Special Design United Sponsored Research Colloquium

  • Posted on 19th May 2015

I’ll be giving a special 3TU Design United sponsored research colloquium lecture in the department of industrial design at Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands. This talk traces a trajectory of design research projects I have worked on over the past several years that collectively aim to critically and…

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Full paper accepted at Aarhus

  • Posted on 15th May 2015

Our paper Material Speculations was accepted at the 5th decennial ACM conference on Critical Computing (CC ’15).   Wakkary, R., Odom, W., Hauser, S., Hertz, G., Lin, H. (2015). Material Speculation: Actual Artifacts for Critical Inquiry. In Proceedings of the 5th decennial conference on Critical computing: Critical Alternatives. (CC ’15). ACM…

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2015 Design United Visiting Researcher

  • Posted on 27th April 2015

As a Design United visiting research, I will be based at the industrial design department of TU/Eindhoven in the Netherlands for one month (27 April – 27 May, 2015), where I’ll be teaching an intensive graduate-level design studio module course on slow interaction and beginning work on some new projects!

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CHI 2015

  • Posted on 19th April 2015

From April 19 – 23, 2015 I will be at the 2015 ACM Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in Seoul, Korea. I’m (i) presenting a paper investigating long-term interactions with slow technology in the Reflecting on Design Reflection session (see reference below), (ii) judging the Student Design Competition, (iii) supporting my co-authors…

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Full paper accepted at C&C 2015

  • Posted on 1st March 2015

Our paper Intersecting with Unaware Objects was accepted at the ACM conference Creativity and Cognition (C&C) 2015. Odom, W., Wakkary, R. (2015). Intersecting with Unaware Objects. In proceedings of Creativity and Cognition. Glasgow, Scotland. C&C ’15. ACM Press. (Local Copy)    

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2 Full Papers accepted at CHI 2015

  • Posted on 6th January 2015

Two of my papers were accepted at the ACM conference CHI 2015. Odom, W. (2015). Understanding Long-term Interactions with a Slow Technology: An Investigation of Experiences with FutureMe. In proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Seoul, Korea. CHI ’15. ACM Press. (Local Copy) Desjardins, A., Wakkary, R.,…

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