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Shifting Power Through Resistance: Social Justice in Practice
By Cella M. Sum, Alicia DeVrio, June 2024
Articles Tagged: Human-centered computing
Articles & Features
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Anti-Caste Lessons for Computing: Educate, Agitate, Organize
South Asian caste systems are one of the many forms of historical, social hierarchies like race, gender, sexuality, and disability that shape the worlds of technology and media. The experiences of Dalits in hyper-Brahmanical spaces show how caste needs to be navigated in worlds of technology.
By Divyanshu Kumar Singh, Palashi Vaghela, June 2024
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Social Robots That Promote Soft Skills in Students
Social robots are coming to classrooms, but they can do more than teach new content. They can implement validated pedagogy to promote soft skills such as curiosity, growth mindset, and collaboration.
By Goren Gordon, October 2023
Child-Robot Interaction in Healthcare: Opportunities, Challenges, and Resolutions
Robots are increasingly permeating the healthcare system, but limited studies exist in the field of child-robot interaction in healthcare.
By Iroju Olaronke, October 2023
Understanding Our Robots With the Help of Human-Centered Explainable AI
Insights from the field of human factors can help us design human-centered explanations that enable effective human-robot interaction. Studying explanation techniques according to these human factors will be critical in understanding their efficacy across diverse contexts.
By Lindsay Sanneman, October 2023
SECTION: Profile
Lessons from Ph.D. Fieldwork: A Conversation with Dr. Azra Ismail
By Vishal Sharma, Azra Ismail, October 2023
SECTION: Features
Addressing the root of vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic
As pressure continues to mount on social media platforms to address the spread of vaccine misinformation, we aim to look at solutions to the rise in vaccine hesitancy. But to truly address vaccine misinformation and hesitancy, we need to address the underlying issues with trust in large institutions and inequity in healthcare.
By Kolina Koltai, Rachel E. Moran, Izzi Grasso, January 2022
SECTION: Features
Designing technology that promotes users' digital wellbeing
Existing tools for digital self-control strongly rely on users' self-regulation strategies and capabilities. Recent work, however, highlights the importance of proactively assisting users in learning how to use technology through customizable and adaptable interventions.
By Alberto Monge Roffarello, Luigi De Russis, September 2021
Sleep, health, productivity, and the double-edged sword of technology
While technology has traditionally impaired sleep, it also has the potential to enable and reframe sleep as a productivity and health booster.
By Stephen M. Mattingly, September 2021
Integrating people-centered and planet-centered design
Exploring the many approaches and issues involved in developing technologies for wellbeing---from including environmental concerns to building long-lasting, transdisciplinary partnerships both inside and beyond the academy.
By Xuhai Xu, September 2021
Assessing the mental health of college students by leveraging social media data
The mental health of college students is a growing concern and gauging the mental health needs of this group is difficult to assess in real-time and in scale. The ubiquity and widespread use of social media, particularly among young adults, provides opportunities for various stakeholders to proactively assess the mental health of college students and provide timely and tailored support.
By Koustuv Saha, Munmun De Choudhury, September 2021
Making with a sustainable purpose
This interview presents insights into Dr. Mauriello's research projects in user-centered design to promote energy literacy within residential households.
By Jiayi Li, Karan Ahuja, June 2021
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Can developers make communication software more usable for at-risk users they are never likely to meet?
By Mariel García-Montes, July 2020
Decolonizing design through the perspectives of cosmological others: Arguing for an ontological turn in design research and practice
A closer attention to cultural and cosmological difference as the basis for thinking about how we redesign our own modern technological infrastructures may be the way to decolonize design research.
By Ahmed Ansari, November 2019
How technology converses with local languages
The relationship between technology and language use is situated in social and historical factors. Considering the meaning of language use in technology design is essential for supporting diverse language preferences.
By Naveena Karusala, November 2019
Protibadi: Starting the fight against sexual abuse
The story of how a group of Bangladeshi volunteers used technology to address the country's sexual abuse problem.
