Human-computer interaction (HCI) is the branch of computer science that builds on social sciences and humanities. What does it mean, and what does it take, to have HCI as your profession? We explain what you must understand, in order to be one of the 1% of applicants who get into HCI schools, and the even smaller group of people who go on to make a living from it. ON OUR WEBSITE https://designdisciplin.com/hci-profession VISIT OUR AFFILIATES AND SPONSORS TO SUPPORT US - Framer – the best website builder: https://www.framer.com?via=designdisciplin - ProtoPie – the best hi-fi prototyping tool: https://www.protopie.io/?ref=designdisciplin - LucidChart – the best way to create diagrams: https://try.lucid.co/dd LINKS - Conceptions of the Discipline of HCI: Craft, Applied Science, and Engineering by John Long and John Dowell: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/15292/1/15292.pdf - Essence and Existence in Thomistic Philosophy: https://aquinasonline.com/essence-and-existence/ - HCI Research as Problem-Solving by Antti Oulasvirta and Kasper Hornbæk: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2858036.2858283 - HCI Theory: Classical, Modern, and Contemporary by Yvonne Rogers: https://www.morganclaypool.com/doi/abs/10.2200/S00418ED1V01Y201205HCI014 - Human–computer interaction: A stable discipline, a nascent science, and the growth of the long tail by Alan Dix: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0953543809000952 - Human Computer Interaction - Brief Intro by John M. Carroll: https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/book/the-encyclopedia-of-human-computer-interaction-2nd-ed/human-computer-interaction-brief-intro - Interaction Criticism: A Proposal and Framework for a New Discipline of HCI by Jeffrey Bardzell and Shaowen Bardzell: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/1358628.1358703 - Making epistemological trouble: Third-paradigm HCI as successor science by Steve Harrison, Phoebe Sengers, and Deborah Tatar: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8149660 - Post-cognitivist HCI: Second-Wave Theories by Victor Kaptelinin et al.: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/765891.765933 - Revisiting the Three HCI Waves: A Preliminary Discussion on Philosophy of Science and Research Paradigms by Emanuel Felipe Duarte and M. Cecília C. Baranauskas: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3033701.3033740 - The Psychology of Human-Computer Interaction by Stuart Card, Thomas Moran, and Allen Newell: https://geni.us/psychology-of-hci - The Three Paradigms of HCI by Steve Harrison, Deborah Tatar, and Phoebe Sengers: https://people.cs.vt.edu/srh/Downloads/HCIJournalTheThreeParadigmsofHCI.pdf - The Three Waves of HCI: A Perspective from Social Sciences by Mayra Sousa Resende, Willian Perpétuo Busch, and Roberto Pereira: http://capaihc.dainf.ct.utfpr.edu.br/artigos/CAPA17_paper_5.pdf - Third-Wave HCI, 10 Years Later – Participation and Sharing by Susanne Bødker: https://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/september-october-2015/third-wave-hci-10-years-later-participation-and-sharing - When Second Wave HCI Meets Third Wave Challenges by Susanne Bødker: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1182475.1182476 SOCIAL Website: http://designdisciplin.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/designdisciplin/ TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@designdisciplin Instagram: http://instagram.com/designdisciplin/ Main YouTube: http://youtube.com/@designdisciplin Podcast YouTube: http://youtube.com/@designdisciplin_podcast Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/design-disciplin/id1553829029 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6VqYFGscuM2UVgtdZfk1hr CHAPTERS 00:00 Intro 05:05 HCI is academic research 09:48 HCI is computer science 12:22 HCI builds on social sciences and humanities 16:29 Closing