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VOLUME XXX.2 March - April 2023
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What are you reading?
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Jihan Sherman
Jihan Sherman
When I was younger, I thought that my introduction to design began in the first design studio I took as a freshman in college. It wasn't until much later that I realized I had been experiencing design practice for much longer. It was in my mother's kitchen, in the…
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Blog@IX
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Codesign and the Art of Creating a Global Research-Practice Network Built for Impact
Gillian R. Hayes, Candice Odgers, Julie A. Kientz, Jason C. Yip, Kiley Sobel, Morgan Ames, Anamara Ritt-Olson
Launching a global network to enhance impact and collaboration among researchers, innovative companies, venture capitalists, and foundations is a daunting task. We sought to do just that in the area of technology, learning, and child development this year. Translating founder to foundation, researcher to practice, and maker to investor…
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Exhibit X
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Lumi: Experiencing Energy as a Discrete Element
Bendik Schrøder, Laura Hurenkamp, Sampada Jayaram, Luisa María Zuluaga
What if AI could help us build novel mental models around energy consumption? This project explores object-recognition algorithms to enable new interaction modalities with energy, conceptualized as a light orb that lives inside a lantern: Lumi. When a lighting object, such as a lamp, is detected, the device sends…
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Columns
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Kinky, Leaky, Opaque: Sexual Intimacies and Data
Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Susanna Paasonen
Our first encounter with each other involved pleasure. It was on Susanna's part. She invited Jaz to her home and cooked such a memorable dinner that Jaz would often refer to it over the following years in their research into FoodCHI (food-computer-human interaction [1]). The discussion during dinner led…
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Swamped by the Internet of Things
Jonathan Bean
For someone initially skeptical about the reach of a voice assistant into my own home, I am embarrassed to count the number of microphones lying in wait for my next command. A pair of smart speakers, recently upgraded in pursuit of better sound, sit on a bookshelf in the…
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Making/breaking
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Pace Layer Prototyping: How Prototypes Learn
David Chatting
The Router of All Evil is a home WiFi router that I built to further my research through design investigation of a Network of One's Own (see http://davidchatting.com/nooo/). I view it as an exemplar of a pace layer prototype, intentionally designed to adapt and learn, able to respond to…
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Forums
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The Cyberunion 20 Years Later
Vera Khovanskaya
Twenty-one years ago, the second edition of The Cyberunion Handbook: Transforming Labor Through Computer Technology, a volume documenting the promises, challenges, and "from the trenches" experiences of unionists seeking to bring the labor movement into the Information Age, was published. The stories in the book, edited by sociologist and…
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Looking for Aadhaar in a Biometric Haystack
Vyom Anil
In October 2020, a case surfaced in Kinaru village of Muzaffarpur district, Bihar state, India: Reena Devi, a 20-year-old Dalit woman, recently widowed and the mother of two young children, had lost her Aadhaar number and was desperate to retrieve it. Like many others, Reena had no record of…
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Community square
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On Honoring Our Volunteers
SIGCHI Executive Committee
The success of SIGCHI depends wholly on the time and energy that our volunteers are able to give to it. Through the years, and particularly upon the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have heard a great deal about volunteer burnout, prompting ongoing discussions within the Executive Committee and…
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Features
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Interaction Design Solutions for Online Meetings: A University Teacher’s Wish List
Victor Kaptelinin
During the Covid pandemic, videoconferencing technologies offered universities a crucial lifeline. For me, as for millions of students and teachers around the world, the pandemic brought a sudden, massive, and intense experience of online meetings. This article is an attempt to constructively reflect on that experience. I discuss some…
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Dialogues
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Automated Indifference
David Chatting
The country houses of Victorian England were curious places. Often situated on large estates, away from the industrializing towns and cities, they were the ancestral homes of aristocratic families and the playgrounds of the nouveau riche. It was in these grand houses that many of the domestic technologies that…
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The Matter of Inside and Outside: Redefining the Sense of Home in a Pandemic World
Linnea Öhlund
Home sweet home. Home is where the heart is. There's no place like home. The list of cheesy popular sayings on home seems to go on forever. Walking into a store will reveal many more of them, painted on decorative boxes or mugs. How is it that we devote…
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Context, Culture, and Fabulations: In Search of a Home for Our Veiled African Design Stories
Hafeni Mthoko, Muhammad Adamu, Shaimaa Lazem
In 2006, Jonathan Grudin posited that the field of HCI might have no home or many homes [1]. This raises a range of questions about the status of HCI as either a metadiscipline, an eclectic discipline, or an interdisciplinarity. The HCI narrative in Africa is even more sporadic, with…
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Fabulating Otherwise
Daniela Rosner
In "Context, Culture, and Fabulations: In Search of a Home for Our Veiled African Design Stories" Hafeni Mthoko, Muhammad Adamu, and Shaimaa Lazem tell a compelling story of trying to identify and articulate an epistemic "home," a reflexive search for what is unique to African HCI. We learn that…
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HCI Fundamentals Adapted to African Contexts
Anicia Peters
"Context, Culture, and Fabulations: In Search of a Home for Our Veiled African Design Stories" is a most welcome and thought-provoking article on what African HCI is and a first attempt to determine how African HCI should be defined and the considerations for such a curriculum. Questions are often…
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Resource Man and the Smart Wife: Implications for Sustainability in the Home
Yolande Strengers
In 2014 I wrote a cover story for Interactions asking, "Are you designing for Resource Man?" [1]. The provocation was based on my research exploring the role of smart energy technologies in everyday life and their ability to support resource management and decarbonization. I argued that the energy industry…
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Calendar
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Calendar
INTR Staff
March HRI '23: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (Stockholm, Sweden, and hybrid) March 13–16, 2023 https://humanrobotinteraction.org/2023/ LAK '23: 13th International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (Arlington, TX, USA, and hybrid) March 13–17, 2023 https://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak23/general-call/ CHIIR '23: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (Austin, TX, USA,…
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Exit
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Daughter ICE
Snow Yunxue Fu
Contributor: Snow Yunxue Fu, [email protected] Curator/Editor: Nia Easley Daughter ICE is a long-term digital human art project created by new media artist Snow Yunxue Fu. Using 3D-imaging techniques such as modeling and texturing, she "gave birth" to a virtual daughter as a digital human. The physical and personality characteristics…
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