Expanding and Refining Design and Criticality in HCI

Pierce, James; Sengers, Phoebe; Hirsch, Tad; Jenkins, Tom; Gaver, William; DiSalvo, Carl

doi:10.1145/2702123.2702438

Cited by 103 publications

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“…Our study also speaks to a growing HCI discourse on Research through Design (RtD), using the material language of design as a form of generative, practice-based inquiry [20] that may invite critical reflection [52]. Kinds of design research artifacts in HCI [51] include technology probes [29], operational prototypes [51], provotypes [12], and most recently research products [44].…”

Section: Research Through Design For Self-reflectionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Durrant

Kirk

Pisanty

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We present findings from a qualitative study about how Internet use supports self-functioning following the life transition of retirement from work. This study recruited six recent retirees and included the deployment of OnLines, a design research artifact that logged and visualized key online services used by participants at home over four-weeks. The deployment was supported by pre-and post-deployment interviews. OnLines prompted participants' reflection on their patterns of Internet use. Position Exchange Theory was used to understand retirees' sense making from a lifespan perspective, informing the design of supportive online services. This paper delivers a three-fold contribution to the field of human-computer interaction, advancing a lifespanoriented approach by conceptualizing the self as a dialogical phenomenon that develops over time, advancing the ageing discourse by reporting on retirees' complex identities in the context of their life histories, and advancing discourse on research through design by developing OnLines to foster participant-researcher reflection informed by Self Psychology.

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Section: Research Through Design For Self-reflectionmentioning

confidence: 95%

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Durrant

Kirk

Pisanty

et al. 2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…A largely separate line of design research under the broad rubric of speculative and critical design serves to surface values, critique social issues, and present alternative visions of the future by creating conceptual designs and design artifacts [17,51]. The artifacts created in these processes are considered "research products" rather than "prototypes"-that is, they are valued as they exist now, rather than representing an incomplete design still in product development [48].…”

Section: Eliciting Values Reflections In Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet these are largely authorial practices [51], focusing on the values that designers and design researchers surface, critique, and envision. Our work suggests that these design artifacts can be used to elicit values reflections among other populations who are not the designers.…”

Section: Eliciting Values Reflections In Designmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks

Wong

Mulligan

Wyk

et al. 2017

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Although "privacy by design" (PBD)-embedding privacy protections into products during design, rather than retroactively-uses the term "design" to recognize how technical design choices implement and settle policy, design approaches and methodologies are largely absent from PBD conversations. Critical, speculative, and value-centered design approaches can be used to elicit reflections on relevant social values early in product development, and are a natural fit for PBD and necessary to achieve PBD's goal. Bringing these together, we present a case study using a design workbook of speculative design fictions as a values elicitation tool. Originally used as a reflective tool among a research group, we transformed the workbook into artifacts to share as values elicitation tools in interviews with graduate students training as future technology professionals. We discuss how these design artifacts surface contextual, socially-oriented understandings of privacy, and their potential utility in relationship to other values levers.

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“…[59]. For example there have been heated debates about (mis)use of methods from ethnography [15] and design research [24,56] within HCI, and about whether HCI research needs to become more 'scientific' by focusing on replicating existing results [28].…”

Section: Hci Must Promote a Culture Of Respect For Other Fieldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

Marshall

Linehan

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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HCI often requires scholars to build upon research from fields outside their expertise, creating the risk that foundational work is misunderstood and misrepresented. The prevailing goal of "exergames" research towards ameliorating obesity appears to be built on just such a misunderstanding of health research. In this paper, we analyse all citations to a single influential study, which has been extensively cited to justify research on exergames. We categorise the 375 citations based on whether they represent the findings of that study accurately or inaccurately. Our findings suggest that 69% of exergames papers citing this study misrepresent the findings, demonstrating a systematic failure of scholarship in exergames research. We argue that exergaming research should cease focusing on games as treatment for obesity, and that HCI publications should demand more critical and scholarly engagement with research from outside HCI.

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Expanding and Refining Design and Criticality in HCI

Cited by 103 publications

References 34 publications

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Transitions in Digital Personhood

Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks

Misrepresentation of Health Research in Exertion Games Literature

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