The UI for this is infuriating. Interview older contributors first. Seek BIPoC and women, too. Be sure to interview people in manufacturing, too, not just top people. Hire Anthropologists and other true ethnographers to do this work.https://twitter.com/lorenterveen/status/1312034834827673601 …
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As long as he can accurately represent the whole culture, that's great! Having worked here for decades, and done my fieldwork here for my dissertation, I can say that there are so many pieces and people to consider, that I hope you get many perspectives.
This both raises an important point, but also contains an implicit assumption that can't be satisfied: no one person can "accurately represent any whole culture". However, Jeff is an eminently qualified historian of computing technology, so he is a very good choice. Further...
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yes, there are lots of people and places to consider. Our current focus -- which we developed in part through responses to a widely circulated survey -- is to focus on "pioneers" of the field as centered in the ACM SIGCHI community. This initial focus is reasonable, we believe...
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but also definitely does focus on certain places and people. We aren't saying this is the whole (his)story, of course, but a reasonable place to begin is with people who helped shape the field and (mostly) are in their 70s and 80s.
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