Shepherdess O Eiffel Tower this morning the bridges are bleating — Guillaume Apollinaire, “Zone,” translated by Donald Revell 1. What Everyone Has Read Here’s poetry this morning and for prose you’re reading the tabloids Disposable paperbacks filled with crimes and police Biographies of great men a thousand various titles (ibid) To belong to, and to be able…
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And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy …
From The Chronicle of Higher Education to The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York times and everywhere I turn it seems, everyone seems to be talking–and worrying–about generative AI, such as ChatGPT, and its impacts on higher education. While academics and journalists debate about whether generative AI is good or bad, threatening to higher…
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Recently, a colleague of mine from industry expressed some of the challenges she faced when reaching out to a university seeking collaboration, a proposed collaboration that she was able to fund. In spite of doing her homework and offering funding, her efforts generated little interest. Meanwhile, I have been struggling for years to improve the…
1. Earlier this summer I started reading Henry David Thoreau’s Walden. Recently, I have found solace and space for growth by immersing myself in nature and in fine writing; Walden combines both at the highest levels. One of the most quoted passages of Walden explains why the book resonates with me now, as it has…
In the last year or two, as a researcher, academic administrator, and teacher, I have been confronted almost daily with issues connected to generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT). As it connects to language and our hopes and fears for the future, this topic has reactivated intellectual interests of mine that date back to my graduate school…
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In most books, the I, or first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained […]. We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking. I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am…
I’m so excited to share that my new book, co-edited with Shaowen Bardzell and Mark Blythe and entitled Critical Theory and Interaction Design, is now available. After discussing the need for such a book for years, we finally moved forward when we came upon a cool concept for it: we’d invite leading HCI researchers to identify…
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Jeffrey Bardzell Indiana University (version: August 2018) [Background: This is a handout for MS HCI/d students that I’ve been iteratively working on for a decade or so. Given the recent interest in this topic–see, e.g., howtocrit.com–I’ve decided to make it publicly available.] Introduction As both design practitioners and everyday citizens, we all critique. We do…
One comment I hear from the HCI and design communities–from students and senior researchers alike–is the assumption that criticality is negative, that the role of a critique is to “destroy” something, or that critics just dump on the hard work of others. I want to push back against this idea, and I will explain why…
Interaction Culture 