of each character is excessively and uncompromisingly depicted. Their goal is to accumulate more, and such an end justifies any means. One could argue that the hightech community, too, has become structured “according to the unequal, savage logic wrought by capitalism” [1] and I’d argue that its what (outcome), how (method), and why (values) are frequently rather questionable. Several years ago, after viewing a demo of a new technology, I asked the inventor if he could imagine ways in which his design might be harmful. With a puzzled look, he replied, “Absolutely not.” After I listed a handful of very problematic and likely misuses of his creation, his response was that he could not be held accountable for what other people might do with his technology. Technically, he was not incorrect. Another time, I asked a colleague if he would put his newly designed surveillance system in his own home. With an incredulous look, he replied, “Of course not.” When I asked him why he thought others should put it in their homes, he said he was confident that marketing would create the right value propositions to monetize such a highly efficient system. Sadly, he was right. Earlier in my career, I was offered the opportunity to be on a fast-promotion track by focusing on a research agenda centered on leveraging behavioral manipulation to increase product sales. When I refused to jump on the opportunity due to the insidiousness of the proposed scope, not only did my manager laugh at what she felt was pure stupidity but also a number of colleagues took the opportunity without hesitation. They were indeed promoted, several years ahead of me. Over the past two decades, I have collected many examples like the ones above. Ongoing discussions with colleagues and mentees confirm that I am not the only one experiencing such puzzling dynamics. Like characters in a movie, we—the high-tech sector— gleefully put on golden blinders and keep moving in one direction, toward satisfying our selfish desires for wealth and power. We seem to have stopped questioning whether something should be designed. We seem to have forgotten the delicate relationship between what is created and how to create. We seem to believe that the values we cherish in private life do not apply when we clock in. Our what, how, and why are too frequently distorted and, like one of Östlund’s characters would say, we seem blissfully comfortable “in den wolken” (in the clouds), far from everyday reality. This may sound harsh, yet, let’s face it, we are shallower than we dare to admit. Similar to the Eastern European character in Triangle of Sadness who shares how he became a millionaire (“I sell shit,” he says, laughing), the hightech industry more frequently than not seems to be self-absorbed in endless manure production—because, it turns out, some will buy manure that they do not need if the surrounding apparatus makes the manure look and feel like must-have gold. This ongoing irresponsible behavior will no do
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{"title":"Stratum: Selfhood in the Digital World","authors":"Chariell Glogovac-Smith","doi":"10.1145/3592802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3592802","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":" ","pages":"16 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49475833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
As an early-career researcher, at first, I thought about the possibilities that engaging more profoundly with issues such as race, gender, and class in my work might make clear the unintended consequences of digital technologies in futuring (and defuturing) specific organizing features of communities in Africa. The prevailing argument in African HCI is how diverse social values, cultural attributes, and lived experiences can be drawn into conversations about the applicability and sustainability of HCI methods, approaches, and techniques to technology design projects. Within narratives about appropriation and localization, for example, issues of race and racism don’t figure prominently, and my initial thought was, what would CRT offer in furthering the understanding of the politics of design—ontologically and epistemologically?
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{"title":"Resource Man and the Smart Wife","authors":"Y. Strengers","doi":"10.1145/3582566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3582566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"30 1","pages":"36 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47312785","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interaction Design Solutions for Online Meetings","authors":"V. Kaptelinin","doi":"10.1145/3581785","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3581785","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"30 1","pages":"42 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46447207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This forum focuses on the conditions and futures of the labor underpinning technology production and maintenance. We welcome standalone articles as well as interviews and conversations about all tech labor within the global supply chain of digital technologies. --- Seyram Avle and Sarah Fox, Editors
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(audio jack, control wheel, buttons, and screen) was unchanged. Research products often seek to both endure daily life in the wild and be open to emergent opportunities [4,5]. To these ends, pace layer prototyping is a way to design layers of a prototype with different material (and immaterial) affordances to change, while maintaining a necessary degree of stability. Each layer requires different kinds of work and tools to make change, which can be manipulated by design. The Router of All Evil is a commercial Linksys router that has been hacked open, then relaid out and made stable on an acrylic backplate. The design principally has two pliable layers: The pegboard at the top presents the possibility of changing the hardware of the router, where components and panels can be easily reconfigured with the guidance of Bill Gaver and Andy Boucher. This was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Design Star Centre for Doctoral Training.
{"title":"Pace Layer Prototyping","authors":"D. Chatting","doi":"10.1145/3583127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3583127","url":null,"abstract":"(audio jack, control wheel, buttons, and screen) was unchanged. Research products often seek to both endure daily life in the wild and be open to emergent opportunities [4,5]. To these ends, pace layer prototyping is a way to design layers of a prototype with different material (and immaterial) affordances to change, while maintaining a necessary degree of stability. Each layer requires different kinds of work and tools to make change, which can be manipulated by design. The Router of All Evil is a commercial Linksys router that has been hacked open, then relaid out and made stable on an acrylic backplate. The design principally has two pliable layers: The pegboard at the top presents the possibility of changing the hardware of the router, where components and panels can be easily reconfigured with the guidance of Bill Gaver and Andy Boucher. This was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Design Star Centre for Doctoral Training.","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":"30 1","pages":"14 - 15"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43401272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Home Intimacies","authors":"D. Rosner, Alex H. Taylor, Mikael Wiberg","doi":"10.1145/3584740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3584740","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":" ","pages":"5 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45619424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Jihan Sherman","authors":"Jihan Sherman","doi":"10.1145/3583129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3583129","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":73404,"journal":{"name":"Interactions (New York, N.Y.)","volume":" ","pages":"12 - 13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48803438","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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