The HCI "look"
A lot of times people who learn I'm in computer science at CMU immediately ask if I'm in HCI. What is it that brands me as HCI--is it my PowerBook (with haute leopard foofbag), my smile, or that I'm female?I know Mac users in programming languages, some very smiley robo grads, and plenty of guys in HCI. Are other CS departments as recognizable as HCI? Do the LTI grads carry Saussure in their back pocket and have the glazed look of deep semantic thought?
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Google says:
*Habitat for Humanity International
*Healing Hands International
*Heinrich Hertz Institut (Germany)
Am I missing a critical TLA or is it just a typo?
women are statistically more likely to be in hci. designers are statistically more likely to carry foofoo bags, and designers are only in hci. presenting yourself with charm is decidedly un-cs.
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this is not to suggest that hci people are immune from leaving their fly unzipped all day
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i love that foofoo bag is actually a brand name. talk about your onomatopoetic words!
Patrick
P.S. Is or is HCI not part of CS? I thought it was.
Jason: Well, actually, I am reading General Course in Linguistics right now, so your mis-read wasn't so far off. Well, I've been on page four for about three weeks now, but I'm hoping I'll be enthusiastic about it soon, too.
After reading that book I felt vaguely satisfied that I had read it, but it was never particularly exciting --- a lot of his ideas have been so well accepted and integrated into the basic assumptions of the field that it's hard to know which things he's saying really were exciting at the time unless you know a lot of the historical context, which I don't.