Let's stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a reference task agenda for HCI

Steve Whittaker; Loren Terveen; Bonnie A. Nardi

doi:10.1207/S15327051HCI1523_2

Let's stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a reference task agenda for HCI

Steve Whittaker, Loren Terveen, Bonnie A. Nardi

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A problem with the process of research in the human-computer interaction (HCI) community is addressed, in particular, an overemphasis on 'radical invention' at the price of achieving a common research focus. As a solution, it is proposed that the HCI community should achieve a common focus around the notion of reference tasks. Arguments for the advantages of the approach as well as potential difficulties are given.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	75-106
Number of pages	32
Journal	Human-Computer Interaction
Volume	15
Issue number	2-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1207/S15327051HCI1523_2
State	Published - 2000

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Information retrieval is another discipline in which a core set of tasks and shared data have been used to successfully drive research. The Text REtrieval Conference (TREC; Voorhees & Harman, 1997, 1998), sponsored by the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), plays a role analogous to the DARPA speech recognition workshops.

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