September - October 2024 | ACM Interactions

VOLUME XXXI.5 September - October 2024

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WELCOME
- Design for All, Design by All
  
  Elizabeth F. Churchill, Mikael Wiberg
  
  Welcome to the September–October 2024 issue of Interactions. As signaled by our cover art, Design for All, Design by All, and the titles featured on our cover, in this issue we have several submissions that address the issue of inclusion and inclusive design practices in critical areas. With so…
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What are you reading?
- What Are You Reading? Shamika Klassen
  
  Shamika Klassen
  
  I am happy to announce that I have just successfully defended a dissertation about how Black women, femmes, and nonbinary people imagine the future of technology. Why did I do this work and how does it relate to HCI and UX and the future of computing infrastructures? My work…
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Blog@IX
- I Am Disabled but Not ‘Impaired’
  
  Ather Sharif
  
  There are at least 1.3 billion disabled people worldwide [1]. Their disabilities include those involving sight, hearing, mobility, and cognition, among others. These individuals are disabled—if they choose to identify as such—but what they are not is "impaired." Correct usage of terminology is important. There exists a prodigious, if…
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Columns
- ‘I Feel Soothed and Cured’: The Effects of ASMR and How HCI Research Can Benefit from Them
  
  Jie Li
  
  Just before CHI 2024, I took a one-week vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii. Every night, in the little farmhouse where we stayed, we were accompanied by the sounds of coqui frogs chirping "kokee," palm leaves rustling gently, and ocean waves crashing in the distance. Initially, we were…
- Participatory Design, Beyond
  
  Daria Loi, Raphael Arar
  
  Over the past year, while collaborating on a chapter for an upcoming handbook, we had the opportunity to reflect on the persistent historical tensions that exist between academic and nonacademic sectors when applying and implementing participatory design (PD). In this column, we elaborate on these reflections and our process.…
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Forums
- Moving from Theory to Application: Black Feminist Thought as an Intersectional Framework for Design
  
  Yolanda Rankin
  
  Black women must be in charge of Black feminist thought, but being in charge does not mean that others are excluded [1]. —Patricia Hill Collins Insights → Black feminism as a critical design framework means being in relationship with Black women of diverse backgrounds, not just Black women…
- Designing with Community Health Workers in Latin America
  
  Fernanda Espinoza, Marco Da Re, Rafael A. Calvo
  
  How do we design for volunteers engaged in helping their own communities? We faced this question while designing a tool to help community health workers (CHWs) collect data from older adults in rural and remote areas of Peru. Insights → Culturally sensitive application of self-determination theory improves our…
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Community square
- The IX Questionnaire: Naomi Yamashita and Vanessa Evers
  
  Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers
  
  This is the first installment of the IX Questionnaire series, where we ask ACM SIG volunteers, with a special focus on SIGs focused on aspects of design, about their volunteer roles and contributions. First up are Naomi Yamashita and Vanessa Evers, general chairs of the CHI 2025 Conference. Tell…
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Features
- Making Voting Easier for Disabled and Overseas Voters: Secure, Accessible Virtual Voting Infrastructure
  
  Ted Selker, Justin Pelletier
  
  The user experience of voting seems simple: a mark next to a choice. The fact that it determines the direction society is headed makes creating and counting this mark a central point of control. Organizing voting processes to collect, count, and report votes correctly often seems like an arms…
- Mosaics of Personal Data: Digital Privacy During Times of Change
  
  Wendy Moncur
  
  All of us go through times of change. As some of these changes can be personally significant and socially sensitive, we should have choices about what details, if any, related to a change are shared with others. Sometimes, we may need to distance ourselves from, or even sever ties…
- AI Through Gen Z: Partnerships Toward New Research Agendas
  
  Nora McDonald, Karla Badillo-Urquiola, Afsaneh Razi, John S. Seberger, Denise E. Agosto, Pamela Wisniewski
  
  Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming almost every aspect of our daily lives, from how we tailor educational experiences to how we provide security and fight crime. It is, therefore, crucial that we begin to critically study the individual and societal impacts of AI systems, especially on young people.…
- Democratizing the Ethics of Emerging Technologies for Children
  
  Summer Schmuecker, Juan Pablo Hourcade, Meryl Alper, Jerry Alan Fails, Saba Kawas, Svetlana Yarosh
  
  In an age where technology reaches every aspect of our lives, a particularly pressing concern emerges: the unique susceptibility of children to the consequences of digital experiences. As technology becomes a central part of young children's interactions with the world, our attention is drawn not only to the potential…
- Cultivating Intrinsic Motivation in Children: Setting Goals for Interaction Design
  
  Gökçe Elif Baykal
  
  The key to many human skills—learning new information, engaging in an activity, persistence at work, building and maintaining long-term habits—is intrinsic motivation. As active learners, children are intrinsically motivated to explore phenomena in their environment [1]. Today, however, the environments of many children are filled with technological tools. As…
- A Day Using Situated Analytics: Access the Hidden Dimension!
  
  Neven ElSayed, Kim Marriott, Ross T. Smith, Bruce H. Thomas
  
  Augmented reality (AR) is the technology of enriching the physical world with additional information [1], converting users' physical environments into their user interfaces. This goal is becoming more attainable with the growth of data production and streaming technology, especially with the rapid improvement of AR displays. Insights →…
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Calendar
- Calendar
  
  INTR Staff
  
  September MuC: Mensch und Computer '23 (Karlsruhe, Germany) September 1–4, 2024 https://muc2024.mensch-und-computer.de/en/ AutomotiveUI '24 (Stanford, CA, USA) September 22–25, 2024 https://www.auto-ui.org/24/ MobileHCI '24: ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (Melbourne, Australia) September 30–October 3, 2024 https://mobilehci.acm.org/2024/ October UbiComp/ISWC '24 (Melbourne, Australia) October 5–9, 2024 https://www.ubicomp.org/ubicompiswc-2024/ VRST '24:…
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Exit
- Revealing Inner Pasts: Giuseppe Penone’s Time-Capsule
  
  Scott Minneman, Renato Verdugo
  
  Featured Artist: Giuseppe Penone Curators: Scott Minneman and Renato Verdugo The adjective mind-blowing is often used as clickbait for banal observations, but it aptly applies to Italian artist Giuseppe Penone's perspective-altering Alberi (Trees) sculptures. Since 1969, Penone has been carving mature trees and large heartwood timbers to reveal their…
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Conversations in Sketch
- Book to the Future!
  
  Miriam Sturdee
  
  Lou Rosenfeld, founder of UX book publisher and conference producer Rosenfeld Media, is doing his best to be thoughtful about AI (but he’s still worried nonetheless). "It's a terrible time in the design world, with so many layoffs, and many design skills being automated...but I feel we're in for…
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