How HCI can address challenges in ICT4D and Digital Civics
Intro This blog post will investigate the relationship between HCI and Digital Civics. Specifically, we will be looking at my area of …
Experience Centred Design: Whats all the fuss about?
This week I read Wright et al’s paper Aesthetics and Experience-Centred Design [1]. The authors build on Graves Peterson’s pragmatist framework for …
Are you healthy enough? Assumptions of the Healthism cult
I read Deborah Lupton’s paper Quantifying the body: monitoring and measuring health in the age of mHealth technologies [1]. This week’s paper …
Dispelling the notion of design as a black art in interaction design research
This week, for the Research Design series of papers, I chose Research Through Design as a Method for Interaction Design Research in HCI …
Stuart Nicholson: The man to bring HCI away from the ivory tower and to the masses
My triangle consisted of Stuart Nicholson, Dan Howard and myself. This week I interviewed Stuart Nicholson, to find out his understanding of …
Theory & Philosophy of TUIs
Brygg Ulmer [5] provides a snap definition of tangible interfaces as interfaces that “give physical form to digital information”. It is different …
Reviewing ‘A life-cycle perspective on online community success’
I was asked to review Iriberry & Leroy’s paper A life-cycle perspective on online community success (2009). Their work summarises the state …
Liu Y. (2014) Identity Crisis of Ubicomp? Nonsense!
Paper: Identity Crisis of Ubicomp? Mapping 15 Years of the Field’s Development and Paradigm Change (2014) Author(s): Yong Liu et al. The authors have ambitiously set themselves the task of “mapping 15 years of the field’s development and …
Kyng’s work in Danish Telehealth [Delvin Varghese]
Kyng presented a paper reflecting on the work they achieved with a foundation called 4S, in association with healthcare professionals, patients, citizens, …
A Critique of Kuuti and Bannon’s review of the ‘Practice’ HCI Paradigm
Kuuti et al. have described the need for methodological tools and guidelines to move towards a more practice-based HCI research in their …