Sharing is caring: the future of civic skill sharing
Overview The rapid proliferation of social interactions online has enabled a new culture of sharing to emerge that supports citizens sharing their …
Experience prototyping in automobiles
This week’s theme is “Experience Prototyping” [1], a design method that enables designers, clients or users to acquire a deeper understanding of …
Quantified self: useful or useless?
… critical design whose goal is not to provide clear answers, but to provoke reflection … This week’s paper proposes a fictional, …
Expressing design theory through annotated portfolios
The essence of research is to produce knowledge, and the essence of design is to produce artifacts. [3] Bødker’s third wave of …
An interview with Dan Richardson
This week, a knowledge triangle was formed between myself, Reem Talhouk and Dan Richardson to share our experiences with HCI, and emerging …
Tangible Computing: interfaces of the present
Tangible computing interfaces (TUIs) are the embodiment and manipulation of digital information through human senses, such as physical and bodily interaction. TUIs …
The future of Crowd Work
“Can we foresee a future crowd workplace in which we would want our children to participate?” This weeks paper by A Kittur …
Yesterday’s tomorrows
This week’s paper by Bell and Dourish [1] critiques the extent that Weiser’s foundational 1991 ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) article [2] was correct …
Structuring Future Social Relations: The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice
The paper reviewed [1] provides a historical background of participatory design (PD), including its political and ethical origins, and motives. PD was …
Critique: when second wave HCI meets third wave challenges.
[1] explores the boundaries between 2nd and 3rd generation HCI, and how the 2nd generation theory and research “can, will, and must …