Incollection,
Local sciences: viewing the design of human-computer systems as cognitive science
Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface (Cambridge Series on Human-Computer Interaction), Cambridge University Press, New York, NY, (1991)
Abstract
The question of whether or not a body of scientific knowledge exist that can significantly inform the design of human systems is in hot debate. My position is not so much that such knowledge already exists, but that it can now be generated. I claim that design can serve not only as an application of emerging cognitive principles but, more radically, that design can serve as a central part of the scientific work that generates those principles. Finally, I hope to show that the Boxer project group at the University of California, Berkeley, is helping to generate such principles and reaping benefit from them.
