CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
During the last few years, there have been debates over what is context and how computers should act upon it. Two disparate camps of thought can be recognized. First, Realism, hav...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
In traditional computer games, it is not uncommon for the game world to be inhabited by numerous computergenerated characters, Non-Player Characters (NPCs). In pervasive games, pl...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
This paper addresses design agendas in Human-Computer Interaction and neighbouring fields motivated by the mixing of areas that were mostly kept separate until recently, such as m...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Baran and Sweezy’s 1966 study of U.S. capitalism [2] argued that its fundamental problem is not “diminishing returns” but “the tendency of surplus to rise” – from whic...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
This paper describes an ongoing design experience conducted in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Premature Newborns. The specificity and the delicateness of such a setting prov...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Critical computing should include a concern for the everyday work practice of IT professionals. We explain our ‘micro-ethical view’, which shifts focus towards everyday work c...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Learning management systems (LMSs) are receiving much attention in Nordic education. While they undoubtedly provide opportunities for educational innovations and can efficiently f...
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
CRITICAL
2005
13 years 10 months ago
2005
While affective computing explicitly challenges the primacy of rationality in cognitivist accounts of human activity, at a deeper level it relies on and reproduces the same inform...