Friday, August 7, 2020
Welcome to the Ministry of Multispecies Communications
Rachel Clarke talks about making the Ministry of Multispecies Communications walk into a virtual one, as part of the HCI summer festival.
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Friday, August 7, 2020
Not-Equal - Democratising access to digital technology and services
As part of the HCI Summer Festival, Not-Equal ran a panel asking how we can work towards the democratisation of access to digital technologies, particularly in response to how communities can work around COVID-19 restrictions.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Running a week long virtual event - the HCI summer festival
Emily Barker, Communications Offer at Open Lab, talks about how we along with HCID and North Lab built a virtual festival in less than a month in response to the canceled CHI 2020 conference (along with other conferences) due to the COVID19 pandemic.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Collective reflection on cross-cultural and value-sensitive design
Doctoral Trainee Tag Alshehri brought together researchers from different countries for an open discussion reflecting on their experiences, success and struggles in working within cultural and value-sensitive settings in design research, as part of the HCI summer festival.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Phone-grown re-purposing obsolete phones
In the short time span of 90 minutes, three teams of four minds stuck their (virtual) heads together to explore potential approaches to repurpose ‘obsolete’ smartphones, David Verweij and Dan Jackson give a brief summary of the Phone Grown creative sprint from the HCI summer festival.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Reflecting on design research in the online wild
As part of the HCI Summer festival, Simon Bowen, Alexander Wilson and Sunil Rodger ran the workshop 'Research in the Online Wild' looking at how you can do public consultation during periods of lockdown and social distancing, here is their summary of the discussion.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Civic tech and making places
As part of the HCI Summer Festival, Jennifer Manuel and Sean Peacock ran the Civic Tech and Making Places interactive workshop bringing together a range of people to talk about placemaking and the potential to use civic technology which didn't disappoint.
Friday, August 7, 2020
Digital careers and HCI
In the Digital Careers and HCI panel discussion at the HCI Summer Festival, we explored how people with HCI researchers could translate that experience into careers in the digital industry.