All Outputs (3)

Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wizards of Oz (2020)
Journal Article
Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., & Reeves, S. (2020). Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wizards of Oz. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4(CSCW3), Article 243. https://doi.org/10.1145/3432942

The Wizard of Oz method is an increasingly common practice in HCI and CSCW studies as part of iterative design processes for interactive systems. Instead of designing a fully-fledged system, the 'technical work' of key system components is completed... Read More about Pulling Back the Curtain on the Wizards of Oz.

Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nilsson, T., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Goulden, M., Spence, J., & Costanza, E. (2020). Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home. In DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (827–839). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395476

UbiComp has been envisioned to bring about a future dominated by calm computing technologies making our everyday lives ever more convenient. Yet the same vision has also attracted criticism for encouraging a solitary and passive lifestyle. The aim of... Read More about Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home.

Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Fischer, J. E., & Reeves, S. (2020). Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments. In CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1–13). https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376767

More than a billion people in the world live with some form of visual impairment, and a wide variety of technologies are now routinely used by them in the course of 'getting on' in everyday life. However, little is known about the ways in which assis... Read More about Reframing Disability as Competency: Unpacking Everyday Technology Practices of People with Visual Impairments.