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!

Citation

You can cite the project through these citations:

Tor-Salve Dalsgaard and Katerina Cerna. 2026. The Topography of Human-Computer Interaction. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ‘26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 866, 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799112

@inproceedings{10.1145/3772363.3799112,
  author = {Dalsgaard, Tor-Salve and Cerna, Katerina},
  title = {The Topography of Human-Computer Interaction},
  year = {2026},
  isbn = {9798400722813},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3799112},
  doi = {10.1145/3772363.3799112},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  articleno = {866},
  numpages = {4},
  keywords = {Human-Computer Interaction, Community, Topography},
  series = {CHI EA '26}
}

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}
}