Use of intelligent voice assistants by older adults with low technology use

A Pradhan, A Lazar, L Findlater - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Voice assistants embodied in smart speakers (eg, Amazon Echo, Google Home) enable
voice-based interaction that does not necessarily rely on expertise with mobile or desktop …

Researching the emergence of 3D printing, makerspaces, hackerspaces and fablabs in the global south: A scoping review and research agenda on digital innovation …

R Seo‐Zindy, R Heeks - The Electronic Journal of Information …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Enabled by ICTs and digital fabrication tools such as 3D printing, and facilitated by shared
workspaces such as makerspaces and FabLabs, digital innovation and fabrication networks …

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 …

Making as expression: Informing design with people with complex communication needs through art therapy

A Lazar, JL Feuston, C Edasis, AM Piper - Proceedings of the 2018 CHI …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
There is a growing emphasis on designing with people with diverse health experiences
rather than designing for them. Yet, collaborative design becomes difficult when working …

Developing makerspaces as sites of entrepreneurship

JS Hui, EM Gerber - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Makerspaces are providing new opportunities for entrepre-neurial development. Based on
participant observation and a series of in-depth interviews in an entrepreneurial mak …

Do responses to the COVID-19 pandemic anticipate a long-lasting shift towards peer-to-peer production or degrowth?

LR Dartnell, K Kish - Sustainable Production and Consumption, 2021 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic simultaneously triggered a sudden, substantial increase in
demand for items such as personal protection equipment and hospital ventilators whilst also …

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 …

Hugs, bible study, and speakeasies: designing for older adults' multimodal connectedness

OK Richards, G Marcu, RN Brewer - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Older adults can experience significant changes to their social networks as they age,
triggering changes in their social connection practices. In this paper, we extend research on …

Altruism and wellbeing as care work in a craft-based maker culture

D Vyas - Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
This paper aims to examine motivations of participants for being involved in a crafts-based,
women-only maker organization. Over a period of three months, we observed and …

Adopting diffractive reading to advance hci research: A case study on technology for aging

A Lazar, B Jelen, A Pradhan, KA Siek - ACM Transactions on Computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Researchers in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) have long developed technologies for
older adults. Recently, researchers are engaging in critical reflections of these approaches …