Blogs
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Mobile tracking and privacy in the coronavirus pandemic
Montathar Faraon Posted: Thu, April 09, 2020 - 10:08:59
The worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is putting pressure on and testing societies, companies, and citizens. Life, health, and jobs are at stake. In this critical moment, the HCI…
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Reflections on helping research partners who support those made vulnerable during the crisis
Angelika Strohmayer Posted: Tue, April 07, 2020 - 12:04:11
Over the past few days, I have had many conversations with friends and colleagues who work with charities, libraries, and other organizations who support some of the most vulnerable people…
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Feeding the futures of human-food interaction
Marketa Dolejsova, Hilary Davis, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Danielle Wilde Posted: Fri, April 03, 2020 - 3:59:48
Human-food interaction (HFI) is a burgeoning research area that traverses multiple HCI disciplines and draws on diverse methods and approaches to bring focus to the interplay between humans, food, and…
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HCI and interaction design versus Covid-19
Peter Dalsgaard Posted: Fri, April 03, 2020 - 10:07:36
The Covid-19 pandemic has spread across the globe at unprecedented speed, with massive consequences. Our lives and societies have been suddenly transformed, and many have a sense that when the…
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Drawn together – the role of sketching in product design
Jess Phoa Posted: Wed, December 11, 2019 - 2:28:51
I’ve always loved expressing myself through visual means for as long as I can remember: When I was a kid, I created art with reckless abandon. I didn’t care what…
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Sitting with Hakken
Gopinaath Kannabiran Posted: Tue, December 03, 2019 - 1:02:38
The last time I met David Hakken was at his office. We both knew it would be the last time we would meet. He was very calm. It felt very…
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Reflections on mental health assessment and ethics for machine learning applications
Anja Thieme, Danielle Belgrave, Akane Sano, Gavin Doherty Posted: Fri, November 01, 2019 - 11:33:18
As part of the ACII 2019 conference in Cambridge (U.K.), we ran a workshop on “Machine Learning for Affective Disorders” (ML4AD). The workshop was well attended and had an extensive…
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Synthesizing family perspectives on health: Using fun activities to stimulate health conversations
Jomara Sandbulte , Jordan Beck, Janice Whitaker, John Carroll Posted: Mon, October 07, 2019 - 3:02:05
Many families have difficulty carrying out healthy behavior practices in their household. Since conversations about health and well-being are infrequent within families, it becomes more challenging to cultivate those practices…
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Finsterworlds: Bringing light into technological forests through user empowerment
Johannes Schöning Posted: Tue, August 13, 2019 - 2:12:03
I am really fascinated by novel technology. This had already started in kindergarten, but when I studied computer science I read Mark Weiser’s seminal paper “The Computer for the 21st…
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The purpose of visualization is insight, not pictures: An interview with Ben Shneiderman
Jessica Hullman Posted: Mon, August 05, 2019 - 3:10:09
Few people in visualization research have had careers as long and as impactful as Ben Shneiderman. I caught up with Ben over email in between his travels to get his…
