Slides for Week 1 of the HCI for Digital Civics module.

1. Human-Computer Interaction
for Digital Civics
Week 1: What’s this thing called HCI?
John Vines john.vines@ncl.ac.uk

2. What is HCI?

11. HCI’s already done
that and got over it mate

12. HCI’s already done
that and got over it mate

16. #benefitsstreet

17. OK, then, so … what is HCI?
Computer Science
Engineering
Design
Cognitive Psychology
Social Science
Informatics
Social Psychology
Arts Practice
Sociology
Philosophy
a hybridity of disciplines, and historically in the UK there is
very little ”formal” teaching in “HCI”

18. 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

19. This module: Explore this diversity
Module website:
http://di.ncl.ac.uk/digitalcivics2014/

20. 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

21. 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

22. 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?

23. 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)

24. Some places to read up…
http://dl.acm.org/
ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
Interaction Design and Children (IDC)
Participatory Design Conference (PDC)

25. 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

26. Some places to read up…
Computer Supported Cooperative Work
CoDesign
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
International Journal of Design
Design Studies
Design Issues

27. 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