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ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Materializing energy
Motivated and informed by perspectives on sustainability and design, this paper draws on a diverse body of scholarly works related to energy and materiality to articulate a perspe...
James Pierce, Eric Paulos
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
HCI and environmental sustainability: the politics of design and the design of politics
Many HCI researchers have recently begun to examine the opportunities to use ICTs to promote environmental sustainability and ecological consciousness on the part of technology us...
Paul Dourish
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
LumiBots: making emergence graspable in a swarm of robots
Emergence is a concept that is not easy to grasp, since it contradicts our idea of central control and planning. In this work, we use a swarm of robots as a tangible tool to visua...
Mey Lean Kronemann, Verena Vanessa Hafner
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
The CLOTHO project: predicting application utility
When using the computer, each user has some notion that "these applications are important" at a given point in time. We term this subset of applications that the user va...
Joshua M. Hailpern, Nicholas Jitkoff, Joseph Subid...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Open-ended objects: a tool for brainstorming
This paper describes a new tool for use in the process of brainstorming workshops on HCI called "Open-ended objects". Open-ended objects are open-ended interactive exper...
Virginia Cruz, Nicolas Gaudron
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Observing the mobile music phenomenon: one in nine commuters is wired
In this study we attempt to quantify the popularity of mobile music device utilization. We present an observational method to study music interaction in the wild and assess the re...
Lassi A. Liikkanen, Mikko Lahdensuo
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Investigating the relationship between imagery and rationale in design
Artifacts can be used to inspire, guide, and create new designs. As approaches to design can range from focusing on inspiration to formalized reasoning, we seek to create and stud...
Shahtab Wahid, Stacy M. Branham, D. Scott McCricka...
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
Heritage inquiries: a designerly approach to human values
This two-day workshop brings together the interdisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners involved in the design of interactive systems and sharing a common interest in ...
Elisa Giaccardi, Ole Sejer Iversen
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
14 years 24 days ago
A tale of two publics: democratizing design at the margins
The design and use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has now evolved beyond its workplace origins to the wider public, expanding to people who live at the margins ...
Christopher A. Le Dantec, Jim Christensen, Mark Ba...