Technology Transfer of HCI Research Innovations
Parmit K. Chilana, Mary P. Czerwinski, Tovi Grossman, Chris G. Harrison, Ranjitha S. Kumar, Tapan S. Parikh, Shumin Zhai · 2015
There has been a longstanding concern within HCI that even though we are accumulating great innovations in the field, we rarely see these innovations develop into products. Our panel brings together HCI researchers from academia and industry who have been directly involved in technology transfer of one or more HCI innovations. They will share their experiences around what it takes to transition an HCI innovation from the lab to the market, including issues around time commitment, funding, resources, and business expertise. More importantly, our panelists will discuss and debate the tensions that we (researchers) face in choosing design and evaluation methods that help us make an HCI research contribution versus what actually matters when we go to market.