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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.