Don,
I read your NRC keynote with interest.
Here is one of mine from 1989
http://communication.org.au/publications/practical-advice/practical-solutions-to-the-interface-crisis/36,29.html
We move on!
David
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On 27/01/2012, at 2:27 AM, Don Norman wrote:
> Back to the disagreement between Terry and me, but just for a moment.
> I agree with Ken: Terry tells it as it should be. I like to think I
> tell it as it really is. I really want to agree with Terry. His heart
> is in the right place. Alas, that is not how I see the world.
> -----
> So here is my voice from authority. All of you are completely free to disagree.
>
> I was asked to give a keynote address to the members of the National
> Research Council's (NRC) Board on Human-System Integration (BOHSI)
> last year on the 30th year anniversary of HSI. The NRC is the
> research arm of the three official technologyNational Academies:
> Academy of Science (NAS), Engineering (NAE) and the Institute of
> Medicine (IOM: when IOM was started, there was an intense political
> fight and the NAS and NAE refused to let it be called an "Academy."
> Scientists and Engineers can be very petty.)
>
> When HSI (sorry for all the acronyms) was started it was Human
> Factors, but after many years of no progress in the Academies, they
> renamed themselves Human-System Integration as a better description of
> what they did. See
> http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bohsi/index.html
>
> anyway, here is my talk.
>
> http://jnd.org/dn.mss/why_human_systems_integration_fails_and_why_the_university_is_the_problem.html
> Why Human Systems Integration Fails (And Why the University Is the Problem)
>
> How was it received? Far too well. As a result, I've been asked to
> serve on a lot more NAE/NRC committees.
>
> Caveat: It takes a long time to get into NAE or even the NRC
> committee. You have to have had a successful career. So perhaps the
> committee is made up of all those old folks who are not keeping up
> with modern times, like me. Form your own opinion.
>
> Don
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