No Big Fix: Digital Civics for Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability is one, if not the key challenge of today’s world. Unsurprisingly, HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) research has been engaged with this …
Contest Hegemony!: HCI for Diverse and Plural Communities
A Critical Review of “Re-Making Places: HCI, ‘Community Building’ and Change” by Crivellaro et al. 2016 In this paper (Crivellaro et al. …
Clicks, Conflicts, and Civics: Rosie’s and My Research Interests
My research interests in digital civics revolve around participatory forms of urban planning. In my previous research in HCI & environmental sustainability, …
Let’s get Tangible… or not?
Critical Review of Brygg Ullmer’s Thesis Defence on Tangible User Interfaces: What is Tangible, Physical and Embodied Computing? Based on Brygg’s thesis …
Every ‘like’ counts? Facebook as an arena of everyday politics
Critical Review of “A Pool of Dreams: Facebook, Politics and the Emergence of a Social Movement” Crivellaro et al.’s paper [1] analyses …
A techno-utopia dismantled: Critical Review of “Ubicomp’s Colonial Impulse”
Dourish and Mainwaring’s paper claims that the research and development agenda of Ubicomp (ubiquitous computing) is essentially a colonial enterprise. In short, …
Who’s designing? Critical Review of ‘Empathy, participatory design and people with dementia’
Lindsay et al.’s (2012) paper describes a participatory design process targeted towards people with mild to moderate dementia. The process is exemplified …
Stop Worrying and Love the Mess: Critical Review of Reeves, S. (2015). Human-computer interaction as science.
This paper reflects on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and its self-image as a ‘science’. While at times written in a complex style, it …