Intersectional Invisibility & ICT: HCI, Digital Civics and Marginalised Women’s Health
This final blog post will synthesise several of the key themes and ideas that have emerged throughout this module by situating them …
Designing for Defiance: Antagonistic Activist ICTs
This week’s blog post focuses on the paper “Illegitimate Civic Participation: Supporting Community Activists on the Ground” by Asad and Le Dantec …
Knowing Me, Knowing Mo (ah haaaa)
This week’s blog will take a look at both my own research interests and those of my fellow coursemate, the wonderful Mo. …
Touch Me Tech: Designing for the ‘Phygital’
As humans, we are inherently sensory. Our experiences, interactions and understandings of the world around us are shaped by the physical spaces …
The Faces Behind the Interface: Putting the Human back into Human Computation through Turkopticon
This week’s paper “Turkopticon: interrupting Worker Invisibility in Amazon Mechanical Turk” by Irani and Silberman (2013) takes on the retail giants Amazon, …
Pervasive or Postcolonial? The Need to Decolonise Ubicomp
This week’s paper, ‘Ubicomp’s Colonial Impulse’ by Dourish and Mainwaring takes on the world of Ubiquitous Computing (ubicomp) and seeks to challenge many …
Exclusionary Evaluations of Participatory Design?
This week’s paper, ‘Evaluation in Participatory Design: A Literature Survey’ by Bossen et al. starts by introducing the core values of participatory …
Solving the Problem through ‘Problem-Solving’?
Having sparked heated academic debate at the CHI 2016 conference (or so I’ve been told by those in attendance), it can be …