1. ADVICE ON PRESENTATIONS      
- 8 minute slots
  - 5-6 minutes for the talk
  - 2-3 minutes for questions

- What's your message?  What are the takeways?

- Carlis: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~carlis/talk-on-talk-1.ps
  - Know your audience
    persuade them
  - Start with messages
    1 or 2 or 3!
    How will you get them across to your audience?
  - Prepare a "topic tree"
  - Know and avoid common mistakes

- http://chronicle.com/jobs/v45/i47/4547ctlyst.htm
- Constraints are your friend

2. WHAT KIND OF FIELD IS HCI / WHERE'S THE THEORY? 
    - Where's the theory?
      HCI Models, Theories, and Frameworks: Jack Carroll, ed. 
      http://www.cs.umd.edu/class/fall2002/cmsc838s/tichi/
      http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/yrogers/hci_theory.html       
      http://www.otal.umd.edu/hci-rm/theory.html            
      http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/classes/Spring-2004/csci5980-terveen/notes/04-2004-01-29.ppt      

      Examples:
      - (Many) Psychological theories (cognitive, social, perceptual)
      E.g., the "collective effort" model from social psychology

      - GOMS: an engineering/design theory based on cogsci concepts

      - Activity Theory (see Nardi's edited book)

      - Situated Action (see Suchman)

      - Distributed Cognition (see Hutchins)

      What does one want from a theory? (see my slides cited above)

    - Academia (the ivory tower) vs. industry
      - Note: technology drives the research!  This seems odd...
      - See Grudin's recent articles in Interactions... and his email

    - Science or engineering or design?

3. RESEARCH METHODS / "WAYS OF KNOWING"

- See Joseph McGrath, Methods for the Study of Groups

- See my notes from Collaborative Computing, Spring 2004
  http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/classes/Spring-2004/csci5980-terveen/notes/03-2004-01-27.ppt
  http://www-users.itlabs.umn.edu/classes/Spring-2004/csci5980-terveen/notes/05-2004-02-03.ppt

 - Each method has different strengths and weaknesses
 - Multiple methods always better
 - Some methods naturall build on others, e.g., ethnographic /
   observational studies are a good way to articulate specific
   hypotheses (--> or identify general questions

- What about "ideas" papers?
  - Think of the Shirky and Lessig readings

   - Heavy burden: there's nothing to judge *except* the
     interestingness (which often necessitates novelty) of the ideas 
     per se
     - no specific design elements
     - no empirical findings
   - I think that if anyone can get away with these, it's eminence
     grise(s)

4. (HCI) CAREER PATHS

   - Consultant
      - Methods!
      - Experience
      - "Cost justifying usability" by Mayhew & Bias
      - Resources: UPA, ACM Interactions

   - Academia / Research Labs
     - Proposal writing / business unit interest / central funding

     - Teaching
       Proportion of research vs. teaching vs. service

     - Professional service
       - "90% of everything is just showing up"
       - Program committees
        - how to get on them
	 - what do they do?
       - Grant panels
        - how to get on them
	 - what do they do

5. WHO IS HCI FOR?
   - Novice vs. expert
     http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ui/
     http://www.otal.umd.edu/UUGuide/jingwu/

     levels, accelerators / shortcuts, multiple input methods,

     - Isn't everyone a novice for some systems?
       - My gas pump story

   - adaptation: system to user vs. user to system
     - sure: Visicalc, Unix... but is it *necessary*?

6. DOES HCI MATTER?
   - Are there (any) HCI breakthroughs with real world consequences?

   - Mouse, GUI, personal computer, notebook computer
   - Hypertext --> web
   - Collaborative filtering / recommender systems
   - User interface toolkits

Things we might have read
- Chapters from the Jack Carroll back
- Sweeney's papers on k-anonymity
- Wanda Orlikowski: Learning from Notes