Tentative Schedule for HCC1, Fall 2023

You are expected to come to class with a set of notes for the daily readings. These notes should include a) a summary of the material b) a question associated with the reading c) an interesting quote from the reading.  “Interesting” may mean “I so agreed with this!” or “I really hated this!” or “That was such a surprise!” or something else. Starting week 3 (maybe earlier) you should also have a quick thought about how this article impacts your notion of HCC. In other words, you should start building a framework/model that allows YOU to answer the questions, "What is HCC? " and "why is this article part of the Core Reading List?"  

All the readings have links in the CORE Reading List Web Page.

All graded assignments are due ON Canvas 9:30am-- at time you may be asked to bring/share a print out with your advisor.

Week 1: BACKGROUND

8/19: Welcome, Overview & Let's get started!

WHY WE ARE HERE :)

How do we handle the readings?

What is the point of the summaries? How do you know you have a good summary, is there "verisimilitude" between your summay and the article?

Reminder: always bring your summaries to class

8/21: 

Creswell, J., Research Design (RD1): Quantitative, Qualitative, and Mixed Methods,  Approaches (2009). Sage Publication, Thousand Oaks. Research Design Ch. 1 (This is in the canvas file folder).

Dourish, Paul (2011). What is Plagiarism?

Also, READ ONE OF YOUR HCC ADVISOR'S RECENT ARTICLES and ONE article from another HCC faculty member

HW1 due 8/21- Related to RD Ch1:

a.Summarize RD1

b.What "worldview" appeals most to you and why?  

c. What worldview does your “ HCC PhD advisor” adhere to? Be prepared to summarize their paper and evidence for your assertion.  

• If b and d are not the same how might you bridge this difference in worldview?

d. What is the world view of the other HCC faculty? Be prepared to summarize their paper and evidence for your assertion.  

Week 2:HCI THEORIES AND EPISTEMOLOGIES OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

8/26: A Brief History of HCI

• Yvonne Rogers, HCI Theory (in Canvas)

• Ways of Knowing in HCI, Gaver Chapter (in Canvas)

HW2 due 8/26

Regarding Yvonne Rogers “HCI Theory: Classical, Modern & Contemporary”

What is the premise of this monograph? Summarize it.

Present a theory that exemplifies each of the 3 eras.

Summarize Gaver.

How do topics covered in Gaver's chapter map onto Roger's monograph?

Draw at least one connection between the Creswell reading (RD1) and Roger's monograph?

Reflect on how the three readings (Gaver, Creswell and Rogers) are interconnected.

8/28: 

• Thomas Kuhn, “Scientific Paradigms”  (in Canvas). 1962 (First Edition), University of Chicago 

• Herbert Simon, “The Sciences of the Artificial”, chapters 1 & 5 (in Canvas). 1996 , MIT Press.

HW 3 due 8/28

1.Summarize Kuhn reading

2.Summarize Simon reading

3.Compare and contrast the Kuhn and Simon readings

4.Reflect on how concepts from Kuhn and Simon are interconnected with concepts we have covered in the previous readings (e.g., Gaver, Rogers, Creswell)

Week 3:EPISTEMOLOGIES OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Assignment: First of 11 Reading Reflections DUE (No more reminders will be included in the schedule)

9/2: HOLIDAY

9/4:  

1.Haraway. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Feminist Studies, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Autumn, 1988), pp. 575-599. 

2.Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, “An Anthropologist Visits the Laboratory”, chapter 2 of “Laboratory Life the construction of scientific facts, 1986. Princeton University Press

3. Bijker, “Of Bicycles, Bakelites, Bulbs.”, chapters 1 & 2, 1995. MIT Press.

Week 4: UNDERSTANDING ETHNOGRAPHY (see also Dourish Chapter in Ways of Knowing)

Assignment: SECOND of 11 Reading Reflections DUE 

9/9: 

1. Seaver, Nick. "Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems." Big data & society 4.2 (2017): 2053951717738104. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717738104

2. Star, Susan Leigh, and James R. Griesemer. "Institutional ecology, translations' and boundary objects: Amateurs and professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39." Social studies of science 19.3 (1989): 387-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631289019003001

9/11: 

3. Leigh Star, Susan. "This is not a boundary object: Reflections on the origin of a concept." Science, Technology, & Human Values 35.5 (2010): 601-617. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243910377624

4. Vertesi, Janet. "Seamful spaces: Heterogeneous infrastructures in interaction." Science, Technology, & Human Values 39.2 (2014): 264-284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243913516012

