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 I also think that the idea of a special HCI/UI group is different from the
 regular concerns of cog-eng. I tend to look at interfaces from the aesthetic
 design end, as an art, and I've never felt that many of the cog-eng folks can
 draw anything more then smiley faces -- not a put down, I accept visual
 dyslexia as a fact of academic life. :->  If you can't draw or really design
 aethetic environments you tend to wait till the end to call in the artists,
 which is about how interface design has been done to date. I realize that
 there are exceptions, but ... 
 
 Also, Cog-eng by it's very name spends an most of it's time trying to wander 
 around psychological areas which may not even exist.  Didn't there use to be
 an area called the 'affective' domain. Why don't we change the name of this
 group to affective-engineering? Would put an interesting spin on interface
 design. Do you think that cognitive-engineering comes under
 affective-engineering, or visa versa?

 I'd appreciate a broader discussion area.

 --Thom