This paper responds to sustainable HCI's call design long-term participatory projects with grassroots communities counter the local effects of climate change and support more viable practices. We contribute a methodological approach speculative as series interrelated experiments in living, working symbiosis food-growing community moving towards collective resilience food sovereignty. As an example sustainability research within HCI, has predominantly focused on collaborative acts growing...

In this study, we enhanced a problem-based learning (PBL) environment with affordable, everyday technologies that can be found in most university classrooms (e.g., projectors, tablets, students’ own smartphones, traditional paper–pencil, and Facebook). The study was conducted over 3-year period, 60 postgraduate learners human–computer interaction course, following PBL approach to teaching learning. First, article contributes detailed description of how enacted multimodal, technology-rich...

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused both significant disruption and catalysed extensive experimentation in how education been may be delivered worldwide. discipline of computing part this experimentation, innovations have implemented disseminated. Furthermore, educational provision learner expectations evolved response to the experiences during pandemic; whilst still subject disruption, higher many jurisdictions is returning a new (ab)normal. In UK, there return traditional face-to-face...

Journal Article Let'S Talk About Technology for Peace: A Systematic Assessment of Problem-Based Group Collaboration Around an Interactive Tabletop Get access Andri Ioannou, Ioannou * Department Multimedia and Graphic Arts, Cyprus University Technology, 94 Anexartisias street, Iakovides building, 2nd floor, 3040 Limassol, *Corresponding author: andri.ioannou@gmail.com; andri.i.ioannou@cut.ac.cy Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Panayiotis Zaphiris, Zaphiris...

There is steadily growing interest in the design and evaluation of digitally enhanced spaces real-world where users use, combine, appropriate different physical digital tools based on task at hand. Under notion “ubiquitous computing,” researchers have explored theories to analyze, understand, model complex socio-technical systems. Yet, even though theoretical approaches play a significant role work practitioners, there general difficulty applying them, pushing explore methodological...

Purpose This paper aims to report work regarding the design, development and evaluation of a surface computing application support collaborative decision making. The domain-independent application, so-called Ideas Mapping, builds on principle affinity diagramming allow participants analyze problem brainstorm around possible solutions, while they actively construct consensus artifact – taxonomy their ideas.

With the increasing availability of interactive tabletops, researchers and practitioners have opportunity to expand learning environment provide further support for collaboration reflective conversations around design problems. In this manuscript, we present IdeaSpace, a tabletop application designed collaborative as continuous process involving cycles redesign. IdeaSpace allows users work on shared project, load digital images sketches, annotate them using text audio, record messages take...

This article presents an overview of e-mentoring community platform that intends to promote women’s empowerment. Women face the so-called glass ceiling effect, barrier keeps them from rising upper rungs corporate ladder, regardless their qualifications or achievements. We aim eliminate stereotypical profile women as excluded economic, political, and professional life empowerment, equality, social coherence. To this aim, we aspire develop Womenpower, innovative link mentors mentees in areas...

We report on community food growing as an instance of practice-based sustainability research focused the design interactive systems for in future cities. present a case study with series workshops using speculative and participatory approaches creatively exploring futures urban local neighbourhood community. Working grassroots communities is often perceived more egalitarian promoting viable long-term embedded change cities, yet little work has studied this approach growing. To explore how we...

Tree-based model editors and hybrid graphical-textual have advantages limitations when editing domain models. Data is displayed hierarchically in tree-based editors, whereas capture high-level concepts graphically low-level details textually. We conducted an empirical user study with 22 participants, to evaluate the implicit assumption of system modellers that notations are superior, investigate tradeoffs between editors. The results indicate users largely prefer more confident for...

Researchers are increasingly exploring collaborative behaviour in complex socio-technical systems through in-the-wild investigations to understand, evaluate and technology. The space configuration tools available such activities crucial for the successful collaboration of a group. This work offers an examination six groups tackling design project working artifact ecology, rich physical digital artifacts. We delve into each during 3-month duration obtain understanding their activities. aim...

Educators have long researched student attention and how this influences learning, teaching assessment. Focusing on specifically impacts upon CS education, we present early work that constructs a deeper understanding of during learning activities, alongside co-designing set recommendations. We conducted an in-depth analysis perspectives experiences related to their in courses through diaries focus groups, working with students as partners recommendations for increasing engagement. The...