The Centre for Human-Computer Interaction Design (HCID) is a collective endeavour. Between us—through our design-based research, teaching and commercial work—we strive to make a difference. Paying attention to the ways technologies intermingle with life, we are spurred on by the possibilities of enlarging human capacity and creating the conditions for better ways of living together.

A Working

Charter

To study people and settings with a commitment to understanding the fullness of the lived experience.

To design responsibly, and to be responsive to the capacities of those we are designing for.

To intervene in ways that open up the possibilities and that invite a flourishing of difference.

To care for those we work for and with, in full recognition of the tensions that come with being careful and caring.

Studies
							Looking outwards, to the worlds we engage with and study, our commitment is to
							improving people’s health, welfare, and security, and, at the same time,
							upholding rights to equity, fun, prosperity, fairness, justice and collective
							determination. Working inventively with empirical and human-centred design
							methods, our scholarly practices aim to enrich and deepen our understandings of
							those living in technology-mediated worlds.
						
Design
							Our studies are distinguished by their commitment to designing interactions and
							experiences that enable transparency, accessibility, and full representation.
							Guiding the design research we do are participatory and co-design methods that
							redistribute the authority and power of who designs for whom, and who decides
							the technology-mediated worlds that are possible. This is an additive project,
							where design becomes a way to bring more people and more ideas to the table.
						
Intervention
							Co-designing interactions and experiences, we seek to intervene in the role
							technologies play in routine life. Our interventions address the politics
							inherent in designing technology, aiming to raise questions of presumed norms,
							and to create the conditions for more to happen and difference to flourish.
							Design intervention becomes the vehicle for co-imagining alternative worlds, for
							a collective adventure in making worlds otherwise.
						
Care
							Among ourselves, our collective investment in studies, design and intervention
							are shaped by practices of care. We seek to build an environment in which a care
							for one another and the care for our labour isn’t diminished or erased in our
							work. Asking seriously “how do we work together?” demands an awareness of the
							precarity and unevenness of our relations, but also what more we are capable of.
							Our aim is to be responsive to and responsible for our practices of care,
							holding open the possibilities for working well together, and being alive to and
							affected by our collective world-making work.
						


							Together, our Centre’s studies, design research, and interventionist
							orientation, and our collective practices of care, set the stage for a
							transformative experiment. We believe in the modest but still generative
							capacities of technology to make worlds more liveable - to enable greater
							capacities, to make possible human and nonhuman flourishing, to sow the seeds of
							plurality, to multiply and amplify voices, and so on — but we are steadfast in
							the commitments needed to learn again (and again) what that better is and how to
							get there.
						