La 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. …

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…

Le 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…

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…

A 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…

30 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…

Braun 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…

Many 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…

A 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…