The Spheres of Wellbeing (Thieme et al, 2016)
Thieme et al (2016) describe the challenges and lessons learned when adopting an experience-centred design approach to deploy technologies with a group …
Mental Health Matters: Rising to the Challenge
In this blog post I will discuss my personal research interests and how these link to the Digital Civics agenda and HCI …
‘One of a CHInd’; Personal Tracking as Lived Informatics – Rooksby et al (2014)
This study explores the use of activity trackers as ‘lived informatics’, positing itself in opposition to other papers on the subject. The …
Praying Together, Staying Together
Gaver et al (2010) designed and deployed The Prayer Companion, a device that was developed in order to aid the spiritual activity …
Introducing Janis Lena Meissner (Master of Science and the Universe!)…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Janis today, and what a pleasure it was! Janis has previously studied at The Vienna University …
The Past, Present & Futures of Tangible Computing
Tangible and physical computing gives a physical form to digital information. With the emergence of a screen-centred computation system and interaction between …
Tweeting is Believing? Understanding Microblog Credibility Perceptions (2012) Morris et al
Twitter is becoming increasingly used to disseminate breaking news as well as share ideas and opinions in a public sphere. This means …
Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences (2006)
Rogers sets out by explaining the trajectory of UbiComp; and the vision, focus and direction of the field. She argues that whilst …
Empathy, Participatory Design and Dementia
The authors explore the development of a design method that works with people with moderate dementia to develop a digital aid that …
Staying Open to Interpretation
Sengers & Gaver (2006) begin by discussing the idea that HCI lends itself to developing systems that convey one single, authoritative interpretation …