Topographies

On this page, you can access all the digital outputs of The Topography of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). We share the topography as open-access files under a CC0 license:

  • 3D scans of the clay sculptures
  • Contour maps in various formats
  • Source files and data for remixing and reuse

All files are hosted on GitHub under a CC0 license, so anyone in the HCI community — or beyond — can download, use, and adapt them freely. We encourage you to explore the topography, use it in your own work, or contribute ideas and improvements. Visit the GitHub Repository.

If you use or share these files, we’d love to hear about it! Please reach out or cite this project as shown below:

Dalsgaard, T.-S., & Cerna, K. (2025). The Topography of Human-Computer Interaction. Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR Adjunct 2025), 1–2. https://doi.org/10.1145/3737609.3747105

@inproceedings{10.1145/3737609.3747105,
  title = {The Topography of Human-Computer Interaction},
  booktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the Sixth Decennial Aarhus Conference: Computing X Crisis (AAR Adjunct 2025)},
  author = {Dalsgaard, Tor-Salve and Cerna, Katerina},
  year = {2025},
  month = aug,
  pages = {1--2},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  doi = {10.1145/3737609.3747105},
  isbn = {979-8-4007-1968-4},
  langid = {english}
}

Download the Topography

The Topography of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) is available for download in various versions and formats. All files are hosted on GitHub as open-access resources under a CC0 license.

Image of Pilot model

Pilot model

You can download our pilot model from GitHub. This model was used to create Figure 1 in our Aarhu...