Alma Leora Culén

• Culén, Alma Leora; Børsting, Jorun & Odom, William (2019). Mediating Relatedness for Adolescents with ME: Reducing Isolation through Minimal Interactions with a Robot Avatar, In  Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference.  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  ISBN 978-1-4503-5850-7.  31.  s 359 - 371
• Culén, Alma Leora & Gasparini, Andrea A. (2019). STEAM Education: Why Learn Design Thinking?, In Zehlia Babaci-Wilhite (ed.),  Promoting Language and STEAM as Human Rights in Education.  Springer.  ISBN 978-981-13-2879-4.  6.  s 91 - 108
• Børsting, Jorun & Culén, Alma Leora (2018). Youth with ME/CFS: Untangling Complexities in Technology Design to Support Everyday Living. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.  ISSN 1942-2679.  11(1&2), s 1- 12
• Pandey, Sumit & Culén, Alma Leora (2018). Eyespy: designing counterfunctional smart surveillance cameras, In Tone Bratteteig & Frode Eika Sandnes (ed.),  NordiCHI '18 - Proceedings of the 10th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Oslo, Norway — September 29 - October 03, 2018.  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  ISBN 978-1-4503-6437-9.  71.  s 838 - 843
• Srivastava, Swati & Culén, Alma Leora (2018). Transition-oriented Futuring: Integrated Design for Decreased Consumption amongst Millennials, In Cristiano Storni; Keelin Leahy; Muireann McMahon; Peter Lloyd & Erik Bohemia (ed.),  Proceedings of DRS 2018.  Design Research Society.  ISBN 978-1-912294-18-3.  Volume 3, Section 9.  s 927 - 940 Vis sammendrag

  This paper is concerned with the problem of overconsumption and opportunities to create alternative marketplaces that could ease the transition towards less, and different ways of consuming in everyday life. We argue that a more holistic view of the design context, multiple perspectives, and approaches, give more profound insights, explorations, and framings of the problem. Zygo, a future service for teens and young adults, based on the second-hand marketplace, illustrates our approach. Zygo challenges consumer lifestyles and provides a possibility for designing alternative practices around the use of everyday things. Repositioning the second-hand market as a scaffolding that supports and connects the youth in the transient, different and yet complementary phases of their lives, Zygo helps manage aspirations and needs of the youth, while raising awareness around consumption practices. Zygo is both an argument for an integrated design approach, drawing on service, system and interaction design, as well as social practice theory, and a designed proposal with the potential to promote transition design thinking.

• van der Velden, Maja; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Culén, Alma Leora (2018). Designed for Learning: Experiences with the intensive course format in informatics. NOKOBIT - Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi.  ISSN 1892-0748.  26(1) Vis sammendrag

  Bachelor and Master courses at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo are semester- long courses. Students and teaching staff meet two to four hours every week for lectures and group work. This was also the case in Design, Use, Interaction, a two-year master programme. In 2013 it became possible to teach intensive courses in this Master programme, creating an opportunity to implement three intensive courses successively in one semester. This resulted in the development of two intensive courses and the intensification of another course, which was normally taught as a semester-long course: Tangible Interaction Design, Advancements in Interaction Design, and Design, Technology & Society. Each course was five weeks long. In a presentation of each of the three courses, we will focus on the opportunities and challenges in teaching an intensive course. The main question we will address is: What are the characteristics of a successful intensive course? Based on a literature review, we have identified the following attributes that play a central role in the success of an intensive course: course methodology, teaching methods, exam format, and lecturer-student(s) interactions. We will present our experiences in teaching intensive courses along these four attributes. Our findings and discussion centre around our constructivist learning methodology, implemented through a wide variety of methods enabling creativity, hands-on experiences, theory-practice nexus, and critical reflexivity; new and adapted exam formats; and constructive lecturer-student interactions. While the experiences from the three courses are different, we were able to extract three common attributes for success: i) create a ‘learning home’ for the students, which provides them with a common understanding of the course methodology and enables them to identify their learning experiences; ii) actively work with the theory-practice nexus, using the theoretical literature as a lens to understand practice and practice to construct new knowledge; iii) cultivate constructive lecturer-student and student-student interactions both on an individual, group, and class level.

