Confessions of a Technologist who has worked with Psychologists, Artists, Designers, and other Creatures Who are Strange to Me

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Randy Pausch is going to be keynote speaker at CHI 2005. His talk (entitled Confessions of a Technologist who has worked with Psychologists, Artists, Designers, and other Creatures Who are Strange to Me) will deal with a smart issue: Cross-disciplinary collaboration is hard.. He worked as a computer scientists on various projects,c ollaborating with psychologists (to evaluate VR design), designers, artists, neursurgeons... and he found out that:

Some highlights from the talk regarding Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration:

  1. Shotgun marriages don't work
  2. Neither side can be there "in service of" the other
  3. It takes time, patience, and courage
  4. A goal that is "above" either discipline really helps
  5. Different disciplines have different values, moral and otherwise