Slack/tivism; Harnessing Political Movement(s)?
1.0 Introduction “As the historian Robert Darnton has written “The marvels of communication technology in the present have produced a false consciousness about …
Rhetoric and Representation in Transportation Planning: A Data With Destiny
What power does crowdsourced data have in the shaping of plans? Through conducting ethnographic fieldwork during a three-day urban planning event referred …
Me, Myself and this Austrian Guy.
As we move towards a progressively unstable, heated political climate, having the ability to express disagreement and organise discourse has never been …
Tangible, Physical & Embedded Computing; Touchy Feely Much-Appealy
Before I jump straight in to provide a definition of what tangible and embodied computing is, I implore you to first participate in …
Debating poverty porn on Twitter: Benefits Tweet
In [1] Brooker et al. try to unpick how the social media platform Twitter can provide support for a ‘talkative electorate’ by …
Notes on Ubiquitous Computing’ Dominant Vision: Tomorrow Never Dies
Authors Bell and Dourish of ‘Yesterday’s Tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision’ [1] write a call to reason for future researchers …
Empathy, Participatory Design and People with Dementia: Sharing is Caring
In the paper “Empathy, Participatory Design and People with Dementia” Lindsey et al. evaluate an adapted Participatory Design method named the ‘KITE …
The Turn to Practise in HCI: Practise makes Imperfect
To help soothe the turbulence and confusion generated by Human Computer Interaction’s (HCI) eclectic mix of disciplines and approaches, authors Kuutti and …