• Børsting, Jorun & Culén, Alma Leora (2017). Experiences with a Research Product: A Robot Avatar for Chronically Ill Adolescents, In Tomayess Issa; Piet Kommers; Theodora Issa; Pedro Isaías & Touma B. Issa (ed.),  Smart Technology Applications in Business Environments.  IGI Global.  ISBN 9781522524922.  8.  s 159 - 183
• Galewicz, Oskar & Culén, Alma Leora (2017). Co-creating Interactive Obstacles and DIY Skateboarding Spaces, In  Proceedings of the 12th Biannual Conference on Italian SIGCHI Chapter.  ACM Digital Library.  ISBN 978-1-4503-5237-6.  27. Vis sammendrag

  In this paper, we use research through design approach to introduce the skateboarding community to the maker's culture. Our goal was to provide an opportunity for skaters to experience sketching with technology, sharing ideas on making obstacles embedded with technology, executing one of the ideas and participating in envisioning co-created DIY (Do-It-Yourself) urban skateboarding spaces. In total, twenty-eight skateboarders were actively involved in the process of sketching, ideation, and subsequently making and evaluating a sound-based interactive skateboarding obstacle. The contributions of this paper include the framework for supporting maker activities for and with skateboarders, the artefact itself and the knowledge that emerged from its use in the appropriate urban environment. Finally, the highlights from interviews with twelve highly skilled skaters are provided. The analysis of the interviews resulted in the improvement of the initial framework that was based on the five key principles of creativity in everyday life. Furthermore, the skaters shared their reflections on the use of the obstacle, the making process, and speculated around the emergence of participatory maker culture within the community and possibilities to create urban environments that include creative DIY projects, such as the described one.

• Gasparini, Andrea A. & Culén, Alma Leora (2017). Openness and design Practices in Academic Libraries. International Journal of Multidisciplinarity in Business and Science.  ISSN 1849-0581.  3(4), s 76- 83 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Gasparini, Andrea & Culén, Alma Leora (2017). Temporality and innovation in digital humanities: The case of Papyri from Tebtunis. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s).  ISSN 1826-9745.  (34), s 161- 184
• Koplin, Martin; Siegert, Stephan; Neuvonen, Aura; Salo, Kari; Kerney, Kevin; Skelton, Carl; Culén, Alma Leora & Nadelkovski, Igor (2017). The Smart City as Shared Design Space, In Anastasia Stratigea; Elias Kyriakides & Chrysses Nicolaides (ed.),  Smart Cities in the Mediterranean Coping with Sustainability Objectives in Small and Medium-sized Cities and Island Communities.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-54557-8.  7.  s 153 - 174
• Pandey, Sumit & Culén, Alma Leora (2017). Hearsay: Speculative exploration of intelligent voice based interfaces. Nordic Design Research.  ISSN 1604-9705.  7(2017) Vis sammendrag

  In this paper, we present a reflective visual account of the process and outcome from a speculative research through design project – Hearsay. Through this account we unpack and present the conceptual, technical and material explorations that guided our design process. Further, using this mode of reflective visual articulation, we contribute to interaction design research by highlighting potential possibilities and problematics for design within the emergent space of intelligent voice based interfaces.

• Srivastava, Swati & Culén, Alma Leora (2017). Designing for the Second-Hand Use of Consumer Goods, In Katherine Blashki (ed.),  International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2017, Lisbon, Portugal, 21 – 23 July 2017.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-64-7.  24.  s 193 - 204 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Børsting, Jorun & Culén, Alma Leora (2016). A Robot Avatar: Easier Access to Education and Reduction in Isolation?, In Mário Macedo (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on E-Health 2016.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-53-1.  Artikkel.  s 34 - 44 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Børsting, Jorun & Culén, Alma Leora (2016). Sense-Making in Complex Healthcare Domains: The Role of Technology in Every Day Lives of Youth Suffering from ME/CFS, In Marike Hettinga; Alma Leora Culén; Lisette Van Gemert-Pijnen; Anne G. Ekeland; Trine Strand Bergmo; Paolo Perego; Maurizio Caon; Cristiana Degano; Piero Giacomelli & Kari Dyb (ed.),  eTELEMED 2016, The Eighth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine and Social Medicine.  International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA).  ISBN 978-1-61208-470-1.  42.  s 236 - 242 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Børsting, Jorun; Culén, Alma Leora & Eike, Morten Christoph (2016). Aiding genetic analysts: Design of a literature evaluation system. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information System.  ISSN 1646-3692.  11, s 1- 16 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Eilertsen, Ingeborg; Lægreid, Lone; Pandey, Sumit; Søyland, Magnus & Viddal, Ingrid Smørgrav (2016). Eco-A: Children's Engagement in Environmental and Climate Issues, In Katherine Blashki & Yingcai Xiao (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2016.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-52-4.  Artikkel.  s 76 - 84 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Følstad, Asbjørn (2016). Preface: Innovation in HCI- What Can We Learn from Design Thinking?. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s).  ISSN 1826-9745.  27, s 109- 114 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Gasparini, Andrea A.; Minaříková, Pavla; Novotný, Roman; Pandey, Sumit & Zbiejczuk Suchá, Ladislava (2016). When Designers are Non-designers: Open Endedness vs. Structure of Design Tools, In Katherine Blashki & Yingcai Xiao (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2016.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-52-4.  Artikkel.  s 3 - 11 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Rosseland, Rune B & Culén, Alma Leora (2016). RepMoves: Stories that a rhythmic interaction device for seniors can tell. IADIS International Journal on Computer Science and Information System.  ISSN 1646-3692.  11(2), s 104- 118 Vis sammendrag

  There is currently an ongoing debate within HCI community regarding the legitimacy of design objects as producers and carriers of knowledge. This paper takes a Research through Design methodological approach to making such an object, RepMoves, with a purpose to explore its use and usefulness and demonstrate how new knowledge can arise while exploring and experimenting with design objects. In this paper, RepMoves is used to address rhythmic and repetitive bodily interaction with music as a welfare technology concept for senior citizens with cognitive difficulties related to the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, and in one example, an individual with Parkinson. We show how RepMoves interface was adapted for use in each of these cases, how movements and interfaces were changed, and most importantly, RepMoves' potential to generate knowledge and research opportunities.

