Table of Contents
VOLUME XIX.1 January + February 2012
- Demo Hour
- Blogpost
- Departments
- Columns
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Day in the Lab
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Digital interaction research @ Culture Lab
Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier
What is Culture Lab? Culture Lab is a beautiful building dating back to 1889, when it was the Grand Assembly Rooms. In 2006 it was renovated and transformed into Newcastle University's center for interdisciplinary research in digital media. Although the Digital Interaction Group makes up the bulk of Culture…
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Forums
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Physical prototyping of an on-outlet power-consumption display
Florian Heller, Jan Borchers
Less than a year ago, the tsunami in Japan reminded us what we like to forget: how dangerous producing electricity can be. In the Western world, electricity has become such an omnipresent source of power that most of us think of it only when the monthly bill needs to…
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Local connections
Tim Coughlan, Janet van der Linden, Anne Adams
Historical artifacts, places, characters, and stories exist in all of our local communities, yet they are often ignored, or seem invisible, as we go about our daily lives. At the same time, it may seem as if our sense of local community is slipping away, and that modern technologies…
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Designing interactive systems in healthcare
Madhu Reddy, Lena Mamykina, Andrea Grimes
Health information technology (HIT) has the enormous potential to transform healthcare by positively affecting quality, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness. However, despite ongoing efforts by many government agencies, HIT continues to experience low levels of adoption [1]. Moreover, a growing body of research questions its impact on medical care [2], for…
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Why the CHI community should be involved in standards
Arnie Lund, Jean Scholtz, Nigel Bevan
We all realize that standards are good. For example, consider when something in your house breaks and you need to find a replacement part. What size does the part need to be? Will we be able to attach it successfully without needing a machine shop? Standards are great for…
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Design case study
William Newman
William Newman's definitive and engaging article reveals that something we take for granted now was once one possibility of many. Recognizing this can provide a deeper perspective on design choices we face today. Newman is a meticulous student of history who created some of that history himself, working with…
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A taxonomy of models used in the design process
Joanne Mendel
Only a few authors have assembled collections of design tools. In this article, Joanne Mendel proposes a taxonomy of models, grouped according to their use in a four-phase design process. Readers may be interested in similar projects, listed in the sidebar accompanying this article.Hugh Dubberly Models are increasingly important…
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Features
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Architectural robotics, inevitably
Mark Gross, Keith Green
Information and communication technologies (ICT) extend a long line of emerging technologies that have reshaped our built environment and, consequently, society, over millennia. In antiquity, Roman arches afforded greater freedom of movement, physically and socially. In the Middle Ages, flying buttresses allowed light to magnificently penetrate once heavy walls.…
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Revolutionizing human-computer interfaces
Neel Patel, Darin Hughes
Human-computer interfaces (HCIs) have lead to enormous advances in both computing and everyday life. Fields from finance to medicine are adopting new forms of interaction between humans and computers to help enable faster and more accurate decisions. Scientists are benefiting from the ability to interact with their data, with…
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You amateur!
Eric Paulos
In almost all the varied walks of life, amateurs have more freedom to experiment and innovate. The fraction of the population who are amateurs is a good measure of the freedom of a society.Freeman Dyson [1] Listen. In case you didn't get the memo, ubiquitous computing has already arrived,…
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Slowing down with personal productivity tools
Gilly Leshed
As I write this article, numerous other tasks are piling up on my desk, on to-do lists scribbled on my office whiteboard, and in multiple tabs and applications on my computer. I work on these tasks and projects between the meetings and classes lined up in my calendar. At…
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- Cover story
