Published in Vaisselle ma belle·Feb 5Ode au buffet à vaisselleLa vaisselle est indispensable aux traditions d’hospitalité, même dans ses formes les plus simples, et objet de fierté. On la retrouve par exemple dans le décor dans les peintures de Carl Larsson, Suédois connu pour ses peintures d’intérieurs, ou encore dans la chaumière de Banshees of Inisherin. …Design6 min readDesign6 min read
Published in Vaisselle ma belle·Jan 28Everything Is Bigger in the United States (Including Forks)How a small design differences make the everyday feel wrong — Everything is bigger in the United States: cars, roads, ovens, chairs, beds, mattresses, you name it. Not just a little bigger either — kitchen appliances are easily two to three times as large. People having recently immigrated hesitate ordering anything online because they don’t have a sense of how large…Design2 min readDesign2 min read
Published in Vaisselle ma belle·Aug 26, 2020Amora nos enfancesLe verre à moutarde décoré, marque une enfance en France après les années 60. — La pop culture fédère autour de références communes à chaque classe d’âge. S’il y a toujours eu des cultures populaires enfantines, la production en grandes séries et l’évolution de la publicité ont accéléré et élargi la circulation de biens enfantins identiques, partagés, identificatoires. Ceux-ci rythment, puis rappellent l’enfance, l’enracinent dans…Enfant3 min readEnfant3 min read
Published in The Bold Italic·Aug 24, 2020Member-onlyI’m Turning 30 in 2020. I Don’t Want a Celebration.Outside is off limits, and I don’t think anyone has energy left for a Zoom party — I won’t celebrate my 30th birthday. Vast swaths of land are going up in flames. Were we to meet outside for socializing, we’d be nursing headaches, scratchy throats, and aching eyes, and that’s if we were lucky enough not to get rained on by ashes. Meeting inside isn’t an option…Pandemic5 min readPandemic5 min read
May 19, 2020Theory of Human-Computer InteractionA crowd-sourced reading list — Face-to-face user studies had to be halted in the wake of Covid-19, and appear unlikely to resume any time soon. We are figuring out how to navigate this so-called ‘New Normal,’ exploring how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) can contribute to the research effort and how our research practices can be adapted…Technology4 min readTechnology4 min read
Published in UX Collective·May 2, 2020Member-onlyEvaluating technologies with and for visually impaired people30 years of evaluating innovative accessible or assistive technology in Human-Computer Interaction research and how we could do better. — Quantitative, if possible experimental, studies and evaluations are central in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and to motivate policy initiatives. Yet, few technologies for children with visual impairments have been evaluated this way in education research; it is also an issue in research on technology for locomotion and mobility. Even if they…Accessibility3 min readAccessibility3 min read
Published in UsabilityGeek·Apr 22, 2020How to do a Thematic analysisBraun and Clarke’s thematic analysis has become a staple of qualitative HCI research. Here’s how to get started with their reflexive Thematic Analysis method and why themes don’t emerge. — In 2015 at the very beginning of my PhD, my advisor gave me a simple yet essential advice for academic writing: look at papers similar to what you want to achieve. New to qualitative methods, I analyzed a sample of qualitative papers published at CHI that year. Qualitative analysis either…UX Research9 min readUX Research9 min read
Aug 19, 2019When Punishing Young People for Using Tech Widens the Social DivideMany initiatives attempt to initiate young people to programming to increase the diversity of the tech industry. But current ways of disciplining technology uses in school are diminishing their impact — and hide their transformative potential. — From the fear that social media create isolation and bullying to the fear that video games are a a main cause of gun violence, when it comes to young people using technologies, the headlines mostly convey panic. At best, we recognise that there are good and bad technology for young…Education3 min readEducation3 min read
Jul 16, 2019Micro-ethics in Participatory Design with ChildrenA summary of our recent work on ethics in Participatory design with Katta Spiel. There has been quite some interest in micro-ethics in (participatory) design in the recent years. By micro-ethics, I refer to research on ethics focusing on situated moral judgements and decisions — by contrast to, for instance…Design3 min readDesign3 min read
Published in Vaisselle ma belle·Jun 17, 2019La maison de retraite, et le thé dans un gobelet en plastiqueLa vaisselle, le bien vivre et le bien vieillir — C’était un dimanche passé dans une maison de retraite médicalisée dans le sud de la France. On appelle ces maisons Ehpads, Établissements d’Hébergement pour Personnes âgées Dépendantes. C’est un bon Ehpad m’avait-on dit, il est associatif, les pensionnaires s’y sentent bien, il n’y a pas de maltraitance. …Design3 min readDesign3 min read
