Human-Computer Interaction

for Digital Civics

Week 1: What’s this thing called HCI?

John Vines john.vines@ncl.ac.uk

What is HCI?

HCI’s already done

that and got over it mate

HCI’s already done

that and got over it mate

#benefitsstreet

OK, then, so … what is HCI?

a hybridity of disciplines, and historically in the UK there is

very little ”formal” teaching in “HCI”

Computer Science

Engineering

Design

Cognitive Psychology

Social Science

Informatics

Social Psychology

Arts Practice

Sociology

Philosophy

This module: Explore this diversity

10 Seminars (like this)

Group learning activities

Reading of foundational HCI papers between each seminar

Reflective and critical writing in-between

This module: Explore this diversity

Module website:

http://di.ncl.ac.uk/digitalcivics2014/

Assignments

A set of ‘public’ blog commentaries each week

Develop four of these commentaries for submission as an

assignment at end of module (up to 4000 words)

– January 2015

A 10 minute presentation to us all at the very end

– January 2015

Lots of reading

You may read for … sheer pleasure

… to figure out a simple idea

… to gain specific technical information

… or, as in this case, to learn a new subject

Close Reading (20 minutes or so)

read the ‘Out There’ paper (slowly)

highlight ‘key’ parts and annotate the text

what is the most important idea in each paragraph?

how are ideas and other work referred to and connected?

Can you relate ideas to something else you already understand, or

can these ideas influence your thinking?

Some places to read up…

http://dl.acm.org/

ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

ACM Conference on Computer-Supported

Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW)

ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive

and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)

Some places to read up…

ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)

Interaction Design and Children (IDC)

Participatory Design Conference (PDC)

http://dl.acm.org/

Some places to read up…

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)

Human-Computer Interaction

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction

Interacting with Computers

Computers in Human Behaviour

Some places to read up…

Computer Supported Cooperative Work

CoDesign

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

International Journal of Design

Design Studies

Design Issues

Before next week

between now and the next seminar, read the John

Carroll paper

identify related papers that would be useful to read

(and maybe read them of you want to)

by the end of Thursday, write a short (more than 300

words, less than 500) reflective commentary on what

you have learnt about the origins of HCI based on the

activity today and the paper(s) you read – post this as

a comment on the ‘week 1’ page on the module

website