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When is a user not a user?: Who are we? What do we do?

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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)

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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?

CITED BY

Richard I. Anderson, Meeting the needs of the "user experience" professional, CHI '05 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 02-07, 2005, Portland, OR, 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)