Human-Computer Interaction // Metamuse podcast episode 6

You can also work in HCI as a practitioner, such as an engineer, and do product work and engage with the community.

38:45 - Great tips on how to dig into the literature with Google Scholar

40:30-50:00 discussion of community overlap between academic & product designer or engineers.

Bottom Line: Anyone can step into this world without a degree.

Refer to Ben Reinhardt on how this stuff gets funding.

• Independent research lab, such as Inc & Switch, where they try to research for commercialization on a longer timeline by cutting off the corporation part of the equation

• Corporate R&D, usually requires commercialization on a very short timeline.

• Academic HCI work, where your output is published papers & it's very competitive. 

32:00 Three ways to get research HCI

• 31:00 The aim is to bring the best parts across such as zero latency for your digital pen to respond, but then expanding the potential of what you can do now that you’re in a computing / virtual space.

• 26:34 - A “big source of inspiration for me [Mark] has been the world of analog tools. We’ve been thinking about how to build good digital tools for maybe 50 years or so. We have a couple thousand years of explicit and implicit study of how to create analog work environments.” Eg: personal libraries, studies, workshops, artist studios. How can we... See more

• Status quo should not be underestimated, nor always messed with.