Blogs
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CHI-ldren: Two kids’ impressions from CHI 2019
Julianna Kun, Nicholas Kun Posted: Tue, June 04, 2019 - 1:55:36
Hello! Our names are Julianna and Nicholas Kun. We went to CHI 2019 with our dad. We are 11 and 8 years old and would like to present to you…
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Reflections on the first ACM SIGCHI-Sponsored Summer School in Saudi Arabia
Shiroq Al-Megren, Ragad Allwihan, Khalid Majrashi, Naelah Alageel, Areej Al-Wabil Posted: Wed, May 29, 2019 - 11:30:14
Between August 27 and August 30, 2018, in the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the ACM SIGCHI-Sponsored Summer School on Research Methods took place. The school received ACM sponsorship from the…
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Should curriculum and assessment authors be certified? A response to Rolf Molich
Gilbert Cockton Posted: Mon, May 20, 2019 - 2:31:39
Rolf's blog begins with a question: “Should usability testers be certified?”—answering “Yes” and then, more emphatically, “YES!” I will focus on his closing question: “Is certification worth the effort?” However,…
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Leonardo da Vinci – the great procrastinator
Guillaume Couche, Markus Lahtinen Posted: Wed, April 17, 2019 - 5:15:47
Among being organized, possessing strong communicative skills, having an ability to interface with people, and being able to be creative under pressure, the ability to meet a deadline with a…
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Should usability testers be certified?
Rolf Molich Posted: Wed, April 03, 2019 - 11:01:26
Should usability testers be certified? Yes. Or rather: YES! Let me ask two counter questions: Would you trust a doctor who was not certified? Would you want to fly with…
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CSCW Research @ Latin America
Claudia Lopez, Cleidson de Souza, Laura S. Gaytan-Lugo, Francisco Gutierrez Posted: Thu, March 28, 2019 - 2:20:17
After participating in SIGCHI Across Borders events, we proposed and ran a workshop in CSCW 2018 to (i) identify where CSCW and social computing research was being conducted in and…
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The perils of next-gen surveillance technology
Juan Hourcade Posted: Fri, February 22, 2019 - 3:27:20
Low-cost, high-performance, data capture, storage, and processing capabilities are changing our world. We are in the era of big data. Most large organizations are storing large amounts of data about…
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Morning greetings in a Bangladeshi way: Walking, greeting, and technology
Nova Ahmed Posted: Tue, February 05, 2019 - 10:27:01
Some colleagues and I once had a big debate about whether technology separates us or connects us. At one point, someone argued that people do not even greet each other…
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Automatizing the power grid
Catherine Bischofberger Posted: Tue, January 29, 2019 - 3:16:36
In this day and age, relations between humans and machines have become rather fraught. A growing number of anxieties crystallize around the use of robots and automation in various industries,…
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Making the child-computer interaction field grow up?
Olof Torgersson, Tilde Bekker, Wolmet Barendregt, Eva Eriksson, Christopher Frauenberger Posted: Fri, October 05, 2018 - 2:49:57
Child-computer interaction (CCI) as a specialized field within human-computer interaction (HCI) has developed gradually, from the early works of Seymour Papert and Mitchel Resnick at MIT to the more recent…