• van der Velden, Maja; Sommervold, Margaret Machniak; Culén, Alma Leora & Nakstad, Britt (2016). Designing Interactive Technologies with Teenagers in a Hospital Setting, In Linda Little; Daniel Fitton; Beth Bell & Nicola Toth (ed.),  Perspectives on HCI Research with Teenagers.  Springer Publishing Company.  ISBN 978-3-319-33450-9.  5.  s 103 - 131 Vis sammendrag

  This chapter describes a design process with teenagers with chronic health challenges. The design activities were related to two main themes, the transition from paediatrics to adult healthcare and patient-oriented social networking, and were implemented with a group of young patients who were members of the Youth Council, an advisory body to the hospital. We describe two design strategies, Design Stations and Continuous Participation Platform. Design Stations facilitate a design process that uses the time with the teens effectively and caters also to the teens’ creativity and attention span. The Continuous Participation Platform contributes to maintaining consistency and continuity between the Design Station meetings. The process consisted of four design workshops, which took place in a hospital, and online activities in between these workshops. Nine small research projects were implemented, using a range of diverse participatory methods and tools. In the chapter we analyse and discuss the results using the SHARM framework, our Participatory Design methodology for designing with and for teenagers with chronic health challenges. SHARM focuses on situation-based action, having a say, adaptability, respect, and mutual learning. We found that our participants switch between their identity as a patient and as a teenager. Building and strengthening a third identity, namely that of a co-designer, may further improve the design efforts when designing with this particular group of participants.

• Børsting, Jorun; Culén, Alma Leora & Eike, Morten Christoph (2015). Design of a Reference Handling System for Clinical DNA Sequencing Analysis, In Mário Macedo; Claire Gauzente; Miguel Baptista Nunes & Guo Chao Peng (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Health 2015.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-42-5.  Kapittel.  s 79 - 87 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2015). HCI Education: Innovation, Creativity and Design Thinking, In Leslie Miller & Alma Leora Culén (ed.),  ACHI 2015, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-382-7.  Kapittel.  s 125 - 130 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Innovation and Creativity in the HCI classroom. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.  ISSN 1942-2679.  8(3&4), s 300- 309 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Later Life: Living Alone, Social Connectedness and ICT, In Vincent G. Duffy (ed.),  Digital Human Modeling - Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management: Ergonomics and Health.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-21069-8.  Kapittel.  s 401 - 412 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Gasparini, Andrea A. (2015). HCI and Design Thinking: Effects on Innovation in the Academic Library, In Piet Kommers & Pedro Isaías (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conferences on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2015, Game and Entertainment Technologies 2015 and Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing 2015.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-38-8.  kapittel.  s 3 - 10 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Pandey, Sumit; Srivastava, Swati & Coughlin, Katie (2015). Can Games Motivate Urban Youth for Civic Engagement?, In Panayiotis Zaphiris & Andri Ioannou (ed.),  Learning and Collaboration Technologies.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-20608-0.  Kapittel 1.  s 1 - 12 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv. Vis sammendrag

  In this paper, we explore the possibility of using games as a way of engaging youth in environmentally-oriented participatory art or other cooperative urban projects. Our approach was design-led, and youth participated in evaluating games that we proposed from the perspective of motivation and engagement, both in the environmental issues in the games themselves and in the likelihood of subsequent real life involvement stimulated by the games. The findings show that ultimately, personal passion for the cause that the game represents, and not the game itself, would be the central factor in a youth’s decision to engage in real life. Social embeddedness was also valued high, as well as the possibility to make a real difference.

• Culén, Alma Leora & van der Velden, Maja (2015). Making Context Specific Card Sets - A Visual Methodology Approach: Capturing User Experiences with Urban Public Transportation. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.  ISSN 1942-2679.  8(1&2), s 17- 26 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• van der Velden, Maja; Sommervold, Margaret Machniak & Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Patient-Initiated Personalisation: Privacy, Moods and Colours, In Mário Macedo; Claire Gauzente; Miguel Baptista Nunes & Guo Chao Peng (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on e-Health 2015.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-42-5.  E-Health.  s 95 - 103 Vis sammendrag

  Personalisation can improve the acceptability and prolonged use of a product. This paper reports on the use of colours in user-initiated personalisation of privacy settings and a mood tracker. Colours and their associations were discussed in participatory design activities with young patients (13-21 years old) in a children's hospital in Canada and in Norway and explored in a survey among university students. Colours are an effective way to personalise data. The young patients preferred to select their own colours for the personalisation of data and that colour associations and preferences should be re-configurable during the use of the technology. We found that in the case of the privacy settings that re-configuration could lead to privacy risks. We illustrate our findings by presenting two prototypes we designed with and for young people with chronic health challenges. The first one shows the use of colours in privacy settings in a social networking site for teenage patients and the second one shows the use of colours in the mood tracking function of a mobile application supporting teens in their transition to adult health care.