Week 5:DESIGN AS METHOD (see also Zimmerman Forlizzi Chapter and Gaver Chapter in Ways of Knowing)

Assignment: THIRD of 11 Reading Reflections DUE (No more reminders will be included in the schedule)

9/16:  Read TWO articles from your Specialization Reading list, at least one should be related to "design" 

e.g.,  HCI: https://ic.gatech.edu/phd-hcc-hci-reading-list

• Auger, James. "Speculative design: crafting the speculation." Digital Creativity 24.1 (2013): 11-35. [link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14626268.2013.767276]

• Sengers, Phoebe, et al. "Reflective design." Proceedings of the 4th decennial conference on Critical computing: between sense and sensibility. 2005. [link: https://doi.org/10.1145/1094562.1094569]

Draft of Research Proposal Introduction "Due" PHYSICAL copy: rationale, key questions and literature review (soft draft* Week 5); Print a copy of your paper to review in class.

9/18:

1. Simonsen, Jesper, and Toni Robertson, Eds. Routledge International Handbook Of Participatory Design. Routledge, 2012 ( Chapter 2, 3, 7)

2. Wong-Villacres, Marisol, et al. "Culture in Action: Unpacking Capacities to Inform Assets-Based Design." Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376329

Week 6: SOCIAL THEORY

4/11 reflections

9/23: 

1. Stefancic, Jean, and Richard Delgado. "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction." (2010). Pages 8-14 (Chapter 1) https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=fac_working_papers

2. Benjamin R. Race after technology: abolitionist tools for the new Jim code. Medford, MA: Polity, 2019. (Chapter 1 and 5) 

3. OR chapter provided by Dr. Bardzell (in Canvas)

9/25: MEETING in the IC CAFE-- Dr. Shaowen Bardzell will join!!

1. Bardzell, S. (2010, April). Feminist HCI: Taking Stock And Outlining An Agenda For Design. In Proceedings Of The Sigchi Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems (Pp. 1301-1310). https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753521

2. OR chapter provided by Prof Bardzell (in Canvas) 

Week 7:ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP (see also Hayes chapter in Ways of Knowing)

5/11 reflections

9/30: 

1. Dimond, Jill P., et al. "Hollaback! The role of storytelling online in a social movement organization." Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441831

2. Irani, Lilly C., And M. Six Silberman. "Turkopticon: Interrupting Worker Invisibility In Amazon Mechanical Turk." Proceedings Of The Sigchi Conference On Human Factors In Computing Systems. 2013. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470742

10/2: 

1. Blumenthal, Marjory S., and David D. Clark. "Rethinking the design of the internet: the end-to-end arguments vs. the brave new world." ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT)1.1 (2001): 70-109. https://doi.org/10.1145/383034.383037

2. Cowan, Ruth Schwartz. The "Industrial Revolution" In The Home: Household Technology And Social Change In The 20th Century. Technology And Culture (1976): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.2307/3103251 OR https://hss.sas.upenn.edu/sites/default/files/Industrial%20Revolution%20in%20the%20Home.pdf

Week 8: NO CLASS on 10/7 or 10/9--TAKE THE TIME TO "CATCH UP" 

Reflection is STILL DUE on 10/9 via canvas

WORK ON YOUR

• mini project 1 and/or 2

• research proposal

• elevator pitch

• Readings

Joerges, Bernward. "Do politics have artifacts?." Social studies of science 29.3 (1999): 411-431. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631299029003004

Winner, Langdon. The Whale And The Reactor: A Search For Limits In An Age Of High Technology. University Of Chicago Press, 2010. (Chapter 2 "Do Artifacts Have Politics?")

Illich, Ivan. Tools For Conviviality.1973.Link: ​​https://arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%20docs/Illich_Tools_for_Conviviality.pdf

WEEK 9 FALL BREAK & Engaged Practice

10/14: Holiday

10/16: 

3. Le Dantec, Christopher A., and Sarah Fox. "Strangers at the gate: Gaining access, building rapport, and co-constructing community-based research." Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on computer supported cooperative work & social computing. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675147

4. Patton, Desmond Upton, et al. "Stop and frisk online: Theorizing everyday racism in digital policing in the use of social media for identification of criminal conduct and associations." Social Media+ Society 3.3 (2017): 2056305117733344. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117733344

Elevator Pitch Written version due in Canvas  Tips on Giving a Great Elevator Speech

Be prepared to give your elevator pitch in-class next week (10/21)

Work on mini-project or reflection resubmission or your proposal. 

