Applying HCI principles to create the next generation of music production tools
In this blog post I am going to argue that music mixing tools need to be redesigned. They are no longer just …
Experiences Before Things: A Primer for the (yet) Unconvinced
In ‘Experiences Before Things: A Primer for the (yet) Unconvinced’ author Marc Hassenzahl argues that HCI designers should shift their focus from …
Activity tracking methods and motivations
A hot topic in the technology world at present is the ‘Quantified Self’. This is a movement where ordinary people seek to …
Dispelling Design as the ‘Black Art’ of CHI
This paper focuses on the use of creative design within Human Computer Interaction. The authors Wolf et al. argue that creative design …
A conversation with Nataly Birbeck
This week I had the pleasure of interviewing Nataly Birbeck about her HCI related motivations and interests. We started by discussing her …
Futures of tangible computing
This week our class has been tasked with planning a hypothetical conference on tangible computing, with my group co-chairing a session on …
The Future of Crowd Work
Online labour exchange marketplaces like Amazon’s Mechanical Turk and PeoplePerHour.com represent a rapidly expanding employment sector. This new area therefore represents fertile …
Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences
This week’s paper ‘does what it says on the tin’. The tin in this case being the title. Author Yvonne Rogers’ approach …
On Creating and Sustaining Alternatives: The Case of Danish Telehealth reviewed by Colin Dodds
In his 2015 paper ‘On Creating and Sustaining Alternatives: The Case of Danish Telehealth’, author Morten Kyng tells the story of a …
Colin’s review of week 1 paper ‘Human-computer interaction as science’
In his 2015 paper ‘Human-computer interaction as a science’, author Stuart Reeves argues that the HCI discipline suffers from anxieties of incoherence …