Sustainable HCI has seen a large growth in the amount of research taking place in the field. However, are we taking the most effective route to generating sustainable sustainability? In the Sustainable HCI community, a large focus of the research has been on persuasive psychological techniques to change individuals’ behaviours to be sustainable. Nevertheless, individual behaviour change has lim...

In this paper we describe the development and testing of a tool for self-assessment of affect while interacting with computer systems, meant to be used in many cultures. We discuss our research approach within the context of existing cultural, affective and HCI theory, and describe testing of its effectiveness in the US and Sweden. r 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

We explore how metaphors, and the metaphor of “magic” in particular, can be utilized in fostering layperson creativity within the context of a Participatory Design workshop. To explore this proposal, we scrutinize and combine perspectives from HCI, cultural anthropology, design studies and the study of creativity. We argue that understanding a metaphor, i.e. being aware of its cultural meanings...

The paper discusses about the need to develop design research as a discipline. By using Gibbons et al. distinction between the traditional disciplinary Mode 1 knowledge production and emerging of Mode 2 knowledge production that takes place in the context of application it shows that design has unique characteristics that should not be given up when seeking academic acceptance. Mode 1 and Mode ...

Cultural differences in cognitive processes and cognitive tools have been extensively documented. Design and use of culturally sensitive interfaces have been in demand in HCI for sometime. In this study the method of stimulated retrospective verbalization which is called here as Mind Tape study, has been used to capture cognitive differences of Danish and Indian users while interacting with cho...

When a disaster strikes the management and coordination of available resources becomes a crucial and challenging task. Hereby, availability of information and effective communication is of utmost importance. Efficient support for first responders and decision makers, coordinating the assignments, is necessary to save time and lives, as many victims might not survive long without appropriate ass...

Two fundamental (and oftentimes opposing) metaphors have directed much of HCI design: HCI is communication and HCI is direct manipulation. Beneath these HCI metaphors, however, is the unspoken metaphor of computer is woman. In this paper we expose this foundational metaphor. We begin by identifying the origin of computer is woman in the early history of computing. Drawing upon postmodern femini...

The HCI community has long been accused of delivering ‘common sense’, ‘useless’ information, and to be ignorant of business needs. HCI experts are also criticized for failing to provide or apply theory-based techniques. This paper shows that the two goals may be incompatible. It discusses one case study in which HCI data intended for one purpose were inappropriately applied to support another. ...