[Petit Fours #405] On urban interaction, luck, and publication venues
Hi, everyone! Here’s what I’ve got for you today, from amidst amazing autumn colors and shortening days:
#1 At the end of this month, Wendy Ju will be giving a seminar, entitled If we can make it there: Notes on urban interaction, at Digital Futures (in Stockholm and online). Here’s the abstract: “Human Computer Interaction is increasingly engaged with the social-cultural context that people live in everyday. The city, in all its grit and glory, provides a complex and rich context in which to understand the challenges technologies face when they are adopted by people in the real world. In this presentation, I discuss three on-going research initiatives from my group at Cornell Tech in New York City which grapple with interaction in the urban context: Trashbots in the City, Urban Fingerprinting, and Communal eXtended Reality. These projects highlight different aspects of urban interaction–culture, scale, engagement–which demand new approaches from researchers and practitioners in HCI. In this talk, I will also champion the perspectives that HCI brings to the already crowded urban landscape.”
#2 The conference program for CSCW 2024 is now online. I’ll be presenting our paper Who Should Act? Distancing and Vulnerability in Technology Practitioners’ Accounts of Ethical Responsibility, first-authored by Kristina Popova, on Tuesday afternoon in the Navigating AI Ethical Challenges session.
#3 Luigina Ciolfi has done us all a favor and published her helpful resource on finding well-suited publication venues: Choosing an Academic Publication Venue: A Short Guide for Beginners
#4 Academics often talk about luck, and this column by Jonatan Nästesjö includes some interesting thoughts on how to make sense of that: Vad betyder egentligen tur i akademin?
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