Blogs
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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…
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Online embodied interaction: Learning physical interaction design online
Annika Waern, Andreas Bergqvist, Shuang Feng, Nikolay Georgiev, Karan Manjunath, Alessandra Semeraro, Ruochen Wang, Laia Turmo Vidal Posted: Mon, August 03, 2020 - 10:22:03
On March 17, 2020, the rector at Uppsala University, Sweden, declared that all teaching would move online, effective immediately. The authors of this blog post were teachers and students in…
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How we need to change for more inclusive and open publication practices
Julie Williamson Posted: Fri, July 10, 2020 - 11:18:44
Tldr; While progress toward more inclusive and open publications can be made through top-down policy, power within SIGCHI is distributed across a wide range of volunteers beyond the Executive Committee,…
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Announcing a new CHI subcommittee: Critical and Sustainable Computing
Rob Comber, Shaowen Bardzell, Jeffrey Bardzell, Mike Hazas, Michael Muller Posted: Wed, July 08, 2020 - 10:30:03
Reflecting rising interest in sustainability, social justice, aesthetic experiences, and critical computing throughout the HCI community in the past decade, ACM CHI now features a subcommittee devoted to such concerns:…
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For CS
Loren Britton, Helen Pritchard Posted: Tue, July 07, 2020 - 11:27:18
In the text that follows, we share our conversations during the early days of the pandemic. In this moment when many things get reduced to usefulness, we propose stories that…
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Heeding the call for action
Sarah Fox Posted: Thu, July 02, 2020 - 10:40:23
Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground. — Frederick Douglass [1] It's time to implement the immensely clear…
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Reflections on planning and running a virtual Doctoral Consortium at CHI 2020
Duncan Brumby, Koji Yatani, Leah Findlater Posted: Tue, June 30, 2020 - 10:28:52
This article describes what was done to run a virtual Doctoral Consortium at CHI 2020. The event was originally planned as an in-person, two-day event to take place in Honolulu,…
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‘A call to action for the ACM’ liberates all of us
Lilly Irani Posted: Mon, June 29, 2020 - 10:53:23
Women of today are still being called upon to stretch across the gap of male ignorance and to educate men as to our existence and our needs. This is an…
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The best tech for contact tracing? Systems designed for healthcare workers
Margaret Bourdeaux, Mary Gray, Barbara Grosz Posted: Fri, June 26, 2020 - 2:37:22
Given the ongoing sense of urgency, some, particularly in technology circles, wonder if waiting for a healthcare worker to track down the virus makes sense. In a fight that depends…
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Listen, learn, respond, act
Lucy Suchman Posted: Thu, June 25, 2020 - 11:32:41
For those of us who occupy the closed worlds of privilege, it is time to listen. I write as a cisgender woman who has lived my life as White, academically…
