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HCI’s Making Agendas
Author(s): Jeffrey Bardzell;Shaowen Bardzell;Cindy Lin;Silvia Lindtner;Austin Toombs
Source: Journal:Foundations and Trends® in Human-Computer Interaction ISSN Print:1551-3955, ISSN Online:1551-3963 Publisher:Now Publishers Volume 11 Number 3, Pages: 81 (126-200) DOI: 10.1561/1100000066
Abstract:
In this survey, we examine how making emerged as an interdisciplinary
arena of scholarship, research and design that connects entrepreneurs,
designers, researchers, critical theorists, historians, anthropologists,
computer scientists and engineers. HCI is one among many other fields
and domains that has declared having a stake in making. And yet,
a lot of what and who defines making is happening outside the familiar
research laboratory or design studio. We take this article as an
opportunity to reflect on HCI’s relationship to making and how this relationship
has changed over the last years. Making, we argue, presents
HCI with the opportunity to question and revisit underlying principles
and long-held aspirations and values of the field. Exactly because HCI
and making share some fundamental ideals such as user empowerment
and the democratization of participation and technology production,
making confronts us with both the potential and the unintended consequences
of our own work.
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