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Digital Technologies for Smallholder Agriculture: Tensions and Speculations Open
Big Tech, Big Agri, and agri-tech start-ups promise us that digital technologies will make agriculture more sustainable, painting high-tech visions of sensors, AI, and autonomous drones and robots running the data-driven farm. However, man…
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…
Walking and Talking: Place-based Data Collection and Mapping for Participatory Design with Communities Open
This paper explores the value of a participant-led walking method, during which matters of place in urban or rural contexts are explored. While walking, a diverse dataset is collected, including audio recordings, photographs, GPS tracks, a…
Materialising the Immaterial: Provotyping to Explore Voice Assistant Complexities Open
Voice assistants (VAs), typically promoted as omniscient conversational butlers, still remain below users' expectations. Interaction designers seem to struggle bringing in user perspectives necessary to develop more meaningful VA applicati…
EngagingwithAutomation:UnderstandingandDesigningforOperation,Appropriation,andBehaviourChange Open
Automation has been permeating our everyday lives in various facets. Given both the ubiquity and, in many cases, the indispensability of ubiquitous automated systems, creating engaging experiences with them becomes increasingly relevant. T…
Engaging with Automation: Understanding and Designing for Operation, Appropriation, and Behaviour Change Open
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Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT Open
Prototypes and other 'things' have had many uses in HCI research—to help understand a problem, as a stepping stone towards a solution, or as a final outcome of a research process. However, within the messy context of a research through des…
Proceed with Care: Reimagining Home IoT Through a Care Perspective Open
As the internet is increasingly embedded in the everyday things in our homes, we notice a need for greater focus on the role care plays in those relationships-and therefore an opportunity to realize unseen potential in reimagining home Int…
Open-Collaborative-Making.pdf Open
In 2014 the world seemed awash with the positivity of hackathons. It seems a shared space between academia and industry that was welcoming, often for the first time, arts practitioners into their worlds. NASA was asking us to explore the v…
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Scribing as Seen from the Inside: The Ethos of the Studio Open
This reflective piece focuses on the practices of Scribes, a feature that was newly introduced to RTD 2015 and is envisioned to capture aspects of the highly discursive nature of this conference format. Scribing comprises drawing, writing …
Social Printers Open
Social Printers are physical devices that create a pseudonymous social network between households during televised political debates. Through studies conducted around the Scottish Parliamentary Election and EU Referendum in 2016, we aimed …
Designing interactive newsprint Open
The possibility of linking paper to digital information is enhanced by recent developments in printed electronics. In this article we report the design and evaluation of a local newspaper augmented with capacitive touch regions and an embe…