Now it’s a bit of a monster, like HCI itself, it’s a Frankenstein made up of different domains, with no core competencies, and comes in at five-and-a-half hours long.
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Tag: Design
The phenomena surrounding interactive computing systems (1)
Recently, I have had a couple of experiences both as a consultant and as a user which have really brought into focus the idea of that major phenomena. Phenomena means experience: The experiences we have when we are designing/ using software.
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Bacon on Ice-cream: McDonald’s drive-thru AI
One story which stands out in and amongst the hype is, how fast-food chain McDonald’s withdrew its AI from the drive-thru. In this talk I will explore exactly what happened.
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Fighting, typing, and computing
Little did I know that my journey from secretarial training to computer scientist was the classic one women had been
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When women were computers
The first computers were women. They were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work – lowly paid
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