Use it yourself and keep improving it.

HCI Research Toy Controversy - Togetter After spending two years in a popular neglected & miscellaneous lab in the Department of Information Science and Systems Informatics at the University of Tokyo (postscript)

I think this is an interesting point here.

• I use what I make.”
  • (Related Use your own deliverables.)
  • If you don’t use it yourself, “integrity dictates that you make an effort to have the research results put in.”
• Another expression
  • Make the deliverables available to others than yourself
  • Publish detailed production instructions.
  • Use it yourself and keep improving it.

• @shokai: “I feel like this field of research (HCI) is full of twisting logic and justification for seemingly useless toys.”

• I can’t help but wonder what this is all about now.

• You’re not using what you’ve made, and you’re thinking defensively at the same time when you’re making up the concept.

• Novelty is not the same as usefulness. Element

• Peer review looks for novelty and holes in the experiments and methods of argumentation.

• Anything can be made useful by specifying extreme situations (HCI makes this easy thanks to the Human element).

• The best tactic to create novelty easily is to make strange things that even you don’t use because of these factors.

• I personally call it novelty (patentability).

• I would think that in other engineering fields, the value of the extreme situation setting itself would be sifted to some extent by market needs (such as the fact that such a network configuration is useless).

• The extreme situation setting by the Human element is strong because it can be used as an invincible shield that can never be beaten if it is well-spoken, poly-colored, etc.

• [* If you set up an extreme situation, I think the integrity is whether or not you are making an effort to get your research results in there.

• make the results available to others than yourself, publish detailed production methods, use it yourself and keep improving it, etc., if you don’t see any of these

• It looks like you’re toying with the Human element to make it useful.

• It’s just that it’s not fair to act like it’s convenient when you don’t think it’s convenient or necessary yourself.

• That’s all there is to it.

relevance

• [/masui/ Don’t publish what you don’t use](https://scrapbox.io/masui/ Don’t publish what you don’t use). - Don’t publish what you won’t use.

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