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HCI impact and uncitedness
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Volume 15 ,  Issue 3  (May + June 2008) table of contents
Optimistic futurism
SECTION: The Challenge at the Interface table of contents
Pages 45-47  
Year of Publication: 2008
ISSN:1072-5520
Author
John Hopson  Microsoft Game Studios
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

For this issue it's my pleasure to introduce John Hopson, who is one of the rising stars in the user research department at Microsoft Game Studios. John's column is a thoughtful and personal reflection on the purpose and our practice of applied research. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did. ---Dennis Wixon


CITED BY
Ian Scott MacKenzie, Citedness, uncitedness, and the murky world between, Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 04-09, 2009, Boston, MA, USA

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

Additional Classification:
  K. Computing Milieux
  K.8 PERSONAL COMPUTING
      K.8.0 General


REVIEW

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Human-computer interaction (HCI) is the study of the interrelationship between users and computers. As a field of study, it requires looking at the intersection of understanding human behavior with understanding how machines operate.

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