INFO 651 : Schedule

Topic

Readings

Classes

Introduction

Introduction to course

Core Readings
Selection A
Selection B
Related Readings

Aug 24
Read and discuss Weiser's Coming Age of Calm Technology

What is a critical technical practice?

Core Readings	Agre: Toward a Critical Technical Practice Dourish: Where the Action Is, excerpt from Preface, pp. vii-ix Sengers et al.: Reflective Design Wilson: Art and Science as Cultural Acts
Selection A	Mitchell et al., eds.: The Influence of Art and Design on Computer Science Research and Development
Selection B	Grudin: Three Faces of Human-Computer Interaction
Related Readings	Søren Pold: The Critical Interface Boehner et al: Critical Technical Practice as a Methodology for Values in Design Agre: Computation and Human Experience

Aug 29
What is a critical technical practice?

Aug 31
Unpack the relationship of arts, critique, and HCI

Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing

Introduction to Ubicomp

Core Readings	Dourish, Where the Action Is, "A History of Interaction", pp. 1-23 Weiser: The Computer for the 21st Century Abowd and Mynatt: Charting Past, Present and Future Research in Ubiquitous Computing Thackera: Design Challenge of Pervasive Computing
Selection A	Want et al.: Bridging Physical and Virtual Worlds with Electronic Tags Davies and Gellersen: Beyond Prototypes
Selection B	da Costa: PigeonBlog (explore site) Dobson: Blendie Hirsch / Institute for Applied Autonomy: iSee Preemptive Media: Zapped! (explore site)
Related Readings	Edwards and Grinter: At Home with Ubiquitous Computing Burrell et al.: Context-Aware Computing Schienke: On the Outside Looking Out Mann et al: Living as Cyborgs

Sep 5
The world of ubiquitous devices

Sep 7
Unpacking technical and social issues with ubicomp

Viewing Ubicomp Through Architecture

Core Readings	McCullough: Digital Ground, Chapters 1, 4, 5, 7
Selection A	Rodden and Benford: The evolution of buildings and implications for the design of ubiquitous domestic environments
Selection B	Sepulveda-Sandoval: Digital Shelters
Related Readings	Harrison and Dourish: Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in Collaborative Systems

Sep 12
Analyzing Digital Ground

Sep 14
What does an influence from architecture look like in ubicomp?

Critical Design

Core Readings	Dunne and Raby: Design Noir
Selection A	Gaver and Martin: Alternatives
Selection B	Wodiczko: Interrogative Design
Related Readings	Paulos and Beckmann: Sashay

Sep 19
Using design to critique design

Sep 21
Building on critical design

Critically- Informed Design in HCI

Core Readings	Gaver et al: Presence Project
Selection A	Hutchinson et al: Technology Probes
Selection B	Paulos and Jenkins: Urban Probes
Related Readings	Gaver and Dunne: Projected Realities Gaver, Dunne, Pacenti: Cultural Probes Gaver et al.: Cultural probes and the value of uncertainty

Sep 26
Bringing critical design into HCI

Sep 28
Analyzing the uptake of critical design in HCI

Paper proposal workshop

Homework: Short paper proposals due.

Interlude: Thinking About Critical Intervention

Mapping Critical Intervention

Core Readings	The Interventionists
Selection A	Hallnas and Redström: Slow Technology
Selection B	Ball: The Great Sideshow of the Situationist International
Related Readings	Krzysztof Wodiczko: Dis-Armor Garabet et al: Exploring design through wearable computing art(ifacts) Lundberg et al: The Snatcher Catcher

Oct 3
Cataloguing strategies of intervention

Homework: Select any one project from The Interventionists to research in more detail. Come to class prepared to describe in about 5 minutes the project and the critical strategy it pursues.

Oct 5
Exploring models for intervention

Embodied Interaction

Let's Get Physical

Core Readings	Ishii and Ullmer: Tangible Bits Dourish: Where the Action Is, Chapter 2: Getting In Touch (25-53) Klemmer et al.: How Bodies Matter
Selection A
Selection B
Related Readings	Penny et al: Traces: Embodied Immersive Interaction with Semi-Autonomous Avatars Penny: Virtual Reality as the End of the Enlightenment Project Fitzmaurice et al: Bricks

Oct 12
What changes when we put our bodies at the center?

