Using Toolkits and Participatory Design to address issues within Digital Civics
Introduction: Within this blog post I aim to discuss two main areas of Human Computer Interaction which I previously investigated throughout the …
Do you care if a computer says sorry? I didn’t think I did until I read this…
This week I chose to read ‘Do you Care if a Computer Says Sorry? User Experience Design through Affective Messages’ by Park …
Am I a cyborg because I wear health monitoring technology?
This week’s blog post reviews the paper “Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies” by Deborah …
The Photostroller: Slideshow on wheels
The paper I selected to review this week was titled “The Photostroller – Supporting Diverse Care Home Residents in Engaging with the …
Dan Howard: The Visionary
For this week’s blog post my task was to interview Dan Howard. Dan is an incredibly interesting character who has a wide …
Toolkits and Making – Stuart Nicholson
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) as a strand of computing emerged within the 1980’s and has since been consistently adapting to different trends …
Stuart Nicholson – A life-cycle perspective on online community success
The paper that I was assigned to read was “A life-cycle perspective on online community success” by Alicia Iriberri and Gondy Leroy. …
Stuart Nicholson: Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing
The paper firstly explores the scope of ubiquitous computing as envisioned by the now considered “forefather”, Mark Weiser who coined the phrase …
Participatory Design and “democratising innovation”
One of the prominent issues outlined within the paper relates to how there has been a shift from how democracy in participatory …
When second wave HCI meets third wave challenges
Susanne Bodker’s papers (“When Second Wave HCI meets Third Wave Challenges” & “Third-Wave HCI, 10 Years Later – Participation and Sharing”) focus …