SIGIA-L Mail Archives: RE: SIGIA-L: Interesting Publicity
RE: SIGIA-L: Interesting Publicity
From: Dave Harland (dave.harland_at_tallan.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 16:56:39 EST
True; but below is the response I received from a programmer and I
believe the response would be similar (Elitist) across the board.
"The problem with this article is the emphasis on computer scientists.
Scientist - One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one
devoted to scientific study; a savant (dictionary.com)
At some point, people began equating computer scientists with
programmers or ("shudder") consultants. Although the study of creating
useful interfaces is a valid scientific field, the emphasis of the
research would be on determining new ways of interfacing with a
computer. Actually designing interfaces on a day to day basis is not
what these people are being prepared for. In my opinion, they should
NOT be prepared for this eventuality. Colleges need to start
differentiating between the scientist and the developer/programmer. The
world of PowerBuilder, VB, dropdowns and group boxes belong to the world
of Computer Programming Technologies (CPT) or the like. The world of
minimum cost spanning trees, hardware architecture, etc. is the world of
computer science. In other words, we should be developing the concept
of development as a trade and leave the scientific study to the
scientists."
-Dave
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Dave Harland
Director, Creative Practice
Tallán
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Mobile: 757.348.5310
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org [mailto:owner-sigia-l_at_asis.org] On Behalf
Of Ziya Oz
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 3:48 PM
To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
Subject: Re: SIGIA-L: Interesting Publicity
Dave Harland wrote:
>
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/printedition/chi-0202250013feb25.
column
> ?coll=chi%2Dprintbusiness%2Dhed
Interesting in the peculiar sense that this is bad news for IAs.
Companies
already have to hire programmers, without whom the site doesn't get
built.
Now all they have to do is to pretend that the interface/architecture
issues
are also covered since the programmers will have been exposed to HCI.
Cheap
solution. Mission accomplished. Who needs IAs? :-)
Best,
Ziya
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