Covid-19
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Technology use and vulnerability among seniors in Sweden during Covid
Linnea Öhlund Posted: Wed, January 20, 2021 - 2:20:00
From its place of origin, Wuhan, China, the coronavirus has spread worldwide and infected millions of people. Countries have adopted various strategies to curb the spread of the virus, social…
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How fragmentation can undermine the public health response to Covid-19
Andrew Tzer-Yeu Chen Posted: Fri, October 30, 2020 - 4:24:04
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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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 - 12:39:52
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 - 10:29:41
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 - 11:08:58
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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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 - 9:22:03
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 - 9:30:03
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 - 10:27:18
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 - 9:28:52
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 - 1:37:22
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…
