Em 20-03-2012 16:04, Don Norman escreveu:
Dear Don,
I must apologize for my poor English. What I meant was that Cameron said
that the sentence needed qualification - which I think means more or
less the same as in Portuguese - a characterization, and you answered
talking about needing or not needing citations.
I’m not inside Cameron’s head (thanks God, I’m Lisbon with fine weather
and a beautiful view from my office) but I guess that he didn’t ask you
for citations and you assumed he did. By doing this and trying to escape
from an existing paradigm you were trapped inside it, precisely the
paradigm by which all statements must be supported by citations, simply
because Cameron just asked for characterization and not for citations.
Smile
Eduardo
> I answered with a quotation? Come off it, Eduardo. I didn't want to be
> drawn into an argument on this issue, but to day I provided a "quotation"
> is simply erroneous.
>
> I answered with the statement that the research literature is filled with
> evidence. I provided a link to the Wikipedia article that had many other
> citations, but this was just for one of the many phenomena that were
> relevant. I did not want to spend my day providing research citations for
> what I considered a small part of the paper I was presenting.
>
> The response was to say that the research is irrelevant and that any good
> designer knows how to circumvent the problem. I call that a defensive
> response with zero evidence.
>
> Of course, overlooked in this debate is the fact that in our article,
> Verganti and I attempted to be constructive in suggesting ways that
> designers can overcome this problem. For some reason, I was attacked for a
> statement that stated that the traditional human-centered design method
> was particularly susceptible to being trapped by the existing paradigms.
> Well, I stand by that statement. I believe it is justified through an
> incredible amount of existing psychological research. I believe it applies
> to my own work as well: I have to make a strong effort to avoid being
> captured by existing paradigms.
>
> If some of you wish to discount that, it is your right. But it would be
> useful to see some evidence.
>
> Don
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 5:56 AM, Eduardo Corte-Real<
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>
>> I Terry, it is interesting that Cameron asked for "qualification, if not
>> evidence" and Don answered with quotations. That's a good example of what
>> you are saying.
>> Best,
>> Eduardo
>> Corte-Real Dr Arch. Professor IADE
>>
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