TY - JOUR AU - Reeves, Stuart PY - 2015/10/05 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Human-computer interaction as science JF - Aarhus Series on Human Centered Computing JA - AAHCC VL - 1 IS - 1 SE - The Alternative Rhetorics of HCI DO - 10.7146/aahcc.v1i1.21296 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/ashcc/article/view/21296 SP - 12 AB - <div class="page" title="Page 1"><div class="layoutArea"><div class="column"><p><span>The human-computer interaction (HCI) has had a long and troublesome relationship to the role of ‘science’. HCI’s status as an academic object in terms of coherence and adequacy is often in question—leading to desires for establishing a true scientific discipline. In this paper I explore formative cognitive science influences on HCI, through the impact of early work on the design of input devices. The paper discusses a core idea that I argue has animated much HCI research since: the notion of scientific design spaces. In evaluating this concept, I disassemble the broader ‘picture of science’ in HCI and its role in constructing a disciplinary order for the increasingly diverse and overlapping research communities that contribute in some way to what we call ‘HCI’. In concluding I explore notions of rigour and debates around how we might reassess HCI’s disciplinarity.</span></p></div></div></div> ER -