HCI for peace

Abstract

understand and address the grievances that often lie at the heart of insurgencies."Despite the high cost of recent wars, we are fortunate to live in a time of relative peace. There hasn't been a war between major powers for more than 60 years, and the number of inter-and intrastate conflicts is at an all-time low. This gives us a great starting point to at least try to maintain armed conflict at this low level, if not reduce it even further.

Integrating human-robot and motion-based touchless interaction for children with intellectual disability

“…These tools exploit different learning paradigms and employ a gamut of "beyond the desktop" interaction modes and devices, including haptic controllers, (multi)touch small and large displays [3], digitally augmented physical objects, robots [4] and motion-sensing cameras [1]. Our research explores novel interactive solutions for children with intellectual disability and suffer of significant limitations both in intellectual functioning, i.e., general mental capacity such as memory, attention, reasoning and problem solving, and in adaptive behavior, i.e., social and practical skills related to daily living (interpersonal relationships.…”

HCI for peace ideathon

“…Armed conflicts are extremely costly both in terms of money and lives. As we mentioned in a recent article [3], the number of deaths as a direct result of war and doctrinal conflicts during the 20 th century was equivalent to two September 11 attacks every day for the entire century. In terms of monetary expenses, the amount of money directly spent by the United States in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars between September 11, 2001 and March of 2011 would have been enough to rebuild every primary and secondary school in the United States, something that could arguably be a 100year project.…”

PaxVis

“…Efforts to support peace in HCI focus on exploring peace data standards [7], guidelines for peacepromoting technologies [11,14] and recommendations to overcome challenges in peace research [13]. We contribute to these efforts with PaxVis, a data visualization facilitating large-scale peace agreement analysis.…”