This chapter starts with an introduction illuminating the theoretical background necessary for taking culture into account in HCI design. Definitions of concepts used are provided followed by a historical overview on taking culture into account in HCI design. Subsequently, a glimpse of the current state of research in culture-centered HCI design is derived from secondary literature providing th...

The History of HCI is briefly reviewed together with three HCI models and structure including CSCW, CSCL and CSCR. It is shown that a number of authorities consider HCI to be a fragmented discipline with no agreed set of unifying design principles. An analysis of usability criteria based upon citation frequency of authors is performed in order to discover the eight most recognised HCI principles.

In this position paper, we argue that usable privacy and security is a grand challenge that needs more attention from the HCI community. We also discuss benefits to and new challenges for HCI, and use our research experiences to provide a critique of HCI. Usable Privacy and Security: A Grand Challenge for HCI Jason I. Hong Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh PA 15213

HCI has borrowed some concepts from existential phenomenology, in particular Dreyfus’s interpretation of Heidegger’s philosophy. Not all concepts have been widely discussed, and it is urgently important to investigate further consequences of existential phenomenology on research and design of technology. ”Presence-at-hand” and ”readiness-at-hand” are two concepts that have been accomodated into...

Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) is a National Science Foundation (NSF) multidisciplinary project dedicated to designing a cyberinfrastructure (CI) for mesoscale meteorology. This paper considers how the fundamental structure and responsibilities of the project have complicated and delayed the inclusion of HumanComputer Interaction (HCI) design in the project. Through close ...

Current evaluation methods are inappropriate for emerging HCI applications. In this paper, we give three examples of these applications and show that traditional evaluation methods fail. We identify trends in HCI development and discuss the issues that arise with evaluation. We aim at achieving increased awareness that evaluation too has to evolve in order to support the emerging trends in HCI ...

In this commentary, we elaborate on the necessity to choose among a wider, higher-level conceptual approach and a more concrete, skills oriented one in HCI education, as a result of HCI enlarging scope and curriculum pressures. First, the role and usefulness of more abstract topics are discussed, and second, some reflections on how to cover them in HCI education are presented.

Current evaluation methods are inappropriate for emerging HCI applications. In this paper, we give three examples of such applications and show that traditional evaluation methods fail. We identify trends in HCI development and discuss the issues that arise with evaluation. We aim at achieving increased awareness that evaluation also has to evolve in order to support the emerging trends in HCI ...

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education needs re-thinking. In this paper, we explore how and what creativity and design thinking could contribute with, if included as a part of the HCI curriculum. The findings from courses where design thinking was included, indicate that design thinking contributed to increased focus on innovation and creativity, as well as prevented too early fixation on a...

From 18.01.07 to 23.02.07, the Dagstuhl Seminar 07081 EndUser Software Engineering was held in the International Conference and Research Center (IBFI), Schloss Dagstuhl. During the seminar, several participants presented their current research, and ongoing work and open problems were discussed. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar as well as abstracts of seminar results and i...