Saturday, December 28, 2013
Inviting Comments
Since this is set up on Blogger and since Blogger isn't all that post-friendly, unless one of you brilliant people can tell me how to open it so anyone can post on the blog as a post rather than as a comment, for now, how about putting your thoughts, comments, and remembrances here as comments? Sorry my brain is kinda frozen and I can't figure out another way right now.
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Gary was an encouraging, welcoming, successful researcher, working on very difficult problems with a great attitude. He was a leader who acted very humbly. He was a great listener, and a great communicator. He was one of those people I always looked forward to meeting at conferences, with his smile, his kindness, and a natural ability to make you feel better after chatting with you.
ReplyDeleteWorld of HCI is very English centric. The language we use when communicating with fellow researchers and practitioners around the world is mostly English. There is nothing wrong with that, if we remember that there are other languages that influence the way people think and perceive the world- and that ability to speak English does not correlate with the intelligence. Gary was a person who genuinely understood this. He spoke English as his native language, but understood that there are so many people who have stories worth hearing, but who have difficulties in expressing these things in English. Also in world of HCI there are many smart practitioners and reserchers who cannot join the witty conversations so common to our domain.
ReplyDeleteChange of plans: Instead of posting here as comments, please send them to me (firstname DOT last name AT dray.com) and I will post them as blog posts. I've done this with your posts, Anne and JP. Thanks a lot!
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