Andy Dearden

TL;DR: A critical review of patterns and pattern languages in human-computer interaction (HCI) seeks to locatepattern languages in relation to other approaches to interaction design, and explores four key issues.

TL;DR: This paper argues that enchantment is a useful concept to facilitate closer relationships between people and technology, and identifies the sensibilities that help designers design for enchantment, including the specific sensuousness of a thing, senses of play, paradox and openness, and the potential for transformation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored participants' experiences from a year-long participatory health service design project to develop "Better Outpatient Services for Older People" and found that the EBD method that they employed was successful in establishing positive working relationships among the different groups of stakeholders (staff, patients, carers, advocates and design researchers).

TL;DR: This paper aims to contextualize HCI4D—to give it some historical background, to review its existing literature spanning a number of research traditions, to discuss some of its key issues arising from the work done so far, and to suggest some major research objectives for the future.

TL;DR: Women need unambiguous advice regarding healthy lifestyles, diet and exercise in pregnancy to address a lack of knowledge and a tendency towards unhelpful self-talk messages.