Reconstituting the utopian vision of making: HCI after technosolutionism

S Lindtner, S Bardzell, J Bardzell - … of the 2016 chi conference on human …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
HCI research has both endorsed" making" for its innovation and democratization capacity
and critiqued its underlying technosolutionism, ie, the idea that technology provides …

Design (ing)'Here'and'There' Tech Entrepreneurs, Global Markets, and Reflexivity in Design Processes

S Avle, S Lindtner - Proceedings of the 2016 CHI conference on human …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
HCI shapes in important ways dominant notions of what counts as innovation and where
(good) design is located. In this paper, we argue for the continuous expansion of the body of …

An intimate laboratory? Prostheses as a tool for experimenting with identity and normalcy

CL Bennett, K Cen, KM Steele, DK Rosner - Proceedings of the 2016 …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
This paper is about the aspects of ability, selfhood, and normalcy embodied in people's
relationships with prostheses. Drawing on interviews with 14 individuals with upper-limb …

Infrastructural inaccessibility: Tech entrepreneurs in occupied palestine

P Bjørn, N Boulus-Rødje - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
In this article, we examine the fundamental and taken-for-granted infrastructures that make
tech entrepreneurship possible. We report from a longitudinal ethnographic study of tech …

Care and the construction of hacker identities, communities, and society

AL Toombs - 2016 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Recent scholarship in Human-Computer Interaction, science and technology
studies, and design research has focused on hacker communities as sites of innovation and …

Making things last: digital obsolescence and its resistance by DIY culture

DJ Roedl - 2016 - search.proquest.com
The proliferation of digital technologies has brought myriad benefits to everyday life. At the
same time, it has also brought harmful effects to the environment, including energy …

Distributed Apprenticeship and Social Technologies in Informal Communities of Entrepreneurs

JS Hui - 2017 - search.proquest.com
Greater interest in self-directed professions, like entrepreneurship, have led to a growth in
informal workplace communities and social technologies that support new ways of working …