Table of Contents
VOLUME XXVI.1 January - February 2019
- WELCOME
- Demo Hour
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What are you reading?
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What are you reading? Dan Lockton
Dan Lockton
I'm overwhelmed with books, which exist largely as a messy physicalized mental model distributed around the office. As has been observed before in this section, many academics' reading tends to happen in liminal spaces and times—summers, airports and aircraft. My choices here all somehow fit with these in-between situations.…
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Blog@IX
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What people see versus what people do: Some thoughts on the cover story on visualizations
Nikiforos Karamanis
I read the cover story of the July—August 2018 issue of Interactions on data visualizations by Danielle Albers Szafir with great interest, particularly since I recently gave an introductory webinar on this topic for the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) (see [1:[R1]). The article focuses on "understanding what people see…
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How was it made?
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How was it made? Wind-blaster
Seungwoo Je, Hyelip Lee, Myung Kim, Minkyeong Lee, Yoonji Kim, Youngkyung Choi, Andrea Bianchi
Describe what you made. We built two wrist-mounted propellers to create a wearable force-feedback device for immersion in virtual reality (VR). The orientation of each propeller can be sensed with an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and controlled actively with the stepper motor component. To demonstrate the different forms of…
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Columns
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Deep digitality—Fate, fiat, and foundry
Alan Dix
The wand lies on time-darkened wood, strange-colored stains telling of past experiments. I touch it gently, magic tingling beneath my fingertips, but leave it for now among retorts, dried frog skin, and tools of alchemy. Instead I take a simple spyglass and look north toward the hills. Between Swansea…
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Fair fares and the digital divide
Jonathan Bean
As middle-class life becomes increasingly saturated with information technology, our collective expectations of what constitutes a normal existence continue to shift. Five years ago, only sports fans, crazy people, and those with strong political beliefs yelled at their radios. Now many homes have smart speakers—exactly how many, we do…
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Designing recommendations
Elizabeth Churchill
Books, products, movies, music—every day, our digital lives are strewn with suggestions and recommendations that invite us to direct our attention to specific content and spend our money on specific products. Driving and transportation routes are suggested to us based on past traffic patterns and current traffic load. Search-query…
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- Day in the Lab
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Forums
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Between purpose and profit: Breaking the spell of false trade-offs
Tim Frick
Design agencies are in a unique position to bring about positive societal change at scale, but a common misperception often stands in the way of such aspirations: that purpose and profit are antithetical. To create large-scale change, agencies need tools, principles, and standards that help us collectively create a…
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Toward responsible AI for the next billion users
Nithya Sambasivan, Jess Holbrook
Recent advances in computing power, increases in the quantity and quality of data, and algorithmic breakthroughs have led to a rise in machine intelligence, creating opportunities that simply did not exist a few decades ago. From stock trading to detecting disease-vector progression to personalized music recommendations, AI is starting…
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Lessons from working with researchers and practitioners in healthcare
Ann Blandford
Conducting HCI research in healthcare is exciting, worthwhile, and essential: Medicine and healthcare are becoming increasingly reliant on interactive health technologies and data analytics. HCI researchers and practitioners have a key role in ensuring that healthcare systems are fit for purpose (safe, effective, engaging, etc.) and in discovering new…
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Beyond the visible: Sensing with thermal imaging
Yomna Abdelrahman, Albrecht Schmidt
Human visual perception is the ability to see, process, and understand stimuli in an environment. Despite its capabilities, this system is limited by the visible luminance range that it can detect. In fact, the perceivable spectrum of the human eye comprises less than 1 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum.…
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Maximize business impact with JTBD
James Kalbach
Why isn't Intuit dead? After all, the average lifespan of companies on the S&P 500 is half what it was a generation ago—now under 20 years. Yet as competitors die out, the tax software giant continues to deliver double-digit growth after 25 years of existence. Insights There are…
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Community square
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The new SIGCHI EC’s values and strategic initiatives
Helena Mentis, Cliff Lampe, Regina Bernhaupt, Anirudha Joshi, Susan Fussell, Susan Dray, Dan Olsen, Aaron Quigley, Julie Williamson, Eunice Sari, Loren Terveen, Allison Druin, Philippe Palanque
With the start of any new SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC), it is healthy to assess the state of the organization and lay out a plan to move forward for the new term. Thus, at the start of the July 2018 meeting of the new SIGCHI EC, the new president,…
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Features
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Beyond generalization: Research for the very particular
Olav Bertelsen, Susanne Bødker, Eva Eriksson, Eve Hoggan, Jo Vermeulen
In this article, we discuss HCI research that does not aim for universal or generic solutions, but rather focuses on addressing the particular challenges of particular people in particular situations or activities. We clarify what we mean by design and research for the very particular with examples from industry…
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Toward classroom experiences inclusive of students with disabilities
Oussama Metatla, Anja Thieme, Emeline Brulé, Cynthia Bennett, Marcos Serrano, Christophe Jouffrais
More than ever, digital content and tools are being introduced and accepted in diverse educational contexts, offering opportunities for innovation and for making learning processes more encompassing, engaging, and collaborative. Multimodal tools fostering tactile, auditory, and spatial learning promise increased access for students with vision impairments (VI). Yet many…
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‘This is not what we wanted’: Designing for conversation with voice interfaces
Stuart Reeves, Martin Porcheron, Joel Fischer
Design is increasingly said to be about constructing conversations with end users [1]. Advances in underlying voice-related [2] technologies, coupled with the spread of voice-driven agents and dedicated devices such as the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and HomePod, lend weight to the notion of so-called conversational interfaces. In spite…
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Planning for the things you can’t plan for: Lessons learned from deployments in the home
Helena Tendedez, Kelly Widdicks, Mike Hazas
Understanding how people interact with technology in their homes has long been a topic of interest for researchers. Across HCI, researchers in digital health, sustainability, education, family, and privacy are fascinated by the human routines and everyday interactions that involve technology. As these researchers have found, deploying technology (e.g.,…
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The human infrastructure of El Paquete, Cuba’s offline internet
Michaelanne Dye, David Nemer, Josiah Mangiameli, Amy Bruckman, Neha Kumar
In a small, bottom-floor apartment in the center of Havana, Cuba, a grandmother browses through rows of DVDs looking for educational content for her young granddaughter. At the restaurant next door, a flat-screen TV plays Cuban reggaeton videos as patrons sway their hips and tap their feet to the…
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Cover story
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Reimagining participatory design
Liam Bannon, Jeffrey Bardzell, Susanne Bødker
We recently edited a special issue of the ACM ToCHI journal on "Reimagining Participatory Design" [1]. As a result of this process and the earlier work leading up to it, we have had many interesting discussions concerning participatory design (PD) and where it stands today. We refer the reader…
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Calendar
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Calendar
January ICTD X: 10th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (Ahmedabad, India) Conference Dates: January 4–7, 2019 https://www.ictdx.org/ ICDCN '19: 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (Bangalore, India) Conference Dates: January 4–7, 2019 https://events.csa.iisc.ac.in/icdcn2019/ ICSLT '19: 5th International Conference on e-Society, e-Learning and e-Technologies…
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Exit
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Smartphone pouch
Nicolas Nova
Contributor: Nicolas Nova Curator/Editor: Anne Spaa Genre: Ethnography Some questions to ask every designer: How would you anticipate that people will repurpose urban infrastructure for their own digital needs? To what end will people rearrange everyday objects for their own needs and purposes? Wrapping one's phone in a plastic…
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