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Volume 10 ,  Issue 5  (September + October 2003) table of contents
COLUMN: Fast forward table of contents
Pages: 28 - 34  
Year of Publication: 2003
ISSN:1072-5520
Author
Aaron Marcus  Aaron Marcus and Associates, Inc. (AM+A)
Publisher
ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Our profession is debating hotly our professional objectives, techniques, and terminology. User-interface design speaks of users, design, and computer-based systems. Are there terms that would be more helpful to convey the right meaning of users, design, and user-interfaces? For that matter, what should we call ourselves and what we do?