HCI and CS Progress
Whittaker, S., Terveen, L., and Nardi, B. (2000) Let's stop pushing the envelope and start addressing it: a reference task agenda for HCI Human Computer Interaction, 15, 75-106.
I've felt for a long time now that there's something deeply wrong with Computer Science as a research field. It seems that overall, and definitely in some sub-disciplines, there is very little sense of real progress. While this paper concentrates almost entirely on HCI as a research area, it would seem to have a great deal of good insight to communicate on this perception and some of its causes.