The Final Post: HCI for Low Technology Landscapes
A billboard above a shop along Zaatari’s market area, which references various social media platforms and messaging apps that are popular among …
Buttons for Participation
Physical and tangible systems are increasingly being explored in an attempt to trigger discussions and collect data in the context of Digital …
An Exploration of Interests
My relationship with HCI and digital civics so far has been more exploratory than that of pursuing a defined interest. As for …
Lost in Translation: Tangibles and the Language of Interaction
As awesome as GUIs may be, they’re so far removed from human senses for purposes of manipulation that we all end up, …
Pregnant Pause: How the way you tweet (or don’t) gives you away
Our engagement with social networks is quite commonly seen to be the chief marker of this age, an age where even the …
Down with the Empire: Review of ‘Ubicomp’s Colonial Impulse’
Much like its name implies, the current scope of Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) is all about going universal, or so suggests Dourish and …
Should we care? Review of ‘Structuring future social relations: the politics of care in participatory practice’
Looking back at Participatory Design — in its historical context, Light and Akama’s paper suggests that its main motives were along the …
HCI Research as Problem-Solving, Oulasvirta & Hornbæk, 2016
Facing growing controversy about the work in HCI being lacking from a science philosophy perspective, and a wide discord in the views …