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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Slow Technology workshop at DIS 2012

  • Posted on 3rd December 2012

I’m co-organizing a workshop at DIS this year along with a several esteemed collaborators. Interactive technologies are being designed, produced, used, re-purposed, discarded and destroyed more rapidly than ever before. With these shifts, new concerns have steadily emerged across the design and HCI communities over how the growing presence of…

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Technology Design for the End of Life workshop at CHI 2012

  • Posted on 3rd November 2012

I’m co-organizing a workshop at CHI this year along with a host of folks I’ve been collaborating with for years now. This workshop focuses on how technologies might be designed to support the many social processes that occur when a loved one passes away — from how the emotional realities…

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Visual Thinking and Digital Imagery CHI 2012 workshop in Austin

I’m co-organizing a workshop at CHI this year along with several talented colleagues. This workshop focuses on exploring the centrality of visual literacy and visual thinking to HCI. Drawing on emerging critical perspectives, the workshop will address visual literacy and visual thinking from an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design-orientation, foregrounding the…

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HCI, Politics and the City CHI 2011 workshop in Vancouver

I’m co-organizing a two day workshop at CHI 2011 along with some fantastic colleagues. The workshop focus on grassroots movements and how they shape our cities, cultures and politics. We invite HCI researchers, activists and artists to engage with the processes, materials, challenges, and goals of grassroots communities in Vancouver,…

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