Interactions - November/December 2014

Desiring a better future is the fuel of research and practice in HCI and interaction design. Informing ourselves deeply and honing our
passions form the compass that directs
us to where we want to go and how
we might get there. Liz Sanders and
Pieter Jan Stappers’s cover story,
“From Designing to Co-Designing to
Collective Dreaming: Three Slices
in Time,” charts the past 30 years
of our field with a keen and well-
grounded perspective. The authors
then venture 30 years forward to bend
the trajectories of our past and present
toward a desired future. This future
is infused by participatory design
in a way that progressively reframes
many of our assumptions. Sanders
and Stappers guide us through three
eras of design and technology—1984,

2014, and 2044—with the aim of inspiring change.

This year, ACM and Interactions

are reaching out to the 2,000-plus HCI researchers and practitioners who attend HCIK 2015, the Human Computer Interaction Korea conference ( http://hcikorea.sql.co.kr/ hcik2015_e/), which will be held in Seoul from December 10–12, 2014.

We will send complimentary issues
to the conference and be on hand to
seek contributions from and promote
better awareness of the vibrant
Korean research and practice HCI
communities. Our field has grown
immensely over the past decade to
become a global phenomenon, with
many large pockets and distinct
approaches to HCI and interaction
design. We want to represent and
communicate the commonalities,
differences, and diversity of our
approaches; this is one more step in
that direction. If you see a group among
your local, regional, and national
communities for us to “interact” with,
please let us know! We would like to see
similar efforts elsewhere.