In Search of UX Translators: Analyzing Researcher-Practitioner Interactions on Twitter

In Search of UX Translators: Analyzing Researcher-Practitioner Interactions on Twitter. Brier, J., Gray, C. M, & Kou, Y. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, of DIS '17 Companion, pages 111–115, New York, NY, USA, June, 2017. Association for Computing Machinery.

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Interest in the nature of HCI practice has increased in the past decade, particularly in relation to the role and existence of ``translators'' that may bridge the gap between research and UX practice. At present, there is insufficient research to appropriately define and identify the activities of translators, and we hope to provoke additional interest in this area by documenting the UX-focused interactions on Twitter. In this work-in-progress, we identified and visualized interactions among a stratified set of UX practitioners and practitioner-academic hybrids on Twitter, analyzing their interactions to understand what relationships and roles may exist. We found few potential translators, and none from a primarily academic perspective. We identify implications and provocations from this visualization and Twitter analysis approach for future practice-led research.

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