In a booming field with its origins in academia, why do Human Computer Interaction (HCI, UX) practitioners and academics not engage? @gilescolborne's talk from CHI 2019 tries to answer that question, discusses why previous attempts have failed, and shows how we can learn from other people's successes.
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Academia Practice
Status within academia
Audience: other researchers
Seek open sharing
Research = primary activity
Well defined answers
Empirical
Status within corporations
Audience: non-practitioners
Seek strategic advantage
Little time for research
Good enough answers
Pragmatic
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A common goal: improving access to higher education
A compelling reason to work together: impact
A new space: not within academia or practice
Embracing vulnerability: a willingness to admit ignorance
23. @gilescolborne
A common goal: improving access to higher education
A compelling reason to work together: impact
A new space: not within academia or practice
Embracing vulnerability: a willingness to admit ignorance
24. @gilescolborne
A common goal: improving access to higher education
A compelling reason to work together: impact
A new space: not within academia or practice
Embracing vulnerability: a willingness to admit ignorance
25. @gilescolborne
A common goal: improving access to higher education
A compelling reason to work together: impact
A new space: not within academia or practice
Embracing vulnerability: a willingness to admit ignorance
26. @gilescolborne
My take home:
You can open up spaces for new kinds of learning and
sharing without needing to change whole systems.
This isn’t about changing structures,

it’s about ways of being, mindset.
It isn’t about who’s right, it’s about how we can learn
together.
I take this with me. Always.
Rae Tooth, CEO, Villiers Park
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How could we create a shared space for academics and practitioners
to work together?
• What important goals do we share?
• What value are we looking for?
• How do we create a shared space and embrace vulnerability?
• What do we have to let go of?
• What’s the simplest way we can make this happen?
How do we move from prototyping this, to delivering it at scale?
• What can we learn from familiar models?

Discover-Alpha-Beta-Live

Kotter’s Change Model
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From the very early days of this work

http://instone.org/uxrpi-update
The CFP for the CHI 2010 workshop

http://luminanze.com/blog/conferences/cfp-chi-2010-workshop-on-researcher-practitioner-interaction/
Don Norman’s thoughts at about the same time

http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/july-august-2010/the-research-practice-gap1
Five years old but a good analysis of the situation then

http://instone.org/uxrpi-blogtopic
CFP for a CHI 2013 SIG

https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/354136/1/354136.pdf
More recent

https://www.slideshare.net/instone/instone-uxrpi-decipher-summary

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszsr/files/hci-ux-symposium-report.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317487141_In_Search_of_UX_Translators_Analyzing_Researcher-
Practitioner_Interactions_on_Twitter
https://faculty.washington.edu/garyhs/docs/colusso_dis2017_researchpractice.pdf
How academics and practitioners successfully integrated in another field

https://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ceehe/index.php/iswp/issue/view/9