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Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, And Then What? Open
This workshop focuses on the temporal dimensions of Researchthrough Design (RtD) in Human-Computer Interaction. Buildingon the success of previous objects of design workshops at CHI, itexplores how time impacts the creation, evolution, and…
Designing with Friction: Inverting Notions of Seamless Technology Open
There is growing unease and a sense within the design community of the value placed on efficient, simplified, and seamless interactions, with a growing awareness and documentation of their unintended consequences across society. By priorit…
The Router of All Evil: Designerly Hacking a Network of One’s Own Open
This paper contributes a new design research artifact, The Router of All Evil. This is a Research Product that results from and scaffolds a Research Through Design exploration of the domestic Internet. The Router of All Evil is designed to…
Data Probes: Reflecting on Connected Devices with Technology-Mediated Probes Open
We introduce Data Probes, technology-mediated probes designed to reveal some of the inner workings of connected devices, including common embedded sensors and the data they collect. By making these common features both accessible and unfam…
Zoom Obscura: Counterfunctional Design for Video-Conferencing Open
This paper reports on Zoom Obscura – an artist-based design research project, responding to the ubiquity of video-conferencing \nas a technical and cultural phenomenon throughout the Covid-19 \npandemic. As enterprise software, such as Zoo…
RtD in Situ Open
This workshop aims to bring together Research through Design (RtD) practitioners in the DIS community, giving them a space to present, debate, and discuss issues emerging from their work. In particular, our goal is to catalyze a focused co…
Doing Things with Research through Design Open
This workshop provides a venue within CHI for research through design (RtD) practitioners to present their work and discuss how, with whom, and why it is used. Building on the success of prior RtD and design research workshops at CHI, this…
Abacus Datagraphy: A Speculative Enactment Open
Anticipating an increasingly data-driven life, this speculative design project critically examines a future service called Abacus, for documenting weddings in the mode of the quantified self.“At Abacus, we offer a full suite of wedding dat…
ThinkActive Open
We report on the design of ThinkActive - a system to encourage primary aged school children to reflect on their own personal activity data in the classroom. We deployed the system with a cohort of 30 school children, over a six-week period…
Designing Documentary Informatics Open
In this paper we describe a Research through Design inquiry about a speculative wedding documentation service, in the mode of the Quantified Self. We reflect on our design research, which included design ethnography, interviews, enactments…
Transitions in Digital Personhood Open
We present findings from an experience-centered study about how Internet use supports self-functioning following the life transition into retirement. This qualitative study engaged six recent retirees and included the field deployment of O…
Making Ritual Machines Open
Viewing the mobile telephone as a networked material, we demonstrate the ways in which we have used it to make Research Products for the "Family Rituals 2.0" inquiry of families separated by work. Drawing from a diversity of sources we sur…
On Speculative Enactments Open
Speculative Enactments are a novel approach to speculative design research with participants. They invite the empirical analysis of participants acting amidst speculative but consequential circumstances. HCI as a broadly pragmatic, experie…
Ritual Machines I & II Open
Changing patterns of both work-related mobility and domestic arrangements mean that 'mobile workers' face challenges to support and engage in family life whilst travelling for work. Phatic devices offer some potential to provide connection…
Metadating Open
We introduce Metadating -- a future-focused research and speed-dating event where single participants were invited to "explore the romance of personal data". Participants created "data profiles" about themselves, and used these to "date" o…
Family Rituals @.0 Ritual Machine 'Anticipation' Open
Bespoke technology has been designed and built for Hywel and Jasper, to create moments of reflection for them: allowing discussion about thier work/life balance and their attitudes to working away from home.