Blogs
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Utopian futures for sexuality, aging, and design
Britta Schulte, Marie Søndergaard, Rens Brankaert, Kellie Morrissey Posted: Tue, January 19, 2021 - 1:35:54
This excerpt is from a letter to a future self, a story written at a workshop held at DIS 2020 [1], where participants reframed and reimagined what intimacy might mean…
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Cultivating activism with speculative design
Richmond Wong, Nick Merrill Posted: Fri, December 18, 2020 - 4:29:36
As design researchers, we love our speculative methods—methods for imagining possible futures—and opening them up to discussion and critique. But what good do they do? Designing speculative futures to discuss…
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A call for respect, inclusion, fairness, and transparency in SIGCHI
Fempower.tech Posted: Thu, December 03, 2020 - 3:59:36
We are writing this blog post as a response to the discussions about exclusion and oppression within SIGCHI that occurred on the Interactions blog in summer 2020, and a call…
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How fragmentation can undermine the public health response to Covid-19
Andrew Tzer-Yeu Chen Posted: Fri, October 30, 2020 - 5:24:04
At this point, we are all familiar with Covid-19 and its impacts on ourselves, our communities, and our world. Responses to the disease have largely been led by local, national,…
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Future directions for situationally induced impairments and disabilities research
Garreth Tigwell, Zhanna Sarsenbayeva, Benjamin Gorman, David Flatla, Jorge Goncalves, Yeliz Yesilada, Jacob Wobbrock Posted: Tue, October 06, 2020 - 1:29:59
Mobile devices are our constant companions. We use them in varied contexts and situations, such as outside on a cold street, lying down in a dark bedroom, and commuting to…
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Fighting Coronavirus with Faith: Religious and Parareligious Responses to Covid-19 in Bangladesh
Sharifa Sultana, A.K.M. Najmul Islam, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Posted: Wed, September 16, 2020 - 1:39:52
Many communities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America—often left out of human-computer interaction (HCI) discussions—defy the boundary of scientific rationality and seek healthcare and well-being from various traditional faith-based practices.…
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Learning remotely, making locally: Remote digital fabrication instruction during a pandemic
Jennifer Jacobs, Nadya Peek Posted: Fri, September 04, 2020 - 11:29:41
The Covid-19 pandemic has fundamentally disrupted learning by requiring a society-wide shift to remote instruction. This shift has raised specific challenges for students and educators in classes that rely on…
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Planning and designing for the inevitable
Pallabi Roy Singh Posted: Wed, August 26, 2020 - 12:08:58
If there is one big lesson from Covid-19, it is that we live in a world of risk. Disasters and epidemics and pandemics are part and parcel of the fabric…
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Auto-UI: Global perspectives
Christian Janssen, Ronald Schroeter, Nic Bidwell, Yong Gu Ji, Ignacio Alvarez, Shan Bao, Myounghoon Jeon, Linda Boyle, Stella Donker, Lewis Chuang, Wendy Ju, Andrew Kun Posted: Wed, August 12, 2020 - 10:40:49
ACM SIGCHI Auto-UI is a growing community, but one in which some continents were less involved than expected and hoped for. For the 2019 conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands, we…
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Learning and education in HCI: A reflection on the SIG at CHI 2019
Viktoria Pammer-Schindler, Erik Harpstead, Benjamin Xie, Betsy DiSalvo, Ahmed Kharrufa, Petr Slovak, Amy Ogan, Joseph Jay Williams, Michael Lee Posted: Tue, August 04, 2020 - 11:09:15
The field of human-computer interaction (HCI) has always been interested in aspects of learning. HCI researchers have spent decades investigating how people learn to use interfaces, with designing for learnability…