• Culén, Alma Leora (2014). Scaffolding Sustainability in the Academic HCID Practice, In Katherine Blaskhi & Yingcai Xiao (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-22-7.  kapittel.  s 45 - 53 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2014). Visual Immediacy for Sense-making in HCI, In Katherine Blaskhi & Yingcai Xiao (ed.),  Proceedings of the International Conference on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-989-8533-22-7.  kapittel.  s 265 - 270 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Finken, Sisse (2014). A Skirt for Well Aged Ladies with Cognitive Loss, In Constantine Stephanidis & Margherita Antona (ed.),  Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Design and Development Methods for Universal Access.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-07436-8.  kapittel.  s 325 - 336
• Culén, Alma Leora; Finken, Sisse & Gasparini, Andrea (2014). iCONFESS Mirroring Digital Self-Disclosure in a Physical Booth, In Gabriele Meiselwitz (ed.),  Social Computing and Social Media 6th International Conference, SCSM 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014. Proceedings.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-07632-4.  kapittel.  s 430 - 439
• Culén, Alma Leora & Følstad, Asbjørn (2014). Innovation in HCI: what can we learn from design thinking?, In Thomas Olsson & Ebba Þóra Hvannberg (ed.),  NordiCHI '14 : Proceedings of the 8th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Fun, Fast, Foundational, Oct 26-30 2014, Helsinki, Finland.  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  ISBN 978-1-4503-2542-4.  artikkel.  s 849 - 852 Vis sammendrag

  Design thinking, a methodology originating from the design disciplines, oriented towards problem solving through a human-centered approach, rapid prototyping and abductive reasoning, has huge impact on innovation in business, education, health and other crucial domains. Many similarities, and differences, can be found between design thinking and a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design approach to innovation. The aim of the workshop is to explore these similarities and differences, with a goal of re-thinking possibilities, including combining practices towards increased impact of HCI in shaping innovative technologies for the future.

• Culén, Alma Leora & Gasparini, Andrea A. (2014). Find a Book! Unpacking Customer Journeys at Academic Library, In Leslie Miller & Alma Leora Culén (ed.),  ACHI 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-325-4.  kapittel.  s 89 - 95
• Culén, Alma Leora & Kriger, Mark P. (2014). Creating Competitive Advantage in IT-Intensive Organizations: A Design Thinking Perspective, In  HCI in Business.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-319-07292-0.  kapittel.  s 492 - 503
• Culén, Alma Leora; Mainsah, Henry & Finken, Sisse (2014). Design Practice in Human Computer Interaction Design Education, In Leslie Miller & Alma Leora Culén (ed.),  ACHI 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-325-4.  kapittel.  s 300 - 306 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Mainsah, Henry & Finken, Sisse (2014). Design, Creativity and Human Computer Interaction Design Education. International Journal on Advances in Life Sciences.  ISSN 1942-2660.  6(3&4), s 97- 106
• Culén, Alma Leora & Rosseland, Rune Børge (2014). Ecologies of Spaces for Enjoyable Interactions. International Journal on Advances in Intelligent Systems.  ISSN 1942-2679.  3&4(7), s 361- 373
• Culén, Alma Leora; van der Velden, Maja & Herstad, Jo (2014). Travel Experience Cards: Capturing User Experiences in Public Transportation, In Leslie Miller & Alma Leora Culén (ed.),  ACHI 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-325-4.  kapittel.  s 72 - 78
• Finken, Sisse; Culén, Alma Leora & Gasparini, Andrea (2014). Nurturing Creativity: Assemblages in HCI Design Practices, In Kristina Niedderer (ed.),  Proceedings of DRS 2014: Design's big debates. Design Research Society Biennal international conference 16-19 June 2014.  Design Research Society.  ISBN 978-91-7601-068-6.  kapittel.  s 1204 - 1217 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Gasparini, Andrea A. & Culén, Alma Leora (2014). University library as a living lab: innovating with students. International Journal of Multidisciplinarity in Business and Science.  ISSN 1849-0581.  2(2), s 20- 25
• Karahasanovic, Amela & Culén, Alma Leora (2014). Can HCI Education Benefit From Design Thinking?, In Alma Leora Culén & Asbjørn Følstad (ed.),  Innovation in HCI: what can we learn from design thinking?.  IFI.  ISBN 978-82-7368-407-3.  Kapittel.  s 19 - 22
• Kriger, Mark P. & Culén, Alma Leora (2014). IT-facilitated industries and competitive spaces: the dance of the elephants. International Journal of Multidisciplinarity in Business and Science.  ISSN 1849-0581.  2(2), s 62- 67
• Rosseland, Rune Børge; Culén, Alma Leora & Berge, Snorre (2014). Publicly Displayed Interactive Installations: Where Do They Work Best?, In Leslie Miller & Alma Leora Culén (ed.),  ACHI 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-325-4.  kapittel.  s 1 - 8
• Culén, Alma Leora; Bratteteig, Tone; Pandey, Sumit & Srivastava, Swati (2013). Child-to-Child (C2C): Design of Interactive 3D Book Space for Children's Museum, In Katherine Blashki (ed.),  Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction 2013.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-972-8939-90-8.  kapittel.  s 11 - 20 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Bratteteig, Tone; Pandey, Sumit & Srivastava, Swati (2013). The Child-to-Child (C2C) Method: Participatory Design for, with and by Children in a Children's Museum. IADIS International Journal on WWW/Internet.  ISSN 1645-7641.  11(2), s 92- 113 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Gasparini, Andrea A. (2013). Student Driven Innovation: Designing University Library Services, In Lasse Berntzen & Stephan Böhm (ed.),  ThinkMind - CENTRIC 2013, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Human oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services.  International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA).  ISBN 978-1-61208-306-3.  3.  s 12 - 17
• Culén, Alma & Bratteteig, Tone (2013). Touch-Screens and Elderly users: A Perfect Match?, In Leslie Miller (ed.),  ACHI 2013, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  IARIA.  ISBN 978-1-61208-250-9.  kapittel.  s 460 - 465
• Culén, Alma; Finken, Sisse & Bratteteig, Tone (2013). Design and Interaction in a Smart Gym: Cognitive and Bodily Mastering, In Andreas Holzinger; Martina Ziefle; Martin Hitz & Matjaz Debevc (ed.),  Human Factors in Computing and Informatics.  Springer-Verlag.  ISBN 978-3-642-39061-6.  Designing for Situated Elderliness.  s 609 - 616 Vis sammendrag

