hci for digital civics 2015/16 week 1

Human-Computer Interactionfor Digital Civics

Week 1: Intro to the Module

John Vines john.vines@ncl.ac.uk

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BUILD FLAT-PACK DESK

PAINT WHITE AND ASK DESK

USERS TO TRACE MOVEMENTS

TRANSFORM DOCUMENTATION

OF PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS

INTO COMPUTATIONAL TASKS

TRANSFER KNOWLEDGE INTO

DIGITALLY AUGMENTED DESK

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© 2006-2008 john vines www.johnvines.eu / john.c.vines@gmail.com / +44 (0) 7712 825 513 page 14

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2.

3.

P.T.O.

BUILD FLAT-PACK DESK

PAINT WHITE AND ASK DESK

USERS TO TRACE MOVEMENTS

TRANSFORM DOCUMENTATION

OF PHYSICAL MOVEMENTS

INTO COMPUTATIONAL TASKS

TRANSFER KNOWLEDGE INTO

DIGITALLY AUGMENTED DESK

4.

© 2006-2008 john vines www.johnvines.eu / john.c.vines@gmail.com / +44 (0) 7712 825 513 page 14

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OK, then, so … what is HCI?

a hybridity of disciplines, and historically in the UK there is very little ”formal” teaching in “HCI”

Computer Science Engineering

Design Cognitive Psychology

Social Science

Informatics Social Psychology

Arts Practice Sociology

Philosophy

This module: Explore this diversity

11 Seminars (like this)

Before: Reading of one foundational HCI paper each + identifying one additional paper

During: Structured group work

After: Reflective and critical writing in-between

This module: Explore this diversity

Module website:

http://openlab.ncl.ac.uk/hci-digitalcivics-2015

(will be online by the end of the weekend…)

This module: Explore this diversity

Session times:

Wednesday’s between 11 and 1

EXCEPT

29th October, 5th & 12th November Thursdays between 9 and 11

Assignments

Formative (just for feedback)A ‘public’ blog post each week (300 to 500 words)

- - you still have to do these! - -

Summative (you get assessed on these)

A longer blog post (up to 3000 words) at end of module

A 10 minute presentation to us all at the very end

Deadlines: 12th January 2016

Close Reading in groups (45 minutes)

read your section of the paper (slowly)

highlight ‘key’ parts and annotate the text

what is the most important idea in each paragraph?

how do the authors explain their ideas?

How do the authors connect to the work of others?

Can you relate ideas to something else you already understand, or can these ideas influence your thinking?

Publication practices in HCI

http://dl.acm.org/

“CHI”: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

“CSCW”: Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

“UbiComp”: Joint Conference on Pervasive

and Ubiquitous Computing

“DIS”: Designing Interactive Systems

Publication practices in HCI

“TOCHI”: Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM)

Human-Computer Interaction (Taylor and Francis)

“IJHCS”: International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (Elsevier)

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (Taylor and Francis)

Interacting with Computers (Oxford)

Computers in Human Behavior (Elsevier)

Before next week

1. between now and the next seminar, read your set paper following the tips and tactics used today

2. identify one paper from the ACM Digital Library

that “exemplifies HCI to you” – bring this next week

3. by the end of Tuesday, write a short (more than 300 words, less than 500) review of your set paper – make this critical (but not a critique!). At the end, tell

us what other paper you have identified.