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