Slides for Week 5 of the HCI for Digital Civics module.

1. Human-Computer Interaction
for Digital Civics
Week 6: Social Computing
John Vines john.vines@ncl.ac.uk

3. POST-IT GENERATION!:
Social Computing
15 minutes
Yellow post-it:
Tell us what social computing is
Pink post-it:
Tell us examples of how social computing has
impacted on a specific group of users / citizens
Orange post-it:
Tell us a positive
Blue post-it:
Tell us a negative

4. POST-IT ANNOTATION!:
Social Computing
15 minutes
Swap tables with another group
(leave your sheets behind!)
Green pen: Add a note about how it relates to your groups
discussion
Red pen: Add a note if there is a difference of opinion (based
on the papers your group read)
Blue pen: Add a note where you need to find out more

5. POST-IT CLUSTERING!:
Social Computing
15 minutes
Combine with the group that is reading your first
sheet
Work as one team to cluster the two groups of
post-its together – you can add more as you go
along.
Think about themes ‘beyond the obvious’ – but be
prepared to explain why you have grouped stuff
together in a logical fashion!

6. (MORE) POST-IT ANNOTATING!:
Social Computing
15 minutes
Swap tables with the other big group
Green pen: Add a note about how it relates to your
groups discussion
Red pen: Add a note if there is a difference of
opinion (based on the papers your group read)
Blue pen: Add a note which gives more detail to a
point

7. Before next week
Group 1
Ian
Marshall
Angelika
Group 3
Mohammed
Matt
Jan
Group 2
Alexander
Andy
Sunil
Group 4
Emma
Nikolai
Vidya

8. Before next week
Usual – everyone read the Experience-Centered Design
chapter, then choose a further paper each in the group
Write your commentary thinking about one of the following:
• Theories or frameworks for understanding and talking
about human experience;
• Ways of putting theory into practice (tools, methods, etc.);
• Methods for analyzing and evaluating people’s
experience of technology.
Continue to make comments on each others posts – keep up
the discussion and dialogue acting as ‘critical friends’