A focus of human-computer interaction work and a central principle of user experience is that design should avoid discomfort and aim to craft positive experiences for individuals. However, for contexts in which an uncomfortable reaction is intended, instrumental, or indeed inevitable, we recognize that it is inappropriate to design for a positive or "feel good" experience. Herein we describe an investigation into the use of interactive technologies to support transformative learning, a process through which individuals engage with feelings of discomfort. The project is grounded by work with graduate students enrolled in a course that employed decolonizing pedagogies. Throughout the course students responded to uncomfortable, problematic scenarios through interactive tools. We present our analysis of students' learning experiences, their interactions with technologies and their reflections on the effectiveness of these engagements in terms of supporting opportunities for critical reflection, a crucial stage of the transformative learning process.

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Our research seeks to explore how technologies, their affordances, and related practices support transformative learning, a process through which individuals engage with feelings of discomfort and other negative emotions. During fall of 2013 the second author worked with graduate students in a course that employed decolonizing pedagogies. Throughout the course the students experienced, reflected upon and evaluated our efforts to encourage critical reflection, a crucial stage of the transformative learning process. They used a suite of tools that support different types of interaction, making for unique learning experiences because of their variation on private-public, individualistic-collective, and rhetorical-discursive continuums. Through this work we argue for continued expansion of how 'user experience' is conceptualized within HCI, encouraging initiatives that address multifaceted dimensions of the human experience.

This paper examines the history of clinical librarianship in Canada from 1970 to 2013 as seen through the lens of practitioner narratives and published literature. While no reviews of clinical librarianship in Canada were found in the literature search, there were many project descriptions in articles and published reports that have provided insight into the field during its formative period in Canada from the 1970s. In addition to tracing narrative histories from 1970 to 2013, the author has continued to wonder why these important stories have never properly been told. Was it because the scope of clinical librarianship, its expected and embodied professional duties, was not regulated (as it is in the United States and United Kingdom)? Is it because the American Library Association accredited library schools in Canada do not offer appropriate curricula and professional training? It seems clear that some librarians in Canada were pioneers in the way that Gertrude Lamb was in the United States, but they did not call themselves clinical librarians. Consequently, they opted for more generic job titles such as medical librarian and health librarian. Whatever the reasons for this, it is within this framework that the author begins an exploration of clinical librarianship in Canada. The paper's aim is to provide a view into clinical librarianship in Canada back to the 1970s to ensure the story is properly told.

Information interaction with mobile devices is becoming increasingly common, and is often an everyday method of information search for many users. This research will investigate the system, user, and contextual variables that predict user engagement with mobile search and examine the general engagement model in the more specific mobile context.L'interaction entre l'information et les appareils mobiles est de plus en plus commune, voire une méthode de recherche d'information quotidienne pour de nombreux utilisateurs. Cette étude s'intéresse au système, à l'etilisateur et aux variables contextuelles qui prédisent l'engagement de l'utilisateur lors de la recherche sur appareils mobiles et examine les modèles d'engagement généraux dans le context plus précis des appareils mobiles.