!