Social Computing

Core Readings	Dourish: Where the Action Is, Social Computing (pp. 55-97)
Selection A	Chalmers et al.: Social Navigation and Seamful Design
Selection B	Benford et al.: Designing for the Opportunities and Risks of Staging Digital Experiences in Public Settings Hirsch and Henry: TXTMob
Related Readings	Paulos and Goodman: The Familiar Stranger

Oct 17
Defining social computing

Homework: Short papers due

Oct 19
Thinking about desgining for social contexts

Final projects brainstorming

Embodied Interaction

Core Readings	Dourish: Where the Action Is, Chapters 4-6 (pp. 99-188)
Selection A	Chalmers and Galani: Seamful Interweaving
Selection B	Thomsen: Embodied Interfaces and Mixed Realities
Related Readings	Novak and Thomsen: drawing spaces

Oct 24
Putting it together: social + tangible = embodied interaction

Oct 26
How embodied interaction might change our ideas of computing

Final projects workshop

Homework: Filled-in final project idea forms

Co-Interpreting Experience

Participatory Design as Critical Intervention

Core Readings	Boedker et al: Computer support for cooperative design Mogensen: Towards a Provotyping Approach in Systems Development Asaro: Transforming society by transforming technology
Selection A	Iversen, Kanstrup, Graves Petersen: A visit to the 'new Utopia' Brandt: Designing Exploratory Design Games
Selection B	Kac: Negotiating Meaning
Related Readings	Beck: On participatory design in Scandinavian computing research Hansen: Contemplative interaction Wu et al: Participatory design with individual who have amnesia

Oct 31
The critical potential of participatory design

Nov 2
What does PD look like today?

Homework: Written proposals for final project

Affective Presence

Core Readings	Boehner et al.: How Emotion Is Made and Measured Sundström et al.: eMoto Romero et al.: Tableau Machine
Selection A	Picard: Towards Computers that Recognize and Respond to User Emotion
Selection B	Dror: Counting the Affects
Related Readings	Lindström et al.: Affective Diary Sengers et al: The Enigmatics of Affect Isbister et al.: Sensual Evaluation Instrument Gaver: Provocative Awareness Wright and McCarthy: Technology as Experience

Nov 7
What is affective presence?

Nov 9
Dealing with the ineffability of affect

Co-Interpreting Experience

Core Readings	Gaver et al: Ambiguity as a Resource for Design Aoki and Woodruff: Making Space for Stories Boehner and Hancock: Advancing Ambiguity Sengers and Gaver: Staying Open to Interpretation
Selection A	Lederer and Heer: All together now Bossen and Dalsgaard: Conceptualization and appropriation
Selection B	Kline and Pinch: Users as Agents of Technological Change
Related Readings	Raijmakers et al.: Design Documentaries Dourish: The Appropriation of Interactive Technologies Kaye et al: Communicating Intimacy One Bit at a Time Redström: Towards user design? Gross and Do: Ambiguous Intentions Wyatt: Non-Users Also Matter (from: Oudshoorn and Pinch, Why Users Matter, on reserve) Ascott: Towards a Field Theory for Post-Modernist Art Pinch and Bijker: The Social Construction of Facts and Artifacts

Nov 14
Designing for open interpretation

Nov 16
(How) does it make sense to design for appropriation, given that people appropriate anyway?

Final projects workshop

Conclusion

Project Workshop

Core Readings
Selection A
Selection B
Related Readings

Nov 21

Homework: Together with your project team, prepare an oral presentation of your project to explain your thinking and results so far to the class.

Project Workshop / Wrap-up

Core Readings	Ehn: Manifesto for a Digital Bauhaus
Selection A
Selection B
Related Readings	Harrison et al.: "It's Just a Method!": a pedagogical experiment in interdisciplinary design

Nov 28
Oral presentations

Nov 30
Oral presentations / Where to from here?

Dec 11: Final Projects Due

Dec 15: End-of-semester Party (Optional)