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VOLUME XXV.2 March-April 2018
- WELCOME
- Demo Hour
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What are you reading?
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What are you reading? Silvia Lindtner
Silvia Lindtner
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As I work toward the completion of a book on the cultures and politics of making, a central body of work that informs my current thinking is concerned with processes of economization, the making of markets and finance, and contemporary forms of capitalism and neoliberal technology. Making is often…
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Blog@IX
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A tent, a pigeon house, and a pomegranate tree
Shaimaa Lazem, Danilo Giglitto, Anne Preston
After the 2011 revolution in Egypt, the country faced a challenging socioeconomic transition. Since then, the ICT sector has become one of the most promising contributors to Egypt's economic growth. In 2014, the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology announced the Social Responsibility Strategy in ICT, with an inclusive…
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How was it made?
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Collidoscope
Ben Bengler, Fiore Martin, Nick Bryan-Kinns
Describe what you made. Collidoscope is an interactive, collaborative musical instrument that allows users to seamlessly record, manipulate, explore, and perform real-world sounds. Using built-in microphones, players can record sounds (e.g., their voice) into Collidoscope and then explore these sounds using large sliders alongside the displayed waveforms. In this…
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Columns
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Staging a social community experience
Uday Gajendar
How does one approach the creation of a conference—or any event that pulls together people of diverse perspectives into a forum of shared social interaction and mutual knowledge exchange, such as team summits, discovery workshops, or design sprints? If you think about it—no, really, think back to the past…
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Can digital interactions support new dialogue around heritage?
Luigina Ciolfi
My abracadabra wish for interaction design is for the field to take a renewed look at heritage as a practiced domain, to go beyond the visitor-interpretation-focused functional approach of conveying content, often in only one "institutional" voice. Interaction design and cultural heritage have a long and sometimes conflicting relationship.…
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- Day in the Lab
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Forums
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Designing against the status quo
Vera Khovanskaya, Lynn Dombrowski, Ellie Harmon, Matthias Korn, Ann Light, Michael Stewart, Amy Voida
Innovation. Transformation. Disruption. These buzzwords suggest that the impacts of new technologies are all somehow revolutionary. Yet despite micro-disruptions to specific practices, new computing tools often fall short, reinforcing the status quo in new material forms. A smartphone appeals with the promise of working from the beach instead of…
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Game-inspired architecture and architecture-inspired games
Charlotte Wiberg
Let me start with a question: Why should we turn to the gaming industry for understanding the interplay between architecture and interaction design? Well, it's true that interaction design and architecture are increasingly intertwined [1]. So we cannot really turn to only one or the other for answers. Instead,…
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Flying from the pigeon hole: Moving beyond methodological expertise in product-development orgs
David Siegel
Until the day my mother died, she maintained that she could not understand what I did for a living. Yes, she had heard my elevator pitch about helping to make technology more useful, easier to learn, and more natural for people to use. But this attempt to concisely summarize…
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Baraza! Human-computer interaction education in Africa
Shaimaa Lazem, Susan Dray
Africa is the continent with the youngest population, the most languages (between 1,500 and 2,000), and the second-largest area, with 54 countries, two de facto states, and 10 territories. It is a continent where information and communications technologies (ICT) are growing and promising transformational change. Locally developed technologies that…
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Collaborative art practice as HCI research
Laewoo Kang, Steven Jackson
Can art practice be a method for HCI research and inquiry? Over the past several years, work by our lab [1,2] and others [3,4] has highlighted the value and possibility of experimental collaborations with artists as a method of HCI research and design. By offering opportunities to integrate aesthetic…
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Inviting silence: An ambient digital living media system in the home
Foad Hamidi, Melanie Baljko
In her seminal book Alone Together, Sherry Turkle draws a sobering picture of the confusion and stress that many young children expressed when interacting with autonomous robot pets, such as AIBO and Furby [1]. These robots are specifically designed to be taken care of by children and to simulate…
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Community square
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Reflections on community growth in Philadelphia
PhillyCHI Board
Established 12 years ago in the City of Brotherly Love, the Philadelphia chapter of ACM SIGCHI—known as PhillyCHI—strives to personify a welcoming atmosphere that matches the city's nickname. We aim to create a fun, engaging, and safe environment for UXers of varying backgrounds and experience levels to make connections…
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Features
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SPECIAL TOPIC: Design Futures - Introduction
Christopher Le Dantec
As interaction designers, our attention is often split. Much of our time is spent perfecting the details of the products and services currently circulating in the world: refining established interaction techniques, tightening visual design language for economy and communication, shoring up the pathways our customers follow to get professional…
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Can we look to science fiction for innovation in HCI?
