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While the HCI community has developed many unique shape-changing artifacts for supporting novel interactions and experiences, little research has investigated long-term organic experiences of living with these objects. In parallel, Wiberg has proposed ...

Gifting has consistently served many economic and social functions, enabling a way to convey sentiment to others. In digital gifting, the absence of physical elements in the exchange can make it difficult to communicate this meaning. Hybrid gifting ...

My dissertation explores how to help people learn to listen to data through new voice-first technological capabilities, by combining narrative storytelling and data sonification. For example, what if a voice assistant could help you craft personalized ...

Self-tracking is a powerful means to help individuals monitor and improve their behaviors. While numerous tracking technologies are available, it has been challenging to lower the tracking burden whilst promoting reflection. This is because low-burden ...

In a world where data is everywhere, designers are working to find ways in which to design with this intangible and invisible new material. Data-enabled design is becoming an increasingly accepted practice to use for user research around data and for ...

People with physical impairments can experience significant challenges in using traditional input devices (e.g. a mouse, keyboard, stylus, etc.) to control mainstream creative design software (e.g. Adobe XD, Photoshop, and Illustrator). The use of ...

Machine learning and predictive algorithms find patterns in large stores of data and make predictions which corporations and governments use to support decision-making. Yet, the system's representation of reality can be more influential to outcomes than ...

The lack of empathy contributes to the development of insensitive social attitudes, so the design of interactive systems based on games or playful experiences for the development of empathic skills is of vital importance in the field of education. In ...

Over recent years, the Design Research field has been increasingly focusing on how the design of an object is affected after its deployment through the various unpredicted ways of use that occur when user appropriate it—called “design-after-design”. At ...

Important considerations for the design of a Digital Musical Instrument (DMI) arise at the intersection of the disciplines of New Musical Interface design (NMI), Human-computer Interaction (HCI), and Interaction Design (IxD). A review of existing ...

This applied research and development project aims at establishing a novel, embodied interaction principle in the design of manual wheelchairs. The implementation of an upper body-actuated steering mechanism holistically combines a new sensation of ...

Current methods for consulting the public on urban planning proposals fail to provide an inclusive forum to all socio-demographics. Face to face consultations provide a means for those with time and mobility to attend discussions, workshops and ...