DIY, hacking, and craft have recently drawn attention in HCI and CSCW, largely as a
collaborative and creative hobbyist practice. We shift the focus from the recreational …

The term'participation'is traditionally used in HCI to describe the involvement of users and
stakeholders in design processes, with a pretext of distributing control to participants to …

Speculative Enactments are a novel approach to speculative design research with
participants. They invite the empirical analysis of participants acting amidst speculative but …

Speculative and fictional approaches have long been implemented in human-computer
interaction and design techniques through scenarios, prototypes, forecasting, and …

Communities of making have been at the center of attention in popular, business, political,
and academic research circles in recent years. In HCI, they seem to carry the promise of new …

What kind of stories and plots do researchers of Human Computer Interaction draw on when
they make fictions? This paper applies the" basic plots" identified in the study of literature to …

Design fiction is an emergent field within HCI and interaction design the understanding of
which ultimately relies, so we argue, of an integrative account of poetics and design praxis …

We examine the recent move from a rhetoric of “users” toward one of “makers,”“crafters,” and
“hackers” within HCI discourse. Through our analysis, we make several contributions. First …

Design research and practice within HCI is inherently oriented toward the future. However,
the vision of the future described by HCI researchers and practitioners is typically utility …

The material foundations of computer systems and interactive technology is a topic that
gained an increased interest within the HCI community during the last years. In this paper …