I am attached to the human-computer interaction (HCI) team at NRC, and ever since that placement I have railed against this characterization of my work, and especially against interpretations that reduce it to things like user testing and interface design. This paper takes a much broader approach. The seven grand challenges are as follows:
- Human-technology symbiosis
- Human-environment interactions
- Ethics, privacy and security
- Well-being, health and eudaimonia
- Accessibility and universal access
- Learning and creativity
- Social organization and democracy
While I have been critical of our definitions of HCI in the past, this list (in addition to being research-supportive) looks inclusive enough to take in the interests of our group as a whole, and also has the advantage of setting out the challenges we're interested in. For myself, I am quite interested in items 3,5,6 and 7 (and also eudaimona as discussed by Umair Haque). it would be interesting to see these mapped against NRC strategic goals, and against the different programs.
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