Blogs
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This is not the new normal: Studying during a pandemic
Ana-Catalina Sabie, Katharina Brunnmayr, Kristina Weinberger, Renée Sophie Singer, Rafael Vrecar, Katta Spiel Posted: Wed, May 13, 2020 - 2:31:59
table, th, td { padding: 10px; border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: collapse; } Illustration by Renée Sophie Singer. Austria began its lockdown on March 10, 2020. Just three days later,…
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Notes on running an online academic conference, or how we got zoombombed and lived to tell the tale
Barry Brown Posted: Tue, May 12, 2020 - 10:11:09
Due to the coronavirus, the biggest conference in our research field (the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) was canceled in April, just a few weeks before…
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Designs on solidarity
Daniela Rosner, Nicole Rosner Posted: Fri, May 08, 2020 - 10:47:48
If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work…
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The emerging need for touchless interaction technologies
Muhammad Zahid Iqbal, Abraham Campbell Posted: Wed, May 06, 2020 - 1:47:42
With the spread of Covid-19, the world of interaction technology research has completely changed: The pandemic has created a higher demand for technologies that allow us to avoid touching devices.…
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‘Together, we dance alone’: Building a collective toolkit for creatives in a pandemic
Kat Braybrooke Posted: Tue, May 05, 2020 - 11:04:21
It seems to me that, if we can talk about such a thing as the tasks of resilience, then today these tasks will share that quality of taking responsibility: not…
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Life less normal
Alex Taylor Posted: Thu, April 30, 2020 - 8:41:00
Is that how we lived then? But we lived as usual. Everyone does, most of the time. Whatever is going on is as usual. Even this is as usual, now.…
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Design thinking around Covid-19: Focusing on the garment workers of Bangladesh
Nova Ahmed, Rahat Jahangir Rony, Kimia Tuz Zaman Posted: Tue, April 28, 2020 - 9:57:47
What’s going to happen to these garment workers? It was a question from my young colleagues Rahat and Kimia. We were working with garment workers in Bangladesh, where the garment…
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Entanglements
Christopher Frauenberger Posted: Mon, April 27, 2020 - 5:27:42
As people around the world try to make sense of a new normal, many commentators are saying that this global pandemic will change us permanently. Indeed, the shifts in the…
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Sustainable practices for the academic business sector: Publish in journals such as ToCHI
Kristina Höök, Rob Comber Posted: Fri, April 24, 2020 - 3:15:06
ACM Transactions on Computer–Human Interaction (ToCHI) is the premier ACM journal for HCI research. Founded in 1994, the journal has been publishing research at the cutting edge of HCI every…
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Workshops are now required to be conducted remotely—is this a bad thing?
Vikram Singh Posted: Thu, April 23, 2020 - 2:22:55
There's a palpable sense of anxiety in the recent global shift to home working. Both bosses and workers are feeling the loss of the benefits of in-person gatherings, such as…
