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 …
Music, HCI and ME
Introduction In this blog post I look forward to share and discuss some of my understandings of HCI and Music Interaction. First, …
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 …
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 …
HCI, Digital Civics and Agency or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the… Complexity?
Human Computer Interaction (HCI) emphasises the role of the human in computing research. In studying these interactions, HCI precludes the existence of …
EXPERIENCES OF YOUNG PEOPLE : Building a Bridge between HCI & Digital Civics
What is the Context? When I think of the Arab Spring uprisings since 2010, I cannot not ponder on the idea that …
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 …
Dementia: Drawing Parallels between HCI and Digital Civics
Introduction Throughout the course of the module I have considered how my readings in the wider area of HCI and digital civics …
Configuring Collaboration: A Fledgling Digital Civics Research Manifesto
Configuring Collaboration: A Fledgling Digital Civics Research Manifesto Having recently read Le Dantec’s Strangers at the Gate [9], the importance of researchers …
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 …