Town Planning & HCI: Challenges of Participation
Engaging citizens in decision-making has been a widely debated topic for a number of years in town planning. Over recent years, it …
Designing for sustainability: fostering reflection in the design process
In this paper, Durall et al. focus on the strong links between experience and reflection [1, 2] and provide a method, through …
A Stage-Based Model of Personal Informatics Systems
In this paper Li et al. look to explore the problems of personal informatics systems as encountered by users in an attempt …
Attention to Detail: Annotation of a Design Process
In this paper Jarvis et al. [2] propose a new approach to documenting the design process in research papers using an annotated …
Getting to know Helen…
This week I interviewed Helen to find out more about her research interests and her thoughts so far about HCI. I learned …
How is Tangible, Physical and Embodied Computing different to other areas of HCI research?
Tangible, physical and embodied computing is about using physical objects to interact with the digital. It can give ‘physical form to digital …
‘Looking at’, ‘Looking up’ or ‘Keeping up with’ People: Motives and Uses of Facebook
In this paper Adam Joinson explores the motivations of people using Facebook and the gratification they gain from such uses. The paper …
Moving on from Weiser’s Vision of Calm Computing: Engaging UbiComp Experiences
In this paper, Yvonne Rogers encourages the field of ubiquitous computing to move away from a sole focus on ‘calm computing’ to …
Structuring Future Relations: The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice
In this paper Ann Light and Yoko Akama introduce the idea of the ‘politics of care’ into participatory design practices. Described through …
Human-computer interaction as science
‘Human-computer interaction as science’ presents an interesting view of the longstanding debates surrounding HCI in relation to science and HCI as a …