HCI in domains: common ground and key differences

For quite a while, human-computer interaction (HCI) cannot be restricted to a group of computer gurus who provide their research results to a wider audience of consumers. HCI is more integrated in domains such as aerospace (Boy et al., 1998), medicine, education, entertainment and process control. Domains specialists need to handle HCI issues because they are much more involved in their domain needs and requirements than everyone else. These people have recognized the need to meet in order to discuss their specific domain-dependent issues in HCI. However, specificity is not their only concern. They also need to know what is being done in other domains where potential similar solutions could be of immense interest to them. Knowledge sharing in HCI is a very important issue that need to be further investigated, not from a top-down manner, but from a bottom-up manner. This is another way to produce scientific results by comparing, abstracting and categorizing results from different domains but significantly similar from an HCI perspective.