  Being physically active is perhaps the most important factor influencing the health of elderly people. As a consequence, technologies that support and encourage physical activity have been developed. In this paper, we study a “smart gym” in a residential care building. Our findings indicate that the “smart gym” does not address the complexities of exercise for an elderly person: in order to exercise one has to master the gym equipment and its technology, cognitively as well as bodily. Both the equipment and the smart technology turn out to be difficult to master by its elderly users. Our study reports these difficulties and suggests a more nuanced concept of mastery as a way to address the challenges in designing for elderly users. We unfold physical and bodily dimensions of mastery and consider how these differ between individuals, and within the context and situation.

• Culén, Alma; Joshi, Suhas Govind & Abdelhakeem, Atif (2013). HCID: Who is an interaction designer?, In Janne Beate Reitan; Peter Lloyd; Erik Bohemia; Liv Merete Nielsen; Ingvild Digranes & Eva Lutnæs (ed.),  Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference for Design Education Researchers 14-17 May 2013, Oslo, Norway.  ABM-media AS.  ISBN 978-82-93298-00-7.  Vol. 4.  s 1924 - 1937 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma & van der Velden, Maja (2013). The digital life of vulnerable users: designing with children, patients, and elderly, In Margunn Aanestad & Tone Bratteteig (ed.),  Nordic Contributions in IS Research : 4th Scandinavian Conference on Information Systems, SCIS 2013, Oslo, Norway, August 11-14, 2013. Proceedings.  Springer.  ISBN 978-3-642-39831-5.  4.  s 53 - 71
• Gasparini, Andrea & Culén, Alma (2013). The iPad in a Classroom: A Cool Personal Item or Simply an Educational Tool?, In Leslie Miller (ed.),  ACHI 2013, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  IARIA.  ISBN 978-1-61208-250-9.  kapittel.  s 204 - 209 Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Karpova, Anna & Culén, Alma (2013). Challenges in Designing an App for a Special Education Class, In Katherine Blashki (ed.),  Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference on Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction 2013.  IADIS Press.  ISBN 978-972-8939-90-8.  12.  s 95 - 102
• van der Velden, Maja & Culén, Alma Leora (2013). Information Visibility in Public Transportation Smart Card Ticket Systems. International Journal On Advances in Networks and Services.  ISSN 1942-2644.  6(3&4), s 188- 197
• van der Velden, Maja; Culén, Alma; Herstad, Jo & Abdelhakeem, Atif (2013). Networked Visibility: The case of smart card ticket information, In Leslie Miller (ed.),  ACHI 2013, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions.  IARIA.  ISBN 978-1-61208-250-9.  kapittel.  s 228 - 233
• Culén, Alma & Gasparini, Andrea (2012). Situated Techno-Cools: factors that contribute to making technology cool in a given context of use. PsychNology Journal.  ISSN 1720-7525.  10(2), s 117- 139

