Covid-19
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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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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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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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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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We need to talk about digital contact tracing
Ali Alkhatib Posted: Mon, June 15, 2020 - 4:34:49
Recently, Apple and Google discussed developing and distributing a digital contact-tracing system that will inform people when they’ve been exposed to someone who’s contracted Covid-19, and communicate to people that…
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Comics as Covid-19 response: Visualizing the experience of videoconferencing with aging relatives
Ernesto Priego, Peter Wilkins Posted: Fri, June 12, 2020 - 10:40:33
In the period between March and May 2020, we have been working on simultaneous projects employing qualitative methods to create comics in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. We have been…
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How can designers fight the coronavirus?
Nikhil Welankar Posted: Wed, June 10, 2020 - 9:41:53
Most of us had never imagined that countries would have to declare lockdowns to protect their citizens from the coronavirus outbreak. In its wake, government authorities, health departments, doctors, nurses,…
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What Is the future of data sharing for research?
Giovanna Vilaza Posted: Mon, June 08, 2020 - 9:30:55
Digital data collection for health research usually follows well-established methods. In many of the labs that work with mobile sensing, research subjects are provided with consent forms, task instructions, and…
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Is remote the new normal? Reflections on Covid-19, technology, and humankind
Yvonne Rogers Posted: Thu, May 28, 2020 - 1:46:39
Covid-19 forced governments to urge full or partial lockdown measures to slow the progression of the pandemic. By the end of March, more than 100 countries had “locked down” billions…
