HCI as an Inter-Discipline

This paper responds to a 2014 paper by Liu et al seeking a quantifiable thematic core to CHI. As an alternative, I argue that CHI should strategically avoid the search for such a core, instead seeking its identity as a mode of responding and contributing to other disciplines.

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