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• Culén, Alma Leora; Miller, Leslie; Giannopulu, Irini & Gersbeck-Schierholz, Birgit (ed.) (2016). ACHI 2016, The Ninth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-468-8.  457 s.
• Hettinga, Marike; Culén, Alma Leora; Van Gemert-Pijnen, Lisette; Ekeland, Anne G.; Bergmo, Trine Strand; Perego, Paolo; Caon, Maurizio; Degano, Cristiana; Giacomelli, Piero & Dyb, Kari (ed.) (2016). eTELEMED 2016, The Eighth International Conference on eHealth, Telemedicine and Social Medicine. International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA).  ISBN 978-1-61208-470-1.  293 s.
• Miller, Leslie & Culén, Alma Leora (ed.) (2015). ACHI 2015, The Eighth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-382-7.  246 s.
• Miller, Leslie & Culén, Alma Leora (ed.) (2014). ACHI 2014, The Seventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. ThinkMind.  ISBN 978-1-61208-325-4.  394 s.

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• Børsting, Jorun & Culén, Alma Leora (2019). SlowBreath: First-Person Research for Self-Management of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. Vis sammendrag

  This paper gives an account of a first-person research and sensory experiences of a researcher making an artefact called SlowBreath. SlowBreath is an interactive cushion featuring heath and warmth, combined with meditative, relaxing, rhythmical vibrations. It is intended as a tool that supports energy balancing, a critical component of self-management for those with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME). In contrast to approaches that focus on users’ needs, the researcher has designed the artefact by exploring different combinations and dynamics of materials, forms, and computational expressions, guided by own aesthetic judgments, focusing primarily on meditative and bodily experiences generated when using SlowBreath. Only when the researcher was satisfied with experiences, people with ME were to use SlowBreath for energy balancing, and minimizing of sensory input, to reduce the chances for illness-specific over-exertion, that can have a negative impact on their health, i.e., further research with users focused on the use, not design.

• Culén, Alma Leora & Børsting, Jorun (2019). Community Involvement in Social Innovation for Health. Vis sammendrag

  Many communities, on and off-line, are engaged in communication and exchange regarding challenges concerning their health. Sometimes, their health conditions are chronic, long-term, or still, a scientific challenge in terms of understanding their causes, as is the case with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) - a condition that reduces normal functioning by at least 50%, and for which self-management is the most frequent approach to symptoms containment. For many such communities, digital solutions are limited, insufficient or inadequate, as tech firms that develop such solutions are un-incentivized (at the design phase) to learn the socio-cultural terrains of where they deploy their technological tools. However, there is a growing tendency to include and activate communities in design and co-design for social innovation in general, and for health in particular. We base our position (and interest in this workshop) on our research and experiences from the fieldwork with ME communities, including the ME patient association, youth association, and communities providing support to those with ME.

• Culén, Alma Leora & Katie, Coughlin (2018). Exhibiting Speculative Installations Concerned with Current Social Issues at Events for Children. Vis sammendrag

  This paper is concerned with installations as a mode to engage children and youth in discussion of current, serious issues that affect the world we live in. We use critical and speculative approach in design of installations. These installations are made possible through cross-sectional collaboration between a children’s museum and academic research and design. The collaboration has been built over a long period, nearing its 12th anniversary. We consider it to be a sustainable cross-sectional practice, delivering fresh content to the city’s youngest (4-15 years of age) every fall. Over 30 collaborative projects have been implemented so far, and only a portion of them are interactive installations of the kind we address in this paper. They represent work at the intersection between technology, art, design and, as we try to communicate in this paper, society. This paper describes our theoretical and practical approach, grounded in Research through Design. The installations cater to families as the audience, thus, also include parents as active participants and as helpers to their children to understand and interpret activities and provoke reflections on matters of concern, such as immigration policies, city violence, sustainability and the like. Two installations are chosen to illustrate our approach. The first one uses a dystopian scenario, where the Earth is increasingly polluted and outbreaks of violence and terror are an everyday occurrence. However, it is possible to relocate from Earth to the beautiful planet Axzaylia, but only if a person’s DNA is deemed acceptable by a computer system. The second installation focuses on climate changes and how the children can understand them and further work with this understanding. Together, the installations illustrate opportunities for Human-Computer Interaction design to, through speculative and provocative design, engage children in political and civic issues and move from matters of children’s needs (neither installation is utilitarian or needs oriented in any way) to matters of concern to their future.

