The Photostroller: Slideshow on wheels
The paper I selected to review this week was titled “The Photostroller – Supporting Diverse Care Home Residents in Engaging with the …
What Should We Expect From Research Through Design?
When researchers do their research in HCI research community, most of them review existing scientific theories and apply those to their research …
Critique as a resource and resourceful critics
I chose this paper because I am interested in the challenges associated with doing design work or participative research with eighty somethings. …
When You See It!
For this week’s reading I chose a paper which I would normally avoid because of its ambiguous nature. Also people from my …
When our research babies fail
For this weeks blog I chose the paper “Anatomy of a Failure How we knew when our design went wrong, and what …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Praying Together, Staying Together
Gaver et al (2010) designed and deployed The Prayer Companion, a device that was developed in order to aid the spiritual activity …
Stranger than Fiction…
Mark Blythe takes the award for writing the first paper that made me laugh out loud (in a good way) with Research …
Dan Howard: The Visionary
For this week’s blog post my task was to interview Dan Howard. Dan is an incredibly interesting character who has a wide …
Introducing Janis Lena Meissner (Master of Science and the Universe!)…
I had the pleasure of interviewing Janis today, and what a pleasure it was! Janis has previously studied at The Vienna University …
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 …
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 …
Interviewing Euijin
I interviewed Euijin, and he told me that he is interested in Tangible User Interfaces (TUI) to support children’s learnings and provide playful …
Planning HCI with Jen
Jennifer Manuel is no stranger to working with people from local communities. With her planning background she has done hundreds of interviews and …