Maria Normark

Reflections on norm-critical design efforts in online youth counselling

We explore social norms embedded in interaction design, how different identity roles are made relevant during a specific design project and how norm-critical efforts are made by different actors during this design process. We have studied the development of the Swedish National Youth Counselling site to illustrate how interaction design may construct meaning, norms and values in design. We present an ethnographic study, the development of the Love Animation. Examples are shown in which interaction design unintentionally discourages the purpose of the intended message which suggests that there is a need for further understanding of how the content and the interaction design relates to each other. Using Science and Technology theories, the research join the emergent critical tradition in HCI and a critical perspective on technology as a co-constructing agent is applied.

HCI and UN's Sustainable Development Goals: Responsibilities, Barriers and Opportunities

Despite increasing interest, Sustainable HCI has been critiqued for doing too little, and perhaps also at times for doing the wrong things. Still, a field like Human-Computer Interaction should aim at being part of transforming our society into a more sustainable one. But how do we do that, and, what are we aiming for? With this workshop, we propose that HCI should start working with the new global Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that were formally adopted by the UN in September 2015. How can Sustainable HCI be inspired by, and contribute to these goals? What should we in the field of HCI do more of, and what should we perhaps do less of? In what areas should we form partnerships in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goals and with whom should we partner?

Performativity in sustainable interaction: the case of seasonal grocery shopping in ecofriends

The EcoFriends application was developed as an attempt to support grocery shopping adjusted to vegetables? seasonality through a performative approach to interaction and interactive applications. The design aimed at critical reflection and inspiration among users, rather than achieving a certain kind of persuasion. This guided the practical design to be modelled around open-endedness and social voices to challenge ideas and points of view. We argue that research addressing design for interactions about value-laden concepts such as sustainable action need to find ways of supporting various knowledge discourses, by distinguishing between performative and representational technologies. The approach allowed us to identify a number of design challenges regarding interactive technology and interaction design in relation to aspects of knowledge and truth, trust, negotiation and responsibility.

Community gardening in Stockholm : participation, driving forces and the role of the municipality

The paper reports on a study of community gardening in Stockholm. We contribute to the body of knowledge about the sustainability of community gardens and this new form of citizen-led initiatives i ...

A grand challenge for HCI: food + sustainability

Juliet Norton, University of California, Irvine Ankita Raturi, University of California, Irvine Bonnie Nardi, University of California, Irvine Sebastian Prost, Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK Samantha McDonald, University of California, Irvine Daniel Pargman, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Oliver Bates, Lancaster University Maria Normark, Södertörn University Bill Tomlinson, University of California, Irvine Nico Herbig, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Lynn Dombrowski, Indiana University – Purdue University – Indianapolis

Book Review: Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices : Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Kjeld Schmidt

Book Review: Cooperative Work and Coordinative Practices : Contributions to the Conceptual Foundations of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), Kjeld Schmidt