• Srivastava, Swati & Culén, Alma Leora (2018). Transition‐oriented Futuring: Integrated Design for Decreased Consumption amongst Millennials.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Galewicz, Oskar (2017). Smart Skating Spaces for Smart Cities.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Stuedahl, Dagny (2017). Preface 'Temporalities of Engagement: challenges of co-design in public spaces'. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s).  ISSN 1826-9745.  34, s 113- 117
• Culén, Alma Leora & Stuedahl, Dagny (2017). Temporalities of engagement in design for public spaces. ID&A Interaction design & architecture(s).  ISSN 1826-9745.  (34), s 113- 117
• Culén, Alma Leora; Zivkovic, Masa & Barisa, Borisa (2017). Emigrate to Axzaliya, Speculative design exhibit.
• Pandey, Sumit & Culén, Alma Leora (2017). Hearsay: Speculative Exploration of Intelligent Voice Based Interfaces. Vis sammendrag

  In this paper, we present a reflective visual account of the process and outcome from a speculative research through design project – Hearsay. Through this account we unpack and present the conceptual, technical and material explorations that guided our design process. Further, using this mode of reflective visual articulation, we contribute to interaction design research by highlighting potential possibilities and problematics for design within the emergent space of intelligent voice based interfaces.

• Culén, Alma Leora & Gasparini, Andrea A. (2016). Design Thinking Processes: Card Methodologies for Non-designers, In Pavla Minaříková & Ladislava Zbiejczuk Suchá (ed.),  Librarians as Designers: Case Studies on Improvement of Library Services.  MUNI Press.  ISBN 978-80-210-8360-8.  7.  s 71 - 83
• Culén, Alma Leora; Murad, Hani & Stuedahl, Dagny (2016). Temporalities and Spaces for Youth Engagement in Co-Creative Activities, In Morten Fjeld & Susanne Bødker (ed.),  Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, NordiCHI '16.  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).  ISBN 978-1-4503-4763-1.  144.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Pandey, Sumit (2016). Share Infinity Oslo.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Pandey, Sumit; Koplin, Martin; Siegert, Stephan & Coughlin, Katie (2016). Participatory Cultures: Making Annotated Portfolios.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Srivastava, Swati & Pandey, Sumit (2016). Temporalities and Spaces for Engagement in Design Activities.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Digital Media and HCI: Ways of Knowing and Producing Knowledge.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Dilemmas regarding sustainable design from the perspective of HCI: efficiency and its effects. Vis sammendrag

  The technology is perceived as an essential element of the infrastructure of competitive economies and a key enabler of economic growth. However, the competitive economies are not on a sustainable trajectory also concerning design and development of new technologies, in particular, ICT. Design and development of ICT are fast-paced. The innovation in the field is driven by diverse factors (technology, markets, users, design etc.), and is considered to be either an improvement over previous solutions, or a disruptive, breakthrough innovation. The latter kind often causes large, well-established firms to fall because they fail to adopt such technologies or adopt them too late. These innovation activities, coupled with consumerism, are responsible for overuse and problematic use of resources (e.g., coltan that is used in lap-tops, mobile phones, jet engines and game consoles among other products) and e-waste generation, where both the amount of waste and its toxicity for humans and their environment are problematic. Since Blevis’s seminal paper from 2007 that introduced sustainability to the HCI community, the sustainable HCI research has grown significantly. Initially, the field was preoccupied with how to use the technology to make a desired social change. The appeal to an individual’s sense of efficiency (doing things right, making the appropriate behavior changes) through the use of persuasive technologies was made. The strategy turned out to be ineffective, also in Ackoff’s sense of not being wise, posing dilemmas about how to truly make changes for the better. The question of the scale was brought forth in Durishe’s work. Dourish recognized that the traditional HCI discourse obscures political and cultural contexts of environmental practice that must be part of an effective solution. Questions were asked: why does consumerism have such a stronghold and why do people continue to make environmentally harmful choices? It became clear that mechanisms beyond awareness and scale needed to be in place for people to make right choices. Also, even if they did, could the field resolve the intrinsic paradox of being in a business of research and design of new technologies? Voices, supporting a focus on collapse informatics or self-obliviating systems and less technology, became audible. Dilemmas continue to arise on how to design for more sustainable future related to technology design.

• Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Rigor and Relevance: Knowledge Production in Interaction Design.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Coughlin, Katie (2015). Living Labbing in a Museum: Forstering Active Engagement and Creativity.
• Culén, Alma Leora; Murad, Hani & Stuedahl, Dagny (2015). Youth Participatory Cultures: a CSCW perspective. Vis sammendrag

  Designing innovative participatory and collaborative spaces that enhance awareness and mobilize to engagement amongst Urban European youth is a challenge. This workshop aims to discuss opportunities for collaborative methods and other tools of the trade within the CSCW, to help increase engagement and participation in civic, leisure and cultural activities among urban youth. The goal of the proposed workshop is twofold: to discuss experiences with diverse methods and approaches from ongoing European projects, and to discuss the role of digital and material artefacts in building environments that support, motivate, engage and mobilize collaboration with urban youth in participatory culture processes.

