Empowerment through Making?
This blog post is about empowerment through making and DIY practices – or at least it seeks to critically review such claims …
Trajectories as Journeys through User Experiences
This week I chose to discuss “From Interaction to Trajectories: Designing Coherent Journeys Through User Experiences” by Steve Benford, Gabriella Giannachi, Boriana …
Personal Tracking: Living by numbers or with numbers?
“Personal Tracking as Lived Informatics” is a CHI’14-paper by John Rooksby, Mattias Rost, Alistair Morrison and Matthew Chalmers from the University of …
Critical Design: Materialised Critical Theory and Ideological RtD
Critical Design: Materialised Critical Theory and Ideological RtD This week’s topic of the HCI course is “Designing as Researching” and I picked …
Colin Dodds: Glancing at the Iceberg called HCI
This week we worked in learning triangles reflecting on all the reading and our learnings so far. I interviewed my CDT peer …
Toolkits and Making
Tangible, Physical and Embodied Computing is distinct to other areas of HCI literally in its naming adjectives. While its areas of applications …
Online Communities: What is success for whom?
This week’s review deals with a paper by Alicia Iriberri and Gondy Leroy published 2009 in the ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) journal. …
Back to the Future of Ubicomp
In his 2012 publication titled “What next, Ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act” [1] Gregory D. Abowd revises 21 years of ubicomp …
Empathic Participatory Design as a Cure for Reductionism
The CHI-paper “Empathy, Participatory Design and People with Dementia” [3] presents a participatory design project at Culture Lab involving people with dementia. …
Somewhere between Micro and Macro: A comment on the “Practice Turn” of HCI
“The Turn to Practice in HCI: Towards a Research Agenda” [1] is a CHI 2014 paper by Kuutti and Bannon. It presents …