Writing Archive

Journal Club 7th May 2010 – Fear and Risk Perception

We had a very lively and productive journal club this week, based on a provocative paper from CHI2010. The main paper under discussion was Fear and the City – Role of mobile services in Harnessing Safety and Security in Urban Use Contexts, from Jan Blom et al at Nokia research. We also discussed some related [...]

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Journal Club 30th April – HCI for sustainability

This Friday’s meeting followed on from the heated debate at the sustainable HCI sessions and papers at CHI 2010. The two main papers we discussed were based on the future of sustainable HCI available here and the design of eco-feedback technology available here. During our discussion of sustainable HCI and energy consumption the general sentiment [...]

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CHI 2010 debriefing

Despite Volcanoes, alleged arrests at the airport and shooting incidents, we have made it back safe from CHI2010, which was recently held in Atlanta. The conference itself was of its usual excellent standard and was a fantastic opportunity to meet similarly minded people. Over the course of four days we presented one short paper (here), [...]

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