Blogs
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Reflections on the politics of African ‘limitations’ in HCI research
Muhammad Adamu, Shaimaa Lazem Posted: Tue, July 05, 2022 - 10:46:44
Last year, I read Shaimaa’s reflection on how Indigenous cultures and folk heritage may act as a steppingstone for sustainability in the absence of resources [1]. This led to extensive…
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Speech is human and multifaceted. Our approach to studying it should be the same.
Arathi Sethumadhavan, Joe Garvin, Benjamin Noah Posted: Wed, June 22, 2022 - 9:57:27
Whether it’s the friendly virtual assistant in your smart speaker, the auto-generated captions on your YouTube video, or the software that physicians use to dictate clinical notes, voice AI has…
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Toward Understanding the Efficacy of Virtual Classrooms Among Bangladeshi Students During Covid-19
S.M. Rakibul Islam, Nabarun Halder, Ashraful Islam, Eshtiak Ahmed, Sheak Rashed Haider Noori Posted: Fri, June 03, 2022 - 11:41:22
The sudden appearance of Covid-19 forced people to stay at home due its highly infectious nature. Governments shut down countries; economies and businesses collapsed. The education system was no exception;…
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The spirit of scientific communication
Ahmet Börütecene, Oğuz Buruk Posted: Mon, February 28, 2022 - 12:46:19
How can I tell what I think till I see what I make and do? — Christopher Frayling [1] Just a couple of months before the start of the new…
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Modifying category icons in smartphone app stores for better understanding: A user-centric approach
Eshtiak Ahmed, Ashraful Islam, Farzana Anowar Posted: Fri, February 25, 2022 - 12:30:00
Recent increases in smartphone users have resulted in a great diversity of backgrounds and cultures among these users. Designers of smartphone elements need to address this diversity by making design…
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Tangible XAI
Maliheh Ghajargar, Jeffrey Bardzell, Allison Smith Renner, Peter Gall Krogh, Kristina Höök, Mikael Wiberg Posted: Tue, February 15, 2022 - 4:11:15
Computational systems are becoming increasingly smart and automated. Artificial intelligence (AI) systems perceive things in the world, produce content, make decisions for and about us, and serve as emotional companions.…
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We need to get rid of significance in A/B testing, seriously!
Maximilian Speicher Posted: Tue, February 08, 2022 - 11:20:00
In my previous job, I was responsible for all A/B testing in an e-commerce department. We worked with an external partner and took care of the whole package—from generating hypotheses…
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Could tech upgrades increase Covid risk? Covid-19 risk in public washrooms
Ilona Posner Posted: Wed, February 02, 2022 - 10:40:43
Dyson AirBlade Wash + Dry faucet instructions in English and French. Photo by Ilona Posner Many airports closed drinking fountains for fear of spreading Covid-19. Or perhaps they did it…
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Rethinking the Participatory Design Conference experience
Rachel Clarke Posted: Mon, January 31, 2022 - 4:07:02
I read an article recently that suggested with the growth of online and hybrid conferences in response to Covid-19, there were more opportunities for everyone. The focus of the article…
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Black literary technoculture and Afrofuturist rupture
Kristen Reynolds Posted: Wed, October 20, 2021 - 10:31:41
As an epigraph to her incomplete book, Parable of the Trickster, Octavia Butler writes, “[T]here’s nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” I take this to be…
