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HCI for Digital Civics 2018

Central to the Digital Civics agenda is a human-centred approach to designing digital services and technologies. This approach is exemplified by the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). HCI has developed over the last 30 years into a large research community studying how digital systems are designed to be usable,

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Introduction to Digital Civics 2017

This is the archived page for the 2017 course on Research Methods for Digital Civics.

Digital Civics is an emerging field of research that draws on a number of disciplinary perspectives including the social and political sciences, design, and computing- especially human-centred computing. This module will provide an introduction to digital civics by exploring some key topics from these various perspectives.

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Research Methods for Digital Civics 2017

This is the archived page for the 2017 course on Research Methods for Digital Civics.

It goes without saying that conducting research is focal to being an MRes / PhD student, but what does it actually mean to conduct ‘academic’ research? What are the principles that guide research methods and methodologies?  

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HCI for Digital Civics 2017

This is the archived page for the 2017 course on HCI for Digital Civics.

Central to the Digital Civics agenda is a human-centred approach to designing digital services and technologies. This approach is exemplified by the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). HCI has developed over the last 30 years into a large research community studying how digital systems are designed to be usable,

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