Breakout session feedback

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Break-out session feedback

• Considering sociology and CS in Human Centered
  Computing
• Questions addressed
• What is Human Centered Computing?
• What are the key research issues?
• What funding models would appropriate for an HCC
  center?

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What is Human Centered Computing?

• Human Centered Computing is research which is
  centered around people
• focus on peoples everyday, ordinary activities
• not a focus on technology
• technologies in support of everyday activities
  technology as infrastructure for activities
• Focus on broad system people plus technologies
  as tools, as media
• Not technology-driven system design

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Considerations
Social engineering
Market forces
Industrial and institutional settings
The politics of technological interventions and
technologies
CSCWHCITechnical issues
Moral and ethical issues
Socio-cultural implications
Legal issues
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Possibilities for HCC

• Critical reflection on methodologies, innovative
  technologies and technological interventions
• Foregrounding of broader political issues