Please include HCI more

hello,

I am writing to urge you to include Human-Computer Interaction
professionals more directly in the development of any technical
systems. Technology often makes it easy to believe one is making
progress by applying it, when in fact one is instead inviting various
forms of doom across the threshold. I realize those words might sound
overly dramatic, but they are not wrong: consider that recently Therac
25 style news items have come to light e.g. via the NY Times [1]. When
people blame "user error" what they should probably be blaming is
"error on the part of those who engineered the system in the first
place, which allowed or led to end-user error." Those who do not learn
from history, etc.

sincerely.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/health/24radiation.html
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