Context through Metadata: Increasing understanding and trust in photo journalism through HCI
The oft-used idiom “A picture is worth a thousand words” – meaning that a single image can communicate a complex idea or …
Experience Prototyping
In their paper “Experience Prototyping” (2000), Buchenau and Suri explore the idea of creating representations of user experiences, through which early designs …
I can’t let you eat that, Dave. Have some carrot juice instead.
In their paper ‘Fit4Life: The Design of a Persuasive Technology Promoting Healthy Behaviour and Ideal Weight’ Purpura et al put forward a …
Experience Design Theatre: Just an act?
The paper I chose this week was “Experience Design Theatre: Exploring the Role of Live Theatre in Scaffolding Design Dialogues”. In this …
Talking with Talhouk: Reem’s HCI Interests and Ambitions
Reem Talhouk has brought a valuable new perspective to this year’s CDT cohort thanks to her Lebanese origins and passions regarding …
Tangible Toolkits: Making TUIs
Tangible computing differs from many other areas of HCI research in that it often concerns the conversion of data and ideas between …
Dan’s review of week 4 paper: “‘Looking at’, ‘Looking up’ or ‘Keeping up with’ People? Motives and Uses of Facebook”
This paper investigates how and why people used Facebook in 2008 through the use of two studies. The first study was a …
Dan’s review of week 3 paper: “Yesterday’s Tomorrows: Notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision”
In this paper, Bell and Dourish discuss the direction that ubicomp had been taking since the field’s inception. The authors point out …
Dan’s review of week 2 paper: ‘Empathy, Participatory Design and People with Dementia’
This paper provided an interesting insight into the many issues that arise when using participatory design techniques with people living with dementia …