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VOLUME XXVI.6 November - December 2019
- WELCOME
- Demo Hour
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What are you reading?
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What are you reading? Ron Wakkary
Ron Wakkary
I have been working on a book called Things We Could Design (MIT Press, forthcoming). In writing the book, I've learned that far more time is spent reading than writing! My desk is spilling over with piles of books and articles on philosophy and design. In the book I…
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Blog@IX
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Finsterworlds
Johannes Schöning
I am fascinated by novel technology. This had already started by kindergarten, but when I studied computer science, I read Mark Weiser's seminal paper "The Computer for the 21st Century" [1]. This paper awoke my passion for HCI and ubicomp, so I decided to work in this field, as…
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How was it made?
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How was it made? The Loupe
Dick van Dijk
Describe what you made. We developed a tool for museum visitors that provides access to multiple layers of information: an interactive magnifying glass. The Loupe prompts users to search for objects by displaying their outline on a concealed phone display. If the visitor matches the outline of the object…
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Columns
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The day I am a design researcher, not a woman
Kristina Höök
A few years back, I was asked to give a short presentation at the women's (later renamed "diversity") breakfast at the CHI conference. The main message in my talk was, I come to this conference as a researcher, not as a woman! I was angry and upset that we…
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Humanizing the experience in the era of automation
Uday Gajendar
We are living in an age of automation, where computational intelligence guided by algorithms in apps and sensors is woven into our daily lives. What does this mean for the human aspect of experiencing such literally artificial intelligence? The challenge before us is the act of humanization itself—shaping tech…
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Day in the Lab
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INOVE
Roberta de Andrade, Ingrid Monteiro
How do you describe your lab to visitors? We are not a single laboratory, but rather a set of laboratories, rooms, and specialized spaces, located on the campus of the Federal University of Ceará in Quixadá, in the northeast region of Brazil. These spaces have distinct and integrated purposes…
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Forums
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The design space of media architecture displays
Kim Halskov, Aron Fischel
Media architecture, a subfield of interactive surfaces and architecture, is the term for digital technologies at large scale integrated into the built environment. This field emerged from the common practice of mounting large displays on the facade of a building, also known as urban screens. Iconic media architecture installations…
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Straighten up and fly right: Rethinking intersectionality in HCI research
Yolanda Rankin, Jakita Thomas
If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression. —The Combahee River Collective Insights Intersectionality is currently gaining traction in the context of human-computer interaction (HCI) research [1,2],…
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Confronting the tensions where UX meets AI
Henriette Cramer, Juho Kim
AI research has now been around for about 65 years, and the consequences of design decisions on AI outcomes have been a lively debate for 20-plus years [1], if not longer. Governments, companies, and investors are now pouring in copious resources to advance AI techniques and create "AI-powered" products.…
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HCI in praxis: Teaching augmented reality storytelling in a journalism classroom
Victoria McArthur
The real point of journalism is always to create informed global citizenry, and at a moment in time where newspapers and broadcast media maybe aren't attracting younger audiences, immersive journalism can. —Nonny de la Peña [1] Insights As an educator, I have a longstanding interest in what HCI…
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Designing for uprooted children: Issues, challenges, and opportunities
Alissa Antle, Juan Hourcade, Jerry Fails, Franca Garzotto, Michail Giannakos, Panos Markopoulos, Andrea Palumbos, Janet Read
Across the world, about 50 million children have been forced out of their homes due to violence, extreme poverty, or natural disasters [1]. While forced child migration is not a new phenomenon, the number of child refugees has more than doubled since 2005 [1]. Increasingly this group relies on,…
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The art of fieldworking together
Laura Cortés-Rico, Tania Pérez-Bustos
Research projects involving multiple disciplines, ways of knowing, and crafts are well valued by the academic community, especially in the domains of design as inquiry and design research. These projects are also complex entanglements, especially in the day-to-day crafting of the collaborative work and relationships that constitute them; and…
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- Community square
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Features
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Moving beyond ‘one size fits all’: Research considerations for working with vulnerable populations
Ashley Walker, Yaxing Yao, Christine Geeng, Roberto Hoyle, Pamela Wisniewski
Privacy and vulnerability are distinct yet interwoven concepts. Protecting a vulnerable person's privacy, for instance, is one way to help ensure their safety. For example, the name of someone who reports a sexual assault is often left out of media coverage to protect the victim's privacy. However, along the…
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E-goras: Online communities for cities
Andre de Oliveira Bueno, Junia Anacleto
In ancient Greek city-states, the people would choose a public space to discuss the management of the city. This place was called the agora, which literally means gathering place or assembly. Back then, agoras were the center of the athletic, artistic, commercial, spiritual, and political life of the city.…
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User experience as legitimacy trap
P. Dourish
For many years, telling someone in everyday settings that you worked on user interface design or human-computer interaction would produce puzzled looks and require a good deal more explanation. With the rise of design and interaction associated with the proliferation of interactive devices, these terms became much more familiar…
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Our robotic future and how we should react
Matt Jones
Let me tell you a story—a frightening, disturbing one. A story about a future we would never have purposefully set out to create. As this is a scary tale, we need to begin in the dark, so close your eyes and picture in your mind's eye the first memory…
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Why project Q is more than the world’s first nonbinary voice for technology
Julie Carpenter
There is a prevalence of gendered technologies emerging in our world. By gendered technologies, I specifically mean tech-based products and interfaces designed in a way to purposefully send social cues that it has humanlike gender. Up until recently, this social gender implication was typically presented to users in one…
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Cover story
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Reframing classroom sensing: Promise and peril
Amy Ogan
Should we put cameras in every classroom? At first glance, this may sound like a dystopian nightmare set in a surveillance state. And yet, with careful deployment and strong regulations in place for data use, I argue that such an approach could help us avoid a future where students…
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- Calendar
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Exit
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Break
Mehmet Baytaş
Contributor: Mehmet Aydin Baytaş Curator/Editor: Anne Spaa Genre: Systems theory, tangible user interfaces, music Everyday artifacts embody delicate, complex systems. On a guitar with a "floating" bridge, a single broken string renders the entire system useless, forcing the player to take a break. ©2019 ACM1072-5520/19/11$15.00 Permission to make…
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