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Theory Practice Workshop
Today was the deadline for CHI2019 workshop submissions. We submitted a proposal to host a workshop about the theory-practice discourse in HCI, and, as part of the writing process, we ginned up a website (here) and a Mendeley group (here) for communicating and sharing resources both amongst participants and with…
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Adobe Spark
This is my first time experimenting with Adobe Spark, and I foresee making lots of one-minute explainer videos for my spring semester human-centered design course.
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longer-term design thinking
I’m excited to be in Seattle for a workshop on long(er) term design thinking. You can read more about it here: http://hcd.icat.vt.edu/workshop-on-longer-term-design-thinking/. Some stellar designers and researchers are organizing the workshop. Batya Friedman, Will Odom, and Daisy Yoo. I’m here to share insights about research that we’re doing (at Penn…
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New Citation Analysis Journal Pub
Great news! We sent the final author proof of our article Schön’s Intellectual Legacy: A Citation Analysis of DRS Publications (2010-2016) back to the copyeditors for publication at Design Studies, which is one of the premier journals in the design field. The article should be online within a week or…
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Community Data & Water Quality
Most of my blog entries are announcements of publications or generic thought pieces about topics of interest. One thing I’d like to do differently going forward is keeping track of current research projects here at Penn State University’s Center for Human-Computer Interaction (C4HCI) as way of providing some insight and…
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Course Design
I’m really excited about an introductory HCI course I’m developing (with some amazing collaborators) for the spring semester. For the last week or so, I’ve been working with several practicing designers to establish a set of core skills interns and/or entry-level designers ought to know in order to succeed in…
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Writing/Thinking
This year was a good one for CHI rebuttal writing. I say that not knowing whether our rebuttal swayed any of the reviewers one way or another. But we took a different approach for this year’s CHI reviews than we have in year’s past. This year, we made changes to…
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Framing Time
In an earlier post, I discussed adolescence as a metaphor for HCI research. One thing that’s especially cool about this metaphor is the way it inspires thinking about time increments and their implications for knowledge growth. For instance, we might not expect a discipline “in its adolescence” to have a…
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Theory in Social Science
In Making Social Science Matter, Bent Flyvbjerg examines the possibility that “the study of social phenomena is not, never has been, and probably never can be, scientific in the conventional meaning of the word science; that is, in its epistemic meaning,” and he explains why other fields tend toward such…
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