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Bridging the SE & HCI Communities
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In an attempt to bridge the gaps between Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction the Working Group is hosting a series of workshops alongside major SE and HCI conferences.
Almost half of software in systems being developed today and thirty-seven to fifty percent of efforts throughout the software life cycle are related to the system's user interface. For this reason problems and methods from the field of human-computer interaction affect the overall process of software engineering tremendously, and vice versa. Yet despite these powerful reasons to practice and apply effective SE and HCI method there still exist major gaps of understanding both between suggested practice and how software is actually developed in industry, and between the best practices of each of the fields.
The standard curricula for each field makes little if any reference to the other field and certainly does not teach how to interact with the other field. There are major gaps of communication between the HCI and SE fields: the architectures, processes, methods and vocabulary being used in each community are often foreign to the other community. As a result, product quality is not as high as it could be, and (avoidable) re-work is frequently necessary.
The goal of the workshop series is to create a venue for practitioners and research spanning both areas, and to create an opportunity for SE practitioners and researchers to attend HCI conferences and vice versa!
Last updated January 13, 2004