Blogs
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The perils of next-gen surveillance technology
Juan Hourcade Posted: Fri, February 22, 2019 - 3:27:20
Low-cost, high-performance, data capture, storage, and processing capabilities are changing our world. We are in the era of big data. Most large organizations are storing large amounts of data about…
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Morning greetings in a Bangladeshi way: Walking, greeting, and technology
Nova Ahmed Posted: Tue, February 05, 2019 - 10:27:01
Some colleagues and I once had a big debate about whether technology separates us or connects us. At one point, someone argued that people do not even greet each other…
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Automatizing the power grid
Catherine Bischofberger Posted: Tue, January 29, 2019 - 3:16:36
In this day and age, relations between humans and machines have become rather fraught. A growing number of anxieties crystallize around the use of robots and automation in various industries,…
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Making the child-computer interaction field grow up?
Olof Torgersson, Tilde Bekker, Wolmet Barendregt, Eva Eriksson, Christopher Frauenberger Posted: Fri, October 05, 2018 - 2:49:57
Child-computer interaction (CCI) as a specialized field within human-computer interaction (HCI) has developed gradually, from the early works of Seymour Papert and Mitchel Resnick at MIT to the more recent…
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SketchBlog #1: The rise and rise of the sketchnote
Miriam Sturdee Posted: Tue, August 14, 2018 - 10:36:38
This blog post was co-authored by: Miriam Sturdee, postdoctoral fellow in sketching and visualization, University of Calgary,[email protected] Makayla Lewis, research fellow, Brunel University London, [email protected] Nicolai Marquardt, senior lecturer in…
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Being an HCI researcher working with refugees
Reem Talhouk Posted: Thu, August 09, 2018 - 9:47:44
In our July–August 2018 Interactions article, “HCI and Refugees: Experiences and Reflections,” my co-authors and I really wanted to document all the discussions we have been having about what it…
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‘What people see’ versus ‘what people do’: Some thoughts on the cover story on visualizations
Nikiforos Karamanis Posted: Mon, August 06, 2018 - 11:24:53
I read with a lot of interest the latest cover story on data visualizations by Danielle Albers Szafir, particularly since I recently gave an introductory seminar on this topic to…
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Values tensions in academia: An exploration within the HCI community
Team ViC Posted: Mon, June 25, 2018 - 11:31:49
Wish you were here - by @_JPhelps February and March 2018 saw the largest ever industrial action in the U.K.’s higher-education sector. While the cause of the strike was changes…
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Reflecting on the design-culture connection in HCI and HCI4D apropos of Interact 2017 field trips
José Abdelnour-Nocera Posted: Tue, May 01, 2018 - 12:15:45
Note: This blog post was co-authored by Nimmi Rangaswamy, associate professor at the Kohli Centre on Intelligent Systems, Indian Institute of Information Technology, IIIT, Hyderabad. She brings an anthropological lens…
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Fair technology
Juan Hourcade Posted: Fri, April 27, 2018 - 12:10:30
The means of destruction have developed pari passu with the technology of production, while creative imagination has not kept pace with either. The creative imagination I am talking of works…
