Frustration about pursuing academia in the field of HCI

20230408 About Life

• I’ve always thought that what I want to do aligns the most with what the academic world in the HCI field is doing.

  • Like Exploring New Models through Implementation.
  • More accurately, it’s the “academic world in the field that matches my interests in the vicinity of HCI.”
    • The concept of HCI is very ambiguous, and there is no reason to be bound by what is called HCI.
  • It gives me more motivation than aiming for SWE, for example.
    • Related: Life on the Software Engineering Path, Life on the Software Engineering Path, I Want to Think About Life Assuming AGI

• However, I have always had a vague feeling towards the “academic world of the HCI field.”

  • Talks like Meaning of HCI Research and even HCI Toy Theory are a bit off-topic, but they contribute to this feeling.
  • Also, the narrowness of the world I felt at UIST2022.

• I thought that this vague feeling would clear up if I think about it in the following way:

  • Use the academic world of HCI as a community and environment.
    • Community as a Means
  • On the other hand, do not make the evaluation axis of HCI academia the purpose of my actions.
    • Specifically, not making the goal of my actions to get papers accepted at top conferences, for example.
    • I don’t want to make the evaluation axis determined by the mutual evaluation of this small community the purpose of my actions.
      • Especially in a field like HCI, which is an ambiguous discipline (?).
    • I think this is where my vague feeling was coming from (blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo).
      • I think it was because I mistakenly believed that “going into academia means living according to the evaluation axis of academia.”
      • Academia is not closed.
      • In fact, the people I admire in the HCI community (?) don’t live that way either.
    • I want to place the purpose of my actions in a different place and Decision-Making Ignoring Frameworks.
      • Pursuing things like Articulation of Thoughts 2023 - Talking about Virtual Time or Living in a Way that Clears the Fog of the World.

• Trying to make a living solely by excelling in academia seems like a Hard Mode life.

  • If I can do more Decision-Making Ignoring Frameworks, maybe other paths will become visible? That’s how I feel.
  • (Or maybe I’ll starve without seeing them) (I don’t know about this).
  • But it’s a field that is very close to applications, so there seem to be various ways to approach it.

@drinami: “Hmm… as self-proclaimed, they seem like a typical sports-oriented researcher…” That’s my honest impression. Because they only talk about goals and dreams, like becoming the top or the number of papers, is it just a PDCA cycle for paper production? > RT @drinami: When their long-cherished dream comes true and they become a superstar or a top researcher in their field? Even if they don’t become a research PI, I can’t help but worry about what they want to achieve when they “win” a position. @drinami: In the document, they are lumped together as genius types, but I think the ”Culture-Oriented Researcher” who is driven by inner motivation, such as the questions they want to clarify or the problems they want to solve, rather than external achievements, is not just a handful of geniuses but a large group in the research industry.

• This is it (blu3mo)(blu3mo)(blu3mo).
  • I want to become a ”Culture-Oriented Researcher.”
  • Togetter: The Way of Researchers as Told by Professor Toyoharu Nishida- I realized once again that I am greatly influenced by (drinami), as (blu3mo) said.