In a recent paper, initially more out of necessity than as a design choice, I hand-drew the data visualisations. Turns out the reviewers were huge fans, so I kept them. Here are the resulting images for your perusal. And maybe…
Questions for Conversations on Embodied Computing
I was invited to a ‘Dialogical Space’ at the University of Twente and instead of holding a talk, I started a conversation with attendees. I’ll leave a link to the slides here so you can explore some of those questions…
Bodies in Embodied Computing
Just a quick entry this time to announce that the paper investigating which bodies are included or excluded in Embodied Interaction research at TEI (Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction). The article is open access and available for your perusal at…
Hitting Pause
Due to a second hard lockdown in Austria and, before that, quarantine requirements of a family members, I had to suddenly hit pause and take out the speed of my work. As one of the things I understood doing so…
How I’m reading
I had the privilege to allude to what I am reading and it became a text that looks very closely at the question and ultimately does not really answer the ‘what’ inasmuch as it answers a ‘how’. If that makes…
Ongoing Public Lecture Series
As you might have noticed already, we have organised a public lecture series on ‘Critical Perspectives on Technology’. The first session is already past us, in which Roos Hopman talked about “The face as folded object: race and the problems…
New Paper! Learning about Gender
Lead by Sabrina Burtscher, we presented our paper “But Where Do I Even Start?: Developing (Gender) Sensitivity in HCI Research and Practice” at Mensch und Computer 2020, where it also received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award. The paper takes…
Marginalised Bodies in Health
Last week, a paper that took a lot of writing, revising, editing, reviewing, discussing, and conversations to get published finally was made available. The collaboration between Os Keyes, Burren Peil, Rua Williams and me is titled Reimagining (Women’s) Health: HCI,…
Why Critical Theory?
Drawing on the original proposal, this week I’ll just briefly provide a very short introduction into how Critical Theory is relevant to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in general and through that for this project in particular. Unlike before, I have put…
Feminist Content Analysis
I take pride in my method descriptions, which doesn’t mean they’re always perfect, but I try. Currently, I am fully immersed in conducting another critical literature review and before I started even assembling the corpus, I wrote down extensive notes…