This document outlines the steps for a class participation exercise on the topic of human-computer interaction for digital civics. It instructs students to: 1) Spend 20 minutes in reading groups discussing their individual readings and reviews of the assigned paper. 2) Create a visual diagram summarizing the main points of their assigned paper on "involving people in design." 3) Add their individual paper readings to the diagram and prepare a 5 minute presentation summarizing their work. It also assigns groups and papers for the following week's discussion and tasks students to read their assigned paper, identify another relevant paper, and write a review.

1. Human-Computer Interaction
for Digital Civics
Week 3: Participation
John Vines john.vines@ncl.ac.uk

2. Step 1:
Share commentaries
Find your set-reading group
Group 1: Nataly, Dan R, Janis, Aseel
Group 2: Colin, Delvin, Taghreed, Aare
Group 3: Reem, Stuart, Eujin, Dan H
Group 4: Jay, Helen, Jen, Zeinab
Spend 20 minutes taking it in turns to talk about your individual
readings and reviews of the paper:
• What was surprising?
• What was interesting?
• What did you learn?
• What do you need to find out more about?

3. Step 2:
“Diagramise” your set reading
Make a visual diagram, chart, map, plot of your “set” paper
…
Draw this out on a sheet of paper
Focus on the issue of “involving people in design”
Try to characterize the main points or messages of the paper

12. Step 3:
Add your individual papers
Map or plot or locate your individual papers (those you found) onto
the diagram you have just created
(if they don’t seem to fit, make them fit, or change the diagram)
…
Prepare a 5 minute summary presentation of your work!
Be prepared to give your presentation back here at 1220
As always, make sure you share the talking!

13. Before next week
Groups for next week
Group 1: Dan R, Taghreed, Dan H, Jay
Paper: Yesterday’s Tomorrow
Group 2: Janis, Aare, Zeinab, Helen
Paper: What next, UbiComp?
Group 3: Colin, Stuart, Jen, Nataly
Paper: Moving on from Weiser’s vision of Calm Computing
Group 4: Delvin, Eujin, Reem
Paper: Identity Crisis of Ubicomp?

14. Before next week
1. read your set paper …
2. identify one paper from one of the conference or
journals listed in the ‘resources’ section of the website
that discusses an example of a “ubiquitous
computing technology.
Use your reading to think carefully about whether
what you chooses is “UbiComp” or not and be
prepared to explain your choice!
3. write the usual short review of your set paper – and
tell us what other paper you have identified.