As part of the “Technology on the Trail” initiative, we hosted a reading group on Friday afternoons from October 21 through November 18. We met from 4pm-5pm on Fridays at the Moss Arts Center in the Learning Observation Room (Moss 251).  Our readings and summaries are listed here.

Calendar of readings [group summary linked in brackets]

• Oct 21: Rogers’ big picture of theory and practice [summary]
  • Yvonne Rogers (2011). Interaction design gone wild: striving for wild theory. interactions 18, 4 (July 2011), 58-62.
  • Yvonne Rogers, Sara Price, Cliff Randell, Danae Stanton Fraser, Mark Weal, and Geraldine Fitzpatrick (2005). Ubi-learning integrates indoor and outdoor experiences. Communications of the ACM 48, 1 (January 2005), 55-59.
• Oct 28: An overview of Alan walks Wales [summary]
  • Alan Dix (2013). Mental Geography, Wonky Maps, and a Long Way Ahead. In Proc. GeoHCI (workshop at CHI 2013).
  • Alan Dix and Geoffrey Ellis (2015). The Alan Walks Wales Dataset: Quantified Self and Open Data. Journal of Open Data as Open Educational Resources, 56-66.
• Nov 4: Harmon, the PCT, and Communication [summary]
  • Ellie Harmon and Melissa Mazmanian (2013). Stories of the Smartphone in everyday discourse: conflict, tension & instability. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’13). 1051-1060.
• Nov 11: A social or asocial journey? [summary]
  • Maaret Posti, Johannes Schöning, and Jonna Häkkilä (2014). Unexpected journeys with the HOBBIT: the design and evaluation of an asocial hiking app. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS ’14), 637-646.
• Nov 18: Bridging urban and woods technology use [summary]
  • Dana Cuff, Mark Hansen, and Jerry Kang (2008). Urban sensing: out of the woods. Communications of the ACM 51, 3 (March 2008), 24-33.

Other readings:

We won’t get to all of these, but here are some suggested by others that are relevant to the topic. When available, a brief description is provided, or a link to a longer blog post on this site.

• In-the-wild things
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) – Special Issue of “The Turn to The Wild”. Volume 20 Issue 3, July 2013.
    • Andy Crabtree, Alan Chamberlain, Rebecca E. Grinter, Matt Jones, Tom Rodden, and Yvonne Rogers (2013). Introduction to the Special Issue of “The Turn to the Wild”.  In ACM TOCHI 20(3).
    • Elizabeth Bonsignore, Alex Quinn, Allison Druin, and Ben Bederson (2013). Sharing Stories “in the Wild”: A Mobile Storytelling Case Study Using StoryKit. In ACM TOCHI 20 (3).
  • Fiona Ssozi-Mugarura, Thomas Reitmaier, Anja Venter, and Edwin Blake (2016). Enough with “in the Wild”. In Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction (AfriCHI’16).
  • Yvonne Rogers (2012). HCI Theory: Classical, Modern, Contemporary. Morgan & Claypool.
• Communicating communication
  • Melissa Mazmanian, Ingrid Erickson, and Ellie Harmon. 2015. Circumscribed Time and Porous Time: Logics as a Way of Studying Temporality. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW ’15).
  • http://ellieharmon.com/
• More maps, walks, sensing, and understanding associated data
  • Stephen C. Hirtle (2011). Geographical Design: Spatial Cognition and Geographical Information Science.  Morgan & Claypool.
  • http://alanwalks.wales/
  • Bin Guo, Chao Chen, Daqing Zhang, Zhiwen Yu, and Alvin Chin (2016). Mobile crowd sensing and computing: when participatory sensing meets participatory social media.  In IEEE Communications 54 (2).

Suggest Future Readings:

Ideas for other relevant readings?  Please provide them below!