MINI- Project 1 due be prepared to discuss what you learned, what you learned about HCC communities of practice...

Week 10 Social Computing: 

7/11 reflections

10/21: 

1. Ernala, Sindhu Kiranmai, et al. "Methodological gaps in predicting mental health states from social media: triangulating diagnostic signals." Proceedings of the 2019 chi conference on human factors in computing systems. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300364

2. Yang, Diyi, et al. "Seekers, providers, welcomers, and storytellers: Modeling social roles in online health communities." Proceedings of the 2019 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300574

10/23: Draft Research Proposal: Study Design/Method Due ---Is the method appropriate to the questions you propose to address (soft draft* Week 10)

3. Saksono, Herman, et al. "Family health promotion in low-SES neighborhoods: A two-month study of wearable activity tracking." Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173883

4. Veinot, Tiffany C., Hannah Mitchell, and Jessica S. Ancker. "Good intentions are not enough: how informatics interventions can worsen inequality." Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25.8 (2018): 1080-1088. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocy052

Week 11:Areas of Practice II (Learning Science and Technology) 

8/11 Reflections--- you might be done!!!!

Here is a piece written about Bransford by our very own Sashank Varma: Meeting John Bransford

10/28: 

1.Bransford, John D., Ann L. Brown, and Rodney R. Cocking. How people learn. Vol. 11. Washington, DC: National academy press, 2000. (Only Chapter 2: “How Experts Differ From Novices,” )

[Link: https://www.desu.edu/sites/flagship/files/document/16/how_people_learn_book.pdf]

2.Bransford, J. D., and D. L. Schwartz. "Rethinking transfer: A simple proposal with multiple implications (Vol. 24)." Washington DC: American Educational Research Association(1999). [PDF]

10/30:

3. Lave, Jean, and Etienne Wenger. Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge university press, 1991.

[Link: http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/1301652/cb419d882cd5bb5286069675b449da38.pdf?1506793465 ]

4. Greeno, James G., Allan M. Collins, and Lauren B. Resnick. "Cognition and learning." Handbook of educational psychology 77 (1996): 15-46.

[Link: http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~ben/references/greeno_cognition_and_learning.pdf]

Week 12:Areas of Practice III (Social Computing) 

11/4: 

1. Bryant, Susan L., Andrea Forte, and Amy Bruckman. "Becoming Wikipedian: transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia." Proceedings of the 2005 international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work. 2005. https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099205

2. Erickson, Thomas, et al. "Social translucence: designing social infrastructures that make collective activity visible." Communications of the ACM 45.4 (2002): 40-44. https://doi.org/10.1145/505248.505270

11/6:

3. Granovetter, Mark S. "The strength of weak ties." American journal of sociology 78.6 (1973): 1360-1380. https://doi.org/10.1086/225469

4.Goffman, Erving. The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life. 1959. (Only Introduction And Chapter 1)

[Link:https://monoskop.org/images/1/19/Goffman_Erving_The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Everyday_Life.pdf ]

Week 13: Areas of Practice IV (Ubicomp) 

11/11: Monday  

1.Weiser, Mark. "The Computer for the 21 st Century." Scientific American 265.3 (1991): 94-105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24938718 

2.Dourish, Paul, and Scott D. Mainwaring. "Ubicomp's colonial impulse." Proceedings of the r2012 ACM conference on ubiquitous computing. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370238  

11/13: Wednesday

3.Bell, Genevieve, and Paul Dourish. "Yesterday’s tomorrows: notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision." Personal and ubiquitous computing 11.2 (2007): 133-143. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-006-0071-x 

4.Abowd, Gregory D. "What next, ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act." Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. 2012. https://doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370222 

Week 14 : Read 2 articles each day from your SPECIALIZATION READING LIST

11/18: 

11/20

Week 15: Short Week

11/25: Work Session

11/28: Fall Break-- Happy Thanksgiving

Week 16 Last week of instruction

12/2: Last Day of Class! 

1.Elevator Pitch presented without notes :)

2.Research Proposal (last chance for feedback (optional))

FINAL 12/11: 10:50am,  send me a link to your HCC 1 Portfolio 

Notebook with the following Tabs

Reflections (at least 3 at most 5 essays-- pick your favorite), 

Elevator Pitch, 

Research Proposal

Mini-Projects (1 & 2 are DUE-- simply add the "deliverable" you provided to the faculty)