HCI, Digital Civics and Agency or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the… Complexity?
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) emphasises the role of the human in computing research. In studying these interactions, HCI precludes the existence of …
Whose participation is it anyway? Exploring publics, HCI and the Digital Civics agenda
Chris Le Dantec’s paper [1] details the design and deployment of a bespoke information system, the Community Resource Messenger (CRM), with a …
Two researchers, one mission…
My research interests primarily revolve around civic engagement and how technology can reach out to marginalised groups to give them a greater …
Computing’s forgotten sense: a short exploration of tangible computing in HCI
Tangible computing is a domain of HCI that looks into how digital information can be given physical form and presented and manipulated …
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Starbird and Palen’s 2012 paper [1] discusses the role that users of Twitter played during the 2011 Egyptian political uprisings. The …
Agitating the calmed: exploring Rogers’ engagement agenda for ubiquitous computing
Yvonne Rogers’ 2006 paper advocates a new direction for ubiquitous computing (UbiComp) research that goes beyond Weiser’s “calm computing” vision to look …
The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice by Ann Light and Yoko Akama, 2014
This paper [1] explores the fundamental question of the role of the designer and their duty of care upon the end user(s) …
Staying Open to Interpretation by Sengers and Gaver, 2006
This paper argues for an approach to theorising and practicing Human Computer Interaction (HCI) design that embraces uncertainty and diversity in user …