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The need for design history in HCI

Abstract:

HCI scholars, students, and practitioners, should study and be more familiar with the history of computing, generally, and the history of HCI, specifically. Design history is a field with all of the trappings as such: It has a journal, a conference, and several edited readers and graduate programs to educate the next generations of design historians. Most design programs require at least one design history course. In addition, the objects of design history such as posters, toasters, and the like are often included as part of a general studio education, at least through examples provided in class lectures. All of which is to say: Design history isn't some arcane academic practice, but rather something fairly common.