I will be co-hosting a workshop at CHI 2013 in Paris in April on “Explorations in Social Interaction Design”. As computing moves into the background and social media pervade everyday life, we need in HCI a broader vocabulary and additional resources for designing with socially generated data in ways that are rich, meaningful and sustainable.…… Continue reading Upcoming workshop at CHI 2013

It is quite hard to believe but I have already been working at Sheffield Hallam University and living in Sheffield for over one month. It has been a very exciting time, both with the discovery of the city and surrounding area and with getting to know my colleagues and new academic home. Everyone is very…… Continue reading Of New Things

I am delighted to announce that on December 1st I will take on a new position as Reader of Communications at Sheffield Hallam University (UK). I will be based at C3RI, the Cultural Communication and Computing Research Institute, in the Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Science. Within the Institute, I will be a member…… Continue reading A New Chapter

Now that the hype has died down and I had some time to recover, it’s about time I write something about the mind-blowing experience that has been “Magic Is Might 2012”, the conference that Gráinne O’Brien of the Department of Sociology and myself organised here at UL a couple of weeks ago. I say mind-blowing…… Continue reading The Might of Magic

We have extended the submission deadline to the special issue we are preparing for the CSCW Journal as part of the NWL Project. Full Call for papers is below! CSCW Journal Special Issue: Work Practices, Nomadicity and the Mediational Role of Technology Special issue editors: Luigina Ciolfi (Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick, Luigina.Ciolfi@ul.ie) Ap. Fabiano Pinatti…… Continue reading CfP JCSCW Special Issue: Work Practices, Nomadicity and the Mediational Role of Technology