Ph.D. HCC — Core Reading List

BACKGROUND

1. Burrell, G., & Morgan, G. (1979). Sociological Paradigms and Organisational Analysis. Heinemann Educational Books. (Introduction & Section 1). Link: https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/5583610/mod_resource/content/2/%28Routledge%20Revivals%29%20Gibson%20Burrell%2C%20Gareth%20Morgan%20-%20Sociological%20Paradigms%20and%20Organisational%20Analysis_%20Elements%20of%20the%20Sociology%20of%20Corporate%20Life-Routledge%20%282019%29.pdf

2. Olson, J. S., & Kellogg, W. A. (Eds.). (2014). Ways of Knowing in HCI. Springer New York. Link: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0378-8

3. Rogers, Y. (2012). HCI Theory: Classical, Modern, and Contemporary. Link: https://doi.org/10.2200/S00418ED1V01Y201205HCI014

4. Suchman, L. A. (1987). Plans and situated actions: The problem of human-machine communication. Cambridge university press. (Chapter 1). Link: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/parc/techReports/ISL-6_Plans_and_Situated_Actions.pdf

EPISTEMOLOGIES OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

1. Bijker, W. E. (1997). Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: Toward a theory of sociotechnical change. MIT press. (Chapters 1 and 2)

2. Haraway, D. (1988). Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), 575–599. Link: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3178066.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Af25bb3c7c0bb18e22a308f6826778c2c

3. Kuhn, T. S. (1970). The structure of scientific revolutions (Vol. 111). Chicago University of Chicago Press. (Chapters 2, 3, 9, & 10)

4. Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (2013). Laboratory life: The construction of scientific facts. Princeton University Press. https://sites.tufts.edu/histmath/files/2015/11/LatourLabLif.pdf (Chapter 2)

5. Simon, H. A. (2019). The Sciences of the Artificial. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12107.001.0001 (Chapters 1, 5, & 6).

UNDERSTANDING ETHNOGRAPHY

See also Ways of Knowing - Chapter 1: Reading and Interpreting Ethnography by Dourish

1. Leigh Star, S. (2010). This is Not a Boundary Object: Reflections on the Origin of a Concept. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 35(5), 601–617. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243910377624

2. Seaver, N. (2017). Algorithms as culture: Some tactics for the ethnography of algorithmic systems. Big Data & Society, 4(2), 2053951717738104. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951717738104

3. Star, S. L., & Griesemer, J. R. (1989). Institutional Ecology, `Translations’ and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science, 19(3), 387–420. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631289019003001

4. Vertesi, J. (2014). Seamful Spaces: Heterogeneous Infrastructures in Interaction. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 39(2), 264–284. https://doi.org/10.1177/0162243913516012

DESIGN AS METHOD

See also Ways of Knowing - Chapter 8: Research Through Design in HCI by Zimmerman & Forlizzi

1. Simonsen, J., & Robertson, T. (2013). Routledge international handbook of participatory design (Vol. 711). Routledge New York. ( Chapter 2, 3, 7)

2. Wong-Villacres, M., DiSalvo, C., Kumar, N., & DiSalvo, B. (2020). Culture in Action: Unpacking Capacities to Inform Assets-Based Design. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376329

TECHNOLOGY AND POLITICS

1. Blumenthal, M. S., & Clark, D. D. (2001). Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end-to-end arguments vs. the brave new world. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 1(1), 70–109. https://doi.org/10.1145/383034.383037

2. Cowan, R. S. (1976). The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century. Technology and Culture, 17(1), 1–23. Link: https://doi.org/10.2307/3103251

3. Illich, I. (1973). Tools for Conviviality (Marion Boyars, 2009.).Link: https://arl.human.cornell.edu/linked%20docs/Illich_Tools_for_Conviviality.pdf

4. Joerges, B. (1999). Do Politics Have Artefacts? Social Studies of Science, 29(3), 411–431. https://doi.org/10.1177/030631299029003004

5. Winner, L. (2010). The whale and the reactor: A search for limits in an age of high technology. University of Chicago Press. (Chapter 2 "Do Artifacts Have Politics?")

ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP

See also Ways of Knowing - Chapter 3: Knowing by Doing: Action Research as an Approach to HCI by Hayes

1. Dimond, J. P., Dye, M., Larose, D., & Bruckman, A. S. (2013). Hollaback! The role of storytelling online in a social movement organization. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 477–490. https://doi.org/10.1145/2441776.2441831

2. Irani, L. C., & Silberman, M. S. (2013). Turkopticon: Interrupting worker invisibility in amazon mechanical turk. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 611–620. https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470742

3. Le Dantec, C. A., & Fox, S. (2015). Strangers at the Gate: Gaining Access, Building Rapport, and Co-Constructing Community-Based Research. Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, 1348–1358. https://doi.org/10.1145/2675133.2675147

4. Patton, D. U., Brunton, D.-W., Dixon, A., Miller, R. J., Leonard, P., & Hackman, R. (2017). Stop and Frisk Online: Theorizing Everyday Racism in Digital Policing in the Use of Social Media for Identification of Criminal Conduct and Associations. Social Media + Society, 3(3), 2056305117733344. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305117733344

SOCIAL THEORY

1. Bardzell, S. (2010). Feminist HCI: Taking stock and outlining an agenda for design. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1301–1310. https://doi.org/10.1145/1753326.1753521

2. Benjamin, R. (2019). Race after technology: Abolitionist tools for the new jim code. Social Forces. (Chapter 1 and 5)

3. Brown, K., & Jackson, D. D. (2013). The history and conceptual elements of critical race theory. In Handbook of critical race theory in education (pp. 29–42). Routledge. http://www.elegantbrain.com/edu4/classes/readings/depository/race/critic_race_theory_def_hist.pdf

4. Stefancic, J., & Delgado, R. (2017). Critical race theory: An introduction (Vol. 20). NyUpress. https://scholarship.law.ua.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046&context=fac_working_papers (Chapter 1)

5. Mittelstadt, B. D., Allo, P., Taddeo, M., Wachter, S., & Floridi, L. (2016). The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate. Big Data & Society, 3(2), 2053951716679679. https://doi.org/10.1177/2053951716679679

6. Swidler, A. (1986). Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies. American Sociological Review, 51(2), 273–286. https://doi.org/10.2307/2095521

HISTORY SECTION

1. Bush, V. (1945). As We May Think. The Atlantic Monthly, 176(1), 101–108. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/227181.227186

2. Cowan, R. S. (1976). The “Industrial Revolution” in the Home: Household Technology and Social Change in the 20th Century. Technology and Culture, 17(1), 1–23. https://doi.org/10.2307/3103251

AREAS OF PRACTICE IN HCC @GT

Cognition and AI

1. Goel, A. (2019). Computational Design, Analogy, and Creativity. In T. Veale & F. A. Cardoso (Eds.), Computational Creativity: The Philosophy and Engineering of Autonomously Creative Systems (pp. 141–158). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43610-4_7

2. Goel, A. K., & Davies, J. (2011). Artificial Intelligence. In Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence. RJ Sternberg & SB Kaufman (Editors). http://dilab.gatech.edu/test/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/AI-GoelDavies2011-Final.pdf

3. Hutchins, E. (1995). How a Cockpit Remembers Its Speeds. Cognitive Science, 19(3), 265–288. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog1903_1

4. Lakoff, G. (20). Women, fire, and dangerous things: What categories reveal about the mind (paperback ed., [Nachdr.]). The Univ. of Chicago Press. https://lecturayescrituraunrn.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/unidad-5-lakoff-women-fire-and-danger.pdf (Chapter 2)

5. Wilson, M. (2002). Six views of embodied cognition. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9(4), 625–636. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196322

Health Informatics

1. Ernala, S. K., Birnbaum, M. L., Candan, K. A., Rizvi, A. F., Sterling, W. A., Kane, J. M., & De Choudhury, M. (2019). Methodological Gaps in Predicting Mental Health States from Social Media: Triangulating Diagnostic Signals. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300364

2. Saksono, H., Castaneda-Sceppa, C., Hoffman, J., Seif El-Nasr, M., Morris, V., & Parker, A. G. (2018). Family Health Promotion in Low-SES Neighborhoods: A Two-Month Study of Wearable Activity Tracking. Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173883

3. Veinot, T. C., Mitchell, H., & Ancker, J. S. (2018). Good intentions are not enough: How informatics interventions can worsen inequality. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 25(8), 1080–1088. https://doi.org/10.1093/jamia/ocy052

4. Yang, D., Kraut, R. E., Smith, T., Mayfield, E., & Jurafsky, D. (2019). Seekers, Providers, Welcomers, and Storytellers: Modeling Social Roles in Online Health Communities. Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300574

Information & Communication Technologies for Development

1. Duncombe, R. (2006). Using the Livelihoods Framework to Analyze ICT Applications for Poverty Reduction through Microenterprise. Information Technologies & International Development, 3(3), Article 3. http://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/231.html

2. Heeks, R. (2008). ICT4D 2.0: The Next Phase of Applying ICT for International Development. Computer, 41(6), 26–33. https://doi.org/10.1109/MC.2008.192

