Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute

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CSCW '21Sustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing

Being Regulated: Licence to Imagine New Technology for Community Radio

Licencing frameworks are embedded with sociotechnical imaginaries that limit the potential for networked technologies to make traditional media forms, like radio, more inclusive. We implemented a prototype platform that aims to enable more people to run small radio stations by using internet and mobile networks to avo…

DIS '21Community Engagement & Civic Technology +1

It’s Like a GPS Community Tool”: Tactics to Foster Digital Commons Through Artifact Ecology

Digital Commons have been widely studied in HCI and co-design literature as an alternative to technologies produced by capitalistic corporations. In this paper, we present an action-research process that facilitates the use of digital commons among a group of participants. The process core aspect is understanding our…

CHI '20Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +1

"Human, All Too Human": NOAA Weather Radio and the Emotional Impact of Synthetic Voices

The integration of text-to-speech into an open technology stack for low-power FM community radio stations is an opportunity to automate laborious processes and increase accessibility to information in remote communities. However, there are open questions as to the perceived contrast of synthetic voices with the local…

CHI '19Honorable Mention360° Video & Panoramic Content +1

"When the Elephant Trumps": A Comparative Study on Spatial Audio for Orientation in 360º Videos

Orientation is an emerging issue in cinematic Virtual Reality (VR), as viewers may fail in locating points of interest. Recent strategies to tackle this research problem have investigated the role of cues, specifically diegetic sound effects. In this paper, we examine the use of sound spatialization for orientation pu…

CHI '18Community Engagement & Civic Technology +2

Fostering Commonfare. Infrastructuring Autonomous Social Collaboration

Recently, HCI scholars have started questioning the relationship between computing and political economy, with both general analyses of such relationships, and specific design cases describing design interventions. This paper contributes to this stream of reflections, and argues that IT designers and HCI scholars can…

CHI '18Makerspace Culture +2

Maker Movements, Do-It-Yourself Cultures and Participatory Design: Implications for HCI Research.

Falling costs and the wider availability of computational components, platforms and ecosystems have enabled the expansion of maker movements and DIY cultures. This can be considered as a form of democratization of technology systems design, in alignment with the aims of Participatory Design approaches. However, this l…

CHI '18Community Engagement & Civic Technology +1

The Space of Possibilities: Political Economies of Technology Innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa

HCI researchers work within spaces of possibility for potential designs of technology. New methods (e.g., user centrism); expected types of interaction (user with device); and potential applications (urban navigation) can extend the boundaries of these possibilities. However, structural and systemic factors can also f…

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Research Methods & Design Practice

Participatory Design

Urban, Transportation & Social Computing

Community Engagement & Civic Technology

Voice Interaction & Conversational Systems

Intelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.)

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Technology Ethics & Critical HCI

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360° Video & Panoramic Content