I'll eat a few of my words: Dana came up with an example of a job it is practical to do whole hog--take the training and experience the work all the way up to proficiency.
Most of the other examples involve experiencing what it is like to be a novice. Perhaps there are cases where it is fundamentally different to feel the panic of the novice confronted with the full complexity of challenges in a stressful environment, rather than imagining it. But you still have an extremely partial view. After a few days of the simulated novice experience, you'd still need to observe and talk to people to know what it is like to be proficient, as well as to understand the range of variation, the collaborations that happen between people, to know what is truly routine and what kinds of weirdnesses take place outside of the routine. Of course it's good to get as close to the experience as you can get, but it's easy to imagine you know what it's like just because you did it for a day. marijke ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
