Using technology to self manage long term conditions
In this blog post on the relationship between an issue of importance in HCI and an issue of importance in digital civics …
Personal informatics vs. social imperatives
This paper [1] outlines a model of engaging with personal informatics systems (PIS) as a five-stage psychological process. Personal informatics systems are defined …
Critique as a resource and resourceful critics
I chose this paper because I am interested in the challenges associated with doing design work or participative research with eighty somethings. …
A little chat with Big Data – interviewing Aare Puussaar
Who did you interview? Aare Puussaar What are they interested in and motivated by (research wise)? We all know that Aare is …
Tangible, Physical and Embodied Computing: Theory & Philosophy
Tangible, physical and embodied computing differ from other areas of HCI research in that they share a philosophical underpinning whereby body, action …
Kittur et al (2013) The Future of Crowd Work
“Can we foresee a future crowd workplace in which we would want our children to participate?” [1] “I am a human being, …
Abowd, G. (2012) What next, Ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act
In ‘What Next, Ubicomp?’ Abowd argues that the study of ubiquitous computing – Ubicomp – faces an identity crisis. Put simply ‘ubiquitous …
Structuring Future Social Relations: The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice by Light, A. & Akama, Y. (2014)
This paper describes how the scope of participatory design (PD) can – and should – move beyond a concern with merely involving …
Staying open to interpretation: engaging multiple meanings in design and evaluation by Sengers, P. & Gaver, B. (2006)
This paper is concerned with the issue of interpretation: ‘the process by which users, nonusers and designers come to assign meaning to …