Agenda for Monday, March 15

Discussion on Equator: Challenging Traditional HCI.

In this weeks interactions reading group, we will be discussing a number of papers that have come out of the Equator project and how they challenge traditional thoughts on HCI.

Notes taken during the discussion are available

Faith leading discussion on Information Representation in Computer Supported Cooperative Work Environments

Primary paper: Seamful and Seamless Design in Ubiquitous Computing.

This paper questions whether seamlessness in ubiquitous computing is always a preferable choice or whether the users can benefit from the presence of seems.

Supporting paper: Information Awareness and Representation

This paper looks that the way in which how information is presented affects the awareness of people and information within their awareness of a computer system.

Maria leading discussion on the Relationship between Musical Structure and Hyperstructure

Primary paper: On Hyperstructure and Musical Structure.

This paper investigates the relationship between musical structure and hyperstructure. It looks at experiments that have used musical content to explore hypermedia and techniques that can be learn from them.

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