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The Leaves are Goldenputting the periphery at the heart of information design
Alan DixTalis and University of Birmingham
http://alandix.com/academic/talks/HCI2016-the-leaves-are-golden/
my first HCI paper
@ First British HCI Conference 1985
Tiree
Tiree Tech Wave8–12 Oct2016
University ofBirmingham
detailed interactionwidgets
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CSCW, socialinformation systems
ethical, political
HCIpeople and technology
HCI
CSCW, socialinformation systems
ethical, political
dataHuman-DataInteraction
datapeople and information
Aside: Data Journal for HCI?
first paper on privacy in HCI
@ Interact’90 (with British HCI) Cambridge 1990
REFanalysis
concertdata
island & community
data
Waleswalk data
datapeople andinformation
learninganalytics
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tradition information systemsthe centre is golden
edges are viewsof centre
core values:
integrity
consistencycontrolsingle defined
schema / ontology
… but …
‘parallel systems’
local spreadsheets, paper systems, etc.
hated by central IT
often ‘get the job done’
… the cloud …
wonderful sometimes long-lost friends on FB access everywheresharing data, photosmaps everywhere
but with cost …privacy, hyper-targeted ads, loss of community content and controleven semantic web often ingest-based
traditional issues (but still current) efficiency and currency
“ownership” and organisational knowledge
newer issues (although not totally new)personal data and privacy
empowermentcore issue:central controlnot central storage
so what can we do about it?
design thatvalues the periphery
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office information systems
some heuristics
don’t enforce consistencyinstead highlight inconsistency
don’t impose ontologiesinfer semantics through
interaction
meaning is use
semantics through interaction
respect user’ssemantics
data beforesemantics
externalsemantics
academia
learning analytics
over half of UK universitiescloud storage but individual
control
challenges:individual ‘ownership’students & academics
network synergies respectingdistributed ownership
In Concert
with Huddersfield, Goldsmiths, Illinois, British Library
Concert ephemera1750–1800 Calendar of London Concerts1815–1895 Concert Life in London1894–1944 Concert Programme Exchange (BL)
In Concert
central academic value:authority and quality
so …protect original spreadsheets and databasescentral portal is cache/view of thesewrappers and external semanticsthen query, visualise, augment, anotate
communities
Open Data
everyone is doing it
Governments, Cities, local gov.
In C21 Data is Power
why not an island?
island data flows
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
othercommunities
12
3
4
island data flowsfrom community to world
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
1• visibility and
control• identity and
empowerment• level of detail• local knowledge
island data flowsfrom world to community
Community
groups and individuals
rest ofthe world
2 • making the mostof open data• local decision
making• lobbying and
negotiation
island data flowswithin the community
Community
groups and individuals
3
• gossip is not enough!• sparse, dispersed population• social cohesion and economic benefits
island data flowsbetween communities
Community
groups and individuals
othercommunities
4
• sharing best practice• brand presence• interlinked data
benefits to …
the communityempowerment and controlavailability of informationcommunication within and between communities
the worldimproved quality of datalevel of detail of datalocal knowledge and understanding
Fusion …
researchheterogeneity, semantics through interaction,the cloud – network benefits without centralisation?
teachingsensitivity to existing practice – make the computer workdon’t just reach for the database!
practicereal problems for real users
value the periphery
the leaves are golden