2009.03.31 | Marianne Dammand Iversen

"Interaction and Infrastructure: Taking a Human-Centered View on
Networking"

We often think of the "user experience" as being an application layer
concern,something that can be applied in a thin veneer of menus and
graphics atop a software and hardware infrastructure. In this talk I'd
like to challenge that notion, to argue that concerns of interactive
experience reach (or should reach) deep into the infrastructure stack.
While tensions between interaction and infrastructure show up
throughout computing, in this talk I will focus specifically on
examples that arise from what I will call human-centered networking.
What if, in addition to "traditional" concerns such as scalability,
latency, and so forth, weapproached networking from human-centered
perspectives, such as understandability, maintainability, and
installability? In this talk I'll argue for how the existing
networking infrastructure impacts the interactive experience of
networking, and argue for why networking should be a domain for HCI
research. I will also present an overview of my group's work in this
area, focusing especially on networking in the home.

Host:

Prof. dr. scient Susanne Bødker
Department of Computer Science
Universityof Aarhus
+45 89425630