Empowering Users in a Fragmented World of Opinionated Technology
Introduction The smartphone revolution promised us that whatever you want to do, “there’s an app for that”[39]. We do carry a vastly …
Imagining the Future: Speculative Civics
Carl DiSalvo et al’s 2016 paper, Designing Speculative Civics, explores how the idea of Research through Design (RtD) can be applied in a civic context to …
What is “Experience” anyway?
In their paper “Understanding Experience in Interactive Systems”, Forlizzi and Battarbee describe a framework for thinking about experience, which they describe as …
A Stage-Based Model of Personal Informatics Systems
This is a reference post, I am just noting what we did in week 6 for personal informatics systems. We produced a presentation …
Useful Computing: Reclaiming a Lost Vision
Useful Computing Computers are supposed to make our lives easier; technology should serve us. It is a simple idea, but one that …
Awesome New Interfaces Track
Theme: Awesome New Interfaces Chairs: Alex, Dalya, Dinislam, Mo Acceptance Criteria It must be awesome – makes you go WOW It must …
Tangible Computing: Data You Can Touch
What is Tangible Computing? Tangible computing is a human-computer interaction paradigm where physical form is given to digital information. The idea is …
Amazon Mechanical Turk: Digital sweatshop or second-job safety net?
Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT) is an online marketplace that allows companies and developers (“Requesters”) to outsource “microtasks” to humans in the form …
The Future of Computing is Programming for Individuals in their Environments
In his 2012 paper, “What next, Ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act”, Gregory D. Abowd puts forward an exciting vision for the next …
The Value of “Things”: A Review of “Participatory design and democratizing innovation”
In this paper, Björgvinsson, Ehn and Hildergren provide a summary of some of the initial progress of Malmö Living Labs – a place for …