Table of Contents
VOLUME XXX.1 January - February 2023
- WELCOME
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What are you reading?
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What Are You Reading? Brooke Bosley
Brooke Bosley
The texts I have been reading offer insight into the benefits of social movements and people's lived experiences in designing equitable futures. The first is Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown. Brown defines pleasure activism as the work we do to reclaim our happy…
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Blog@IX
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So, How Can We Measure UX?
Maximilian Speicher
The precise, quantitative measurement of user experience (UX) based on one or more metrics is invaluable for design, research, and product teams in assessing the impact of UX designs and identifying opportunities. Yet these teams often employ supposed UX metrics like conversion rate (CR) and average order value (AOV),…
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Columns
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You, Things, and the Space Between
Daria Loi
I was and I continue to be available in response [1]. What bodies of knowledge are created or experienced in the interstitial spaces between one's life sphere and one's career journey? As HCI practitioners, do we simply design things, or does that act of making also shape us? What…
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Measuring How Data Science Notebooks Evolve Over Time
Deepthi Raghunandan, Niklas Elmqvist, Leilani Battle
Data science is often mercurial, exploratory, and highly iterative [1]. Given a panoply of techniques for analyzing complex datasets, one can easily lose track of the code, output tables/visualizations, and notes associated with a data analysis session. More importantly, it can be difficult to remember why the results of…
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Post-Post-HCI
Gopinaath Kannabiran
Mullah Nasruddin was frantically searching the street at night. "What are you looking for?" asked his friend." I lost my keys," responded Nasruddin. So his friend joined him and they both continued searching. After a while, his friend asked, "Where did you last see your keys?" to which Nasruddin…
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Making/breaking
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B00B-Factor Authentication: (Un)making Intimacies and Trust
Anuradha Reddy
B00B-factor Authentication (pronounced bee-zero-zero-bee) is a project about making and breaking intimacy and trust. It combines traditional craft techniques with digital security methods such as two-factor authentication. Near-field communication (NFC) tags are incorporated into Banjara embroidery stitches, a heritage craft from my hometown, Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Taking the form…
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Forums
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Minding the Higher Contexts: Black Women’s Information Maintenance and Pleasure as Antidotes to Harm
Ana Ndumu
People need meaning—that is, the essential qualities of a fulfilled life. Our faith systems, artistic pursuits, and recreation are, at their core, meaning-making practices. Still, meaning-making as an information phenomenon remains understated. It seems that hyperconnected technologies, including social media and networked online communities, fall short of uncovering the…
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Abortion Pills and Telehealth Technology: Making Illegal Abortion Safe and Accessible
Sydney Calkin
Restrictive abortion laws don't stop abortion—they just make abortions less safe. A little over half of all pregnancies worldwide are unintended; of these unintended pregnancies, 61 percent end in abortion. Every year, 25 million unsafe abortions occur globally [1]. These unsafe abortions are the product of political choices: They…
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INTech: Designing Intersectional Learning Experiences for Black Girls
Khalia Braswell, Yolanda A. Rankin
As scholars and practitioners within the field of HCI, we often think in terms of designing technology to address a problem or to improve a societal issue. As designers, we enjoy a privileged status that allows us to use our imaginations and tools to create whatever our hearts desire.…
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Seeking Information with a More Knowledgeable Other
Michael D. Ekstrand, Maria Soledad Pera, Katherine Landau Wright
Internet users encounter numerous Al-powered systems throughout their daily life. One class of systems they frequently use directly and explicitly are information access systems: search engines, recommender systems, and other systems that facilitate users locating and accessing relevant information, products, and so on from large digital inventories. There is…
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Features
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A SWOT Analysis of Pilot Implementation
Morten Hertzum, Torkil Clemmensen, Pedro F. Campos, Barbara Rita Barricelli, Carl Emil Derby Hansen, Linnea K. Herbæk, Jose Abdelnour-Nocera, Arminda Guerra Lopes, Parisa Saadati
Over the preceding decades, usability testing became widely used for revealing design problems in information systems while they are still at the prototype stage. Normally, these tests involve removing users from their work for an hour or two to have them solve preset tasks with a system prototype in…
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Enabling Human-Centered AI: A New Junction and Shared Journey Between AI and HCI Communities
Wei Xu, Marvin Dainoff
Artificial intelligence (AI) has brought benefits, but it may also cause harm if not appropriately developed. Current development is mainly driven by a technology-centered approach, causing many failures [1,2]. For example, the AI Incident Database has documented more than a thousand AI-related accidents [3]. To address these challenges, a…
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Robots in Healthcare
Rae Yule Kim
People tend to be averse to interacting with robots and to the automation trend in general. One explanation is that many people are still susceptible to the media-generated impression of robots seen in movies such as The Terminator, where robots are not assistants but a threat to humanity. It…
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Visualization for the Blind
Niklas Elmqvist
Understanding data has become critical to everyday life. You need data to decide which products to buy, which health choices to make, and whom to vote for. People spend hours reading product reviews, browsing travel websites, and managing large amounts of data to make decisions in their personal lives.…
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Dialogues
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Living Intimately with Machines: Can AI Be Disabled?
Laura Forlano
"Auto Mode disabled by user," read the medical chart. The "smart" system had been turned off from midnight to noon the following day, an act of disobedience by the "user" (me) in order to get a few hours of sleep. This is not a research project that I chose…
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Living-with and Designing-with Plants
Oscar Tomico, Ron Wakkary, Kristina Andersen
During the past five years, the first author has been transforming his home—a flat in the city center—into the place he wants to live [1]: an entanglement of technologies, plants, humans, and others; a place where plants and humans can coexist, inhabit, and coshape the space they share [2,3].…
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Calendar
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Calendar
INTR Staff
January COMSNETS '23: 15th International Conference on Communications Systems & Networks (Bengaluru, India and hybrid) January 3–8, 2023 https://www.comsnets.org/ GROUP '22/23: ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work (Hilton Head Island, SC, USA) January 8–11, 2023 https://group.acm.org/conferences/group22/ POPL '23: 50th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles of Programming Languages (Boston,…
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Exit
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less lurid less the sky
Lindsey French, Alex Young
Contributors: Lindsey French, [email protected] Alex Young, [email protected] Curator/Editor: Nia Easley All around us in the air, plants emit volatile airborne compounds, signaling to other plants and insects. Notice the smokestack, the exhaust pipe, the heating vent: clouds of vapor and chemicals pluming into this shared airspace. We are signaling…
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