Current human–computer interaction (HCI) paradigms are deeply rooted in a Western epistemology that attests its partiality and bias of its embedded assumptions, values, definitions, techniques, and derived frameworks and models. Thus tensions created between local cultures and HCI principles require researchers to pursue a more critical research agenda within an indigenous epistemology. In this...

This position paper for the Princeton/Rockefeller conference “Migrant Youth and Children of Migrants in a Globalized World” offers a tentative framework for organizing research directions on the subject of children and migration. This is informed by several themes that are a part of the position paper by Tienda, Taylor, and Maughan (2007), as well as of the survey papers by Harttgen and Klasen ...

O ncology is ever more patient-centric, and the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) is setting standards to that end. The organization, which has been accrediting oncology clinics since 1933, has expanded its focus beyond oncology and treatment standards to include several complementary supportive-care programs designed to enhance a patient's cancer experience. These new sta...

As a science teacher I often tried to "shift" the viewing of world by my middle-school students from being very human-centric towards one that was more focused on as experienced organisms in (eco)systems we were studying, think about "level" and richness lived experiences they having. One approach used showing them scenes movie "Honey Shrunk Kids" where view human participants considerably shru...

From a supply and demand point of view, the trend toward forest-products certification appears simple: some retail consumers may prefer to buy products from forests managed in an environmentally sound way while some forest owners may be willing to alter their management practices in order to sell to these consumers. However, as the authors indicate, the issue of communicating to consumers the d...

Moving away from decades of machine-centric computing and making pervasive human-centric computing, the new wave of computing, a reality revolutionises the relationship between humans and computing systems. In order to implement the vision of pervasive human-centric computing, it is necessary to reform software engineering education to well prepare graduates of software engineering programmes f...

Humans are animals; humans are machines. The current academic and popular dialogue on extending the personhood boundary to certain non-human animal species and at the same time to machines/robots reflects a dialectic about how “being human” is defined, about how we perceive our species and ourselves in relation to the environment. While both paths have the potential to improve lives, these impr...