By Nova Ahmed, November 2019
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Computer science and sports: The digital evolution of physical competition
By Patrick Carrington, Eliezer Bernart, July 2019
SECTION: Features
Explaining explainable AI
How good are you at explaining your decisions? Are you better than a machine? Today, AI systems are being asked to explain their decisions. This article explores the challenges in solving this problem and approaches researchers are pursuing.
By Michael Hind, April 2019
SECTION: Features
Reflecting on robots, love, and poetry
Finding the poetry in programming and the algorithms in poems
By Margaret Rhee, December 2017
"We had tough times, but we've sort of sewn our way through it: the partnership quilt
Using capacitive touch sensors and traditional quilting techniques lead to the collision of seemingly disparate worlds and resulted in the creation of the Partnership Quilt, a living archive of voices in the shape of an interactive piece of craftwork.
By Angelika Strohmayer, Janis Meissner, December 2017
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
Positive computing: a novel research field to promote human well-being
After decades of remarkable leaps and bounds, is technology really helping to increase society's well-being?
By Gustavo Fortes Tondello, June 2017
SECTION: Features
A brief introduction to decolonial computing
Does computing need to be decolonized, and if so, how should such decolonization be effected? This short essay introduces a recent proposal at the fringes of computing, which attempts to engage these and other related questions.
By Syed Mustafa Ali, June 2016
Soft printing with fabric
3-D printed objects made of fabric could be flexible and deformable, bringing possibilities to new sensors and actuators.
By Huaishu Peng, Scott Hudson, Jennifer Mankoff, James McCann, April 2016
DEPARTMENT: Blogs
The curious case of a sick google glass
The XRDS blog highlights a range of topics from security and privacy to neuroscience. Selected blog posts, edited for print, will be featured in every issue. Please visit xrds.acm.org/blog to read each post in its entirety.
By Wolfgang Richter, June 2014
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Information technology and international development
By Shikoh Gitau, Nithya Sambasivan, December 2012
SECTION: Features
Crime prevention technologies in low-income communities
Using collaborative technology as a grassroots effort to reduce violent crime in Chicago.
By Sheena Lewis Erete, December 2012
ICTD at the University of California Berkeley
Several leading researchers from UC Berkeley share their personal research stories, opinions about the field, and advice for students interested in ICTD.
By Nithya Sambasivan, December 2012
A social scientist sits among ICTD workers
Reflections on the place of qualitative methods in ICTD work.
By Sumitra Nair, December 2012
Voices in ICT for development
Researchers from around the world tell us about their personal and institutional efforts in international development.
By Nithya Sambasivan, December 2012
Lessons and opportunities in ICT4D
If ICT4D aims to effectively answer the grand challenges it faces, young researchers, in both design and computer science, must be aware of the consequences of how terminology frames this field, be willing to critique and adjust research methods and attend to neglected, challenging concepts.
By Samantha Merritt, December 2012
Facing the African ICTD academic divide
This article stitches together the current journey of ICTD researchers based in Africa who formed a virtual network, which hopes to contribute toward the enhancement of representation within the academic ICTD community.
By Kathleen Diga, December 2012
Matthew Kam: Technology, impact and development
By Ryan Kelly, December 2012
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Behold a pail of milk
By Malay Bhattacharyya, Vaggelis Giannikas, March 2011
SECTION: Features
The 'Internet of Things' and commerce
Everything, everywhere, tagged and tracked. How can this data be harnessed to deliver better products and services?
By Mark Harrison, March 2011
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, March 2009
HCI and theology
By Steve Clough, March 2009
AmazonViz
This article describes a technique to visualize query results, representing purchase orders placed on Amazon.com, along a traditional 2-D scatter plot and a space-filling spiral. We integrate 3-D objects that vary their spatial placement, color, and texture properties into a visualization algorithm. This algorithm represents important aspects of a purchase order based on experimental results from human vision, computer graphics, and psychology. The resulting visual abstractions are used by viewers to rapidly and effectively explore and analyze the underlying purchase orders data.
By Amit Prakash Sawant, Christopher G. Healey, Dongfeng Chen, Rada Chirkova, March 2009
Modding
By Caio Camargo, March 2009
Introduction
By Justin Solomon, December 2007
At a crossroads
By Paula Bach, Chris Jordon, December 2006