Daniel Russell, Svetlana Yarosh
We all want to invent the future. One approach to future invention is the notion that real design and science can be inspired by science fiction narratives, which define and illuminate user interaction issues [1]. Science fiction takes its future-facing ideas fairly seriously, and considerable ink has been spilled…
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Afrofuturism, inclusion, and the design imagination
Woodrow Winchester
The excitement associated with the recent release (February 2018) of the Marvel film Black Panther has been infectious. Provocative and visceral, the trailers and associated imagery and commentary have been inspiring to me both as a black science fiction fan and, in particular, as a human-centered design (HCD) educator…
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Citizen observatories: Challenges informing an HCI design research agenda
Ahmed Seffah
Engaging non-scientists in scientific data collection and research is known as citizen science [1]. It has also been defined as scientific citizenship, foregrounding the necessity of opening up science and science-policy processes to the public. It has been widely discussed as the public participation in science and communication projects…
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Mixed play spaces: Augmenting digital storytelling with tactile objects
Becca Glowacki
In 2016, the U.K. media watchdog Ofcom published a report from a three-year study that focused on how children use media [1]. Their findings suggest that younger children tend to use mobile devices for passive media consumption. Children are motivated to use mobile devices such as iPads or tablets…
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Cover story
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The business of UX strategy
Daniel Rosenberg
UX platforms, technology, and development methods have evolved rapidly over the past decade. With every passing month comes an announcement of a new device, operating system, or UI toolkit. Open source libraries, Web-service APIs, and agile method flavors continue to proliferate like rabbits. This incessant pace of innovation yields…
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Special topic: Design futures
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SPECIAL TOPIC: Design Futures - Introduction
Christopher Le Dantec
As interaction designers, our attention is often split. Much of our time is spent perfecting the details of the products and services currently circulating in the world: refining established interaction techniques, tightening visual design language for economy and communication, shoring up the pathways our customers follow to get professional…
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Can we look to science fiction for innovation in HCI?
Daniel Russell, Svetlana Yarosh
We all want to invent the future. One approach to future invention is the notion that real design and science can be inspired by science fiction narratives, which define and illuminate user interaction issues [1]. Science fiction takes its future-facing ideas fairly seriously, and considerable ink has been spilled…
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Afrofuturism, inclusion, and the design imagination
Woodrow Winchester
The excitement associated with the recent release (February 2018) of the Marvel film Black Panther has been infectious. Provocative and visceral, the trailers and associated imagery and commentary have been inspiring to me both as a black science fiction fan and, in particular, as a human-centered design (HCD) educator…
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Futures as design: Explorations, images, and participations
Sandjar Kozubaev
We invent the future in the present. We are what we think the future will be. —Gene Youngblood It is an exciting time for a designer to be thinking about futures. Temporality has always been a key part of design because designers devise ways to transform a current situation…
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Calendar
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Calendar
INTR Staff
March HRI '18: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (Chicago, USA) Conference Dates: March 5–8, 2018 http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2018/ IUI '18: 23rd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (Tokyo, Japan) Conference Dates: March 7–11, 2018 http://iui.acm.org/2018 CHIIR '18: Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (New Brunswick, USA) Conference Dates: March…
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Exit
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Response traces
You-Yang Hu, Chiao-Chi Chou
Contributor: You-Yang Hu and Chiao-Chi Chou, Shih Chien University Curator/Editor: Rachel Clarke Genre: Art installation Connecting a grandson with his grandfather, a typewriter automatically generates poems about the growth of the grandchild. An electric unit heats up the keys to stamp words onto thermal paper to highlight warmth and…
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