Skip to content

Tag: HCI

ACE2015 CFP – Animal Computer Interaction as Speculative and Critical Design Practice

Published by Alan Hook on August 12, 2015

As part of ongoing research i have been sifting through a large volume of Animal Computer Interaction projects, i will be attempting to write something for the extended Call For Papers for ACE2015 the conference for the Advancement of Computer Entertainment which critiques the focus on utility in a large proportion of ACI. This paper reframes ACI as a form of Speculative or Critical Design Practice which can be used to propose arguments about anthropocentrism. This paper will compare a range of digital games designed for cats designed for phone and tablet devices to analyse what these games, as instances of…

Continue readingACE2015 CFP – Animal Computer Interaction as Speculative and Critical Design Practice

Digitally Complemented Zoomorphism: a Theoretical Foundation for Human-Animal Interaction Design

Published by Alan Hook on June 23, 2015

Westerlaken, M., & Gualeni, S. Digitally Complemented Zoomorphism: a Theoretical Foundation for Human-Animal Interaction Design in DPPI ’13 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces pp 193-200

Continue readingDigitally Complemented Zoomorphism: a Theoretical Foundation for Human-Animal Interaction Design