http://patternlanguagenetwork.org/2008/10/07/an-inconvenient-thesis/
Christine Elizabeth Wania’s phd thesis questions the empirical evidence for the benefits of pattern languages in HCI:For more than two decades much of the pattern language literature, within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), has focused on the possible benefits pattern languages may provide, but there has been very little empirical work to support [...]