3. Kumar, R., & Best, M. L. (2006). Impact and Sustainability of E-Government Services in Developing Countries: Lessons Learned from Tamil Nadu, India. The Information Society, 22(1), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1080/01972240500388149

4. Srinivasan, J., & Burrell, J. (2015). On the Importance of Price Information to Fishers and to Economists: Revisiting Mobile Phone Use Among Fishers in Kerala. Information Technologies & International Development, 11(1), Article 1. https://itidjournal.org/index.php/itid/article/view/1362.html

Learning Sciences

1. Bransford, J. D., Brown, A. L., & Cocking, R. R. (2000). How people learn (Vol. 11). Washington, DC: National academy press. https://www.desu.edu/sites/flagship/files/document/16/how_people_learn_book.pdf (Chapter 2)

2. Bransford, J. D., & Schwartz, D. L. (1999). Chapter 3: Rethinking transfer: A simple proposal with multiple implications. Review of Research in Education, 24(1), 61–100. Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.3102/0091732X024001061?casa_token=LxHg-1_cE-MAAAAA:QwjHU2g49VWuFTci_qi7dFqV6cY6GY831wuHPgWvTVPvjht-jxwf6xdWFw7gULPw__uokM9KXio

3. Greeno, J. G., Collins, A. M., & Resnick, L. B. (1996). Cognition and learning. Handbook of Educational Psychology, 77, 15–46. http://sonify.psych.gatech.edu/~ben/references/greeno_cognition_and_learning.pdf

4. Lave, J., & Wenger, E. (1991). Situated learning: Legitimate peripheral participation. Cambridge university press. http://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/1301652/cb419d882cd5bb5286069675b449da38.pdf?1506793465

Security and Privacy

1. Acquisti, A., Brandimarte, L., & Loewenstein, G. (2015). Privacy and human behavior in the age of information. Science, 347(6221), 509–514. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaa1465

2. Herley, C. (2009). So long, and no thanks for the externalities: The rational rejection of security advice by users. Proceedings of the 2009 Workshop on New Security Paradigms Workshop, 133–144. https://doi.org/10.1145/1719030.1719050

Social Computing

1. Bryant, S. L., Forte, A., & Bruckman, A. (2005). Becoming Wikipedian: Transformation of participation in a collaborative online encyclopedia. Proceedings of the 2005 International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.1145/1099203.1099205

2. Erickson, T., Halverson, C., Kellogg, W. A., Laff, M., & Wolf, T. (2002). Social translucence: Designing social infrastructures that make collective activity visible. Communications of the ACM, 45(4), 40–44. https://doi.org/10.1145/505248.505270

3. Goffman, E. (2021). The presentation of self in everyday life. Anchor. https://monoskop.org/images/1/19/Goffman_Erving_The_Presentation_of_Self_in_Everyday_Life.pdf (Introduction & Chapter 1)

4. Granovetter, M. S. (1973). The strength of weak ties. American Journal of Sociology, 78(6), 1360–1380. https://doi.org/10.1086/225469

Ubiquitous Computing

1. Abowd, G. D. (2012). What next, ubicomp? Celebrating an intellectual disappearing act. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 31–40. https://doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370222

2. Abowd, G. D., & Mynatt, E. D. (2000). Charting past, present, and future research in ubiquitous computing. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(1), 29–58. https://doi.org/10.1145/344949.344988

3. Bell, G., & Dourish, P. (2007). Yesterday’s tomorrows: Notes on ubiquitous computing’s dominant vision. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11(2), 133–143. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-006-0071-x

4. Dourish, P., & Mainwaring, S. D. (2012). Ubicomp’s colonial impulse. Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, 133–142. https://doi.org/10.1145/2370216.2370238

5. Weiser, M. (1991). The Computer for the 21 st Century. Scientific American, 265(3), 94–105. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24938718

Visualization

1. Fekete, J.-D., van Wijk, J. J., Stasko, J. T., & North, C. (2008). The Value of Information Visualization. In A. Kerren, J. T. Stasko, J.-D. Fekete, & C. North (Eds.), Information Visualization: Human-Centered Issues and Perspectives (pp. 1–18). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70956-5_1

2. Wall, E., Blaha, L. M., Franklin, L., & Endert, A. (2017). Warning, Bias May Occur: A Proposed Approach to Detecting Cognitive Bias in Interactive Visual Analytics. 2017 IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (VAST), 104–115. https://doi.org/10.1109/VAST.2017.8585669

3. Wattenberg, M., & Kriss, J. (2006). Designing for social data analysis. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 12(4), 549–557. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVCG.2006.65