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Why HCI Should Listen to Mothers
A call for the HCI community to spend some design effort on helping new mothers with the considerable physical and emotional challenges they face.
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Nerdy Strutting: How to Put Women Off the Tech Industry
A reflection on how interaction patterns in the tech industry might be off putting to women even if they are not offensive or explicitly exclusive.
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Little Miss Geek
Belinda Parmar's book Little Miss Geek highlights the gender imbalances within the tech industry, offering practical suggestions of how businesses can overcome...
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Design Adventures in a Children
The first in a series of articles about the design process used in a technology and play project in a children's hospital.
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Celebrate Open Access Week With ACM
Help your papers reach a wide audience with ACM's new service: Author-Izer.
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U.K. Students Turned Into Goldfish By Social Networking
On the social networking obsession among U.K. students: It's the very air they breathe.
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Gender Discrimination in the U.K. Research Excellence Framework
The U.K. research assessment framework will discriminate against female researchers. We can't afford to lose more women from CS research!
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Game-Based Ideas Management in the Workplace
A brief discussion of ideas management software used by the U.K. government.
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The Impact of Console Games in the Classroom
A summary of some interesting findings relating to the use of console games in Scottish primary and secondary school classrooms.
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Learning Through Twitter
Commentary on a recent study which evalauted the impact of Twitter on student engagement and grades.
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How to Make a Geek Goddess Spit with Rage
A rather grumpy review of the book How to Be a Geek Goddess.
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Interface Design For New Mothers
Why is there so little research into interface design for new mothers? Interface designers—hear my cry! Here are some pointers for designing interfaces for mothers...
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Sorry, Turing
A happy ending to the petition which asked for an apology to Turing from the British government.
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The Benefits of Public Engagement
Working with public engagment projects can be satisfying, and has benefits for the researcher as well as the general public. This article describes my current Making...
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Atonement
A pointer to the petition to get an apology to Alan Turing from the British Government.
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Beyond Current Horizons
A brief description of a UK project which attempts to predict what society will be like in 30 years time.
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Computer Science Outreach: Meeting the Kids Half-Way
Some thoughts on how to interest young people in computer science, based on some recent workshops.
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