What's going on? I may be dumb, but the best usability test subjects are. Is the interaction design of this forum an experiment? I posted a reply to William. It's gone. I received a reply in my mail-box I cannot see in the thread??? Sorry, it just blows my mind to see something like that in a forum like this!
As I hope you have already guessed, I'm trying to provoke a reaction. No doubt that these two disciplines are each relevant in their own right. But they have much more in common than usability people (I use the term very broadly) tend to acknoledge. And the discipline of usability being so young, it would bebenefit greatly by looking more closely at some of the language/communication theory classics. No reason to invent the wheel all over again. Paul, Just like usability (again very broadly defined) language theory have been assisted and developed by all kinds of disciplines dealing with the human being (mind and body). You will of course need to fit it to your branch of communication, but I can recommend Grice's co-operative principle and four maxims to introduce some very basic, but important understandings of pragmatics, and Sperber and Wilson "Relevance" (the later got me an "A" in the usability exam at Copenhagen IT University - my only formal usability credentials). - Grice, Paul H 1967: Logic and Conversation. i Cole & Morgan 1975 - Sperber, Dan & Wilson, Deidre 2. udgave 1995: Relevance - Communication and Cognition. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=44465 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
