Re: Forming relationships with consumers?

David Dirlam (ddirlam who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Wed, 5 Nov 1997 16:18:10 -0800 (PST)

On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Unalome Pim Techamuanvivit wrote:
>
> Cynthia, I'll see you at the Usability Professional Association
> conference next year. My manager, Janice James, asked me to send
> something there too. I'm working on a paper titled "Rethinking
> Usability: Ecological (in?)validity in Usability Research."
>
> Pim
>
Pim and Cynthia:
I would be very interested in papers by both of you. I am
currently working on a grant proposal that would allow me to develop a
program for teaching cultural psychology to students who are headed
for a wide variety of workplace environments.
You both might be interested in one of my findings from ecological
modeling of competing cultural practices. Often, after a fast growing
practice overwhelms its last competitor, it goes extinct itself. The
basic argument is in my *Mind, Culture, and Activity* paper from earlier
this year.

David