• Culén, Alma Leora & Pandey, Sumit (2015). Unge Urbane Uttrykk - Children's City Tapestry.
• Gasparini, Andrea A. & Culén, Alma Leora (2015). The Position of the User Experience in the Academic Library.
• Murad, Hani & Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Scaffolding maker-centered practices in HCI education.
• Pandey, Sumit & Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Design Thinking: Bridging the gap between organizational innovation and organizational acceptance in public libraries.
• Srivastava, Swati & Culén, Alma Leora (2015). Design to Conserve and Consume. Vis sammendrag

  In today’s consumption-based economy, the mass-market business strategies are carefully crafted for fast product absorption and long term consumer engagement with the brand. These consumption oriented market practices are offering purchase options with attractive buying experiences to improve their quality of life the environmental impact of these products and services has become a threat to the very quality of consumer life, which they advertise to improve. With the increasing awareness of the effects of unsustainable services on the environment and society, there has been a rise in efforts by companies and communities towards bringing sustainable services in practice. While this has initiated a positive trend towards a green consumption economy, these business model lack the appeal of their unsustainable yet mass market counterparts. Despite the existing demand for sustainable products and services, such services are still largely limited to niche and/or premium market segments - stemming from environmentally conscious consumers. Product demand and high consumption have been traditionally viewed as traits of successful business. On the contrary sustainable solutions aim to alter the consumption driven processes and reducing the harmful impact on the environment. This situation poses an interesting dilemma for designer of these services. The intent of making a sustainable solution a mass-market phenomenon challenges the fundamental ethos of the mass market itself. However, recent trends also suggest a growing interest in product service systems which are described as “system of products, services, networks of players and supporting infrastructure that continuously strives to be competitive, satisfy customer needs”. We intend to investigate through our literature review if service focused business models can achieve an environmentally efficient yet profitable mass market positioning. Can product service systems serve as potential areas of disruptive innovation for sustainable entrepreneurship? Further, we examine a theoretical framework grounded in three primary aspects - Design Thinking, Sustainable Entrepreneurship and User Experience Design as key drivers for the creation of mass-market sustainable services. We consider Design Thinking as an approach for working with this problem area, Sustainable entrepreneurship (centered on product service systems) as the underlying vision and User Experience Design as the potential area of innovation. We review the literature of these aspects to understand their historical and current models and suggest theoretically evaluate their potential contribution to the problem space.

• Culén, Alma Leora (2014). Creating Competitive Advantage in IT-Intensive Organizations: HCI and Design Thinking Perspectives.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2014). Innovation: Design Thinking and HCI Perspectives.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2014). The Children´s City Tapistery.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Følstad, Asbjørn (ed.) (2014). Innovation in HCI: what can we learn from design thinking?. Conference proceedings (Universitetet i Oslo. Institutt for informatikk). 1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv.
• Culén, Alma Leora & Karpova, Anna (2014). Designing with Vulnerable Children: a Researchers Perspective, In Pedro Isaías & Katherine Blashki (ed.),  Human-Computer Interfaces and Interactivity.  IGI Global.  ISBN 978-1-4666-6228-5.  Chapter 7.  s 118 - 136
• Eike, Morten Christoph; Skorve, Espen; Håndstad, Tony; Fontenelle, Hugues; Børsting, Jorun; Aanestad, Margunn; Culén, Alma Leora; Grünfeld, Thomas & Undlien, Dag Erik (2014). GenAP workbench: aiding variant classification in clinical diagnostic settings.
• Gasparini, Andrea A. & Culén, Alma Leora (2014). Brukeren bestemmer? Innovasjon i det akademiske biblioteket.
• Culén, Alma (2013). Fremtidens klasserom - hvordan kan design og teknologi bidra til læring.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2013). Designing exhibits with and for children: living labing in a museum.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2013). Designing for and with Children.
• Culén, Alma; van der Velden, Maja & Karpova, Anna (2013). Challenges in Designing Learning Apps for and with Vulnerable Children. Vis sammendrag

  In this paper, some challenges in designing for and with vulnerable children, focusing primarily on touch-based interactions with personal artefacts such as tablets, are discussed. The basis for discussion is our experience with an iPad learning application design for a special education class consisting of only six elementary school students. Even for such a small group of students, it was difficult to find an appropriate common learning activity, and consequently design a learning app that could be used in the classroom, benefiting all. Designing with this vulnerable group is complicated by variety of ways in which these children have special needs and how children’s vulnerabilities around those are manifested. Some of the main challenges we met were how to adapt our techniques and methods to working with this user group, primarily in strenghtening their voice in the design process, how to interpret children’s behaviours correctly and how to best handle increased ethical concerns.

• van der Velden, Maja & Culén, Alma (2013). Designing Privacy with Teenage Patients: Methodological Challenges.
• Culén, Alma (2012). Transforming Children´s Museums by Designing Exhibits with Children.
• Culén, Alma Leora (2012). UX@IFI.
• Culén, Alma & Bratteteig, Tone (2012). Touch interfaces for elderly: some design challenges.

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