Much HCI research has been devoted to encouraging sustainable decisions, but only recently have researchers begun to engage with how users define sustainability. This study explores the definition of sustainability, and its relation to other concerns, among visitors to a farmers’ market. Using cultural probes, we are exploring not only how people define sustainability, but also how the constitu...

In this position paper, the two terms design-oriented research and research-oriented design are studied and discussed in some detail in relation to HCI. In designoriented research—where research is the area and design the means—the production of new knowledge and the questioning of problem descriptions and other kinds of limitations to the freedom of design are seen as characterizing elements. ...

Space and spatiality have been some of the biggest influences on HCI research. However, as technology increasingly moves into mobile contexts there has been a growing need to understand the sociological and cultural aspects of our connections to our environments. This paper presents a conceptual framework developed from the notion of ‘relational space’ from cultural geography. It discusses the ...

This paper argues that diversity in HCI is legitimate, and indeed a source of richness. The diversity is directly analogous to the diversity in ethics, a field that has had millenia to develop and mature. This paper then addresses not HCI in society but, more specifically, the functioning and purpose of the HCI community as an ethically cohesive society. The paper exhibits some current problems...

I argue in this paper for the value of adopting some specific design approaches when creating slow technology, how to create long lasting relationships with technology, and how to design reflective or slow digital interactions. The problem I have addressed is how to design for long lasting technologies with changing users. My approach is informed by activity theory, which provides a theoretical...

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 a paper at HCI International 1991, Bevan et al (1991) asked “What is usability?”, and distinguished between broad and narrow approaches to usability. This paper builds on that distinction, identifying the broad approach to usability with the higher level quality objective of “quality of use” (Bevan, 1995a). Quality of use should be the major design objective for an interactive product: does ...

This paper presented a brief outline of hardware and software problems occurred at the beginning of HCI system developments (within the framework of last 25 years), research activities and results achieved by Czech academic institutions. The summary evaluates the reached stage and briefly suggests possible progression of HCI activities in the Czech Republic within next few years.

ICT could be a powerful tool for development, but how appropriate are developed-world HCI methods? Should we 'parachute in' foreign methods, do we have more to learn than to teach?

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