Felt experiences with Kombucha Scoby: Exploring first-person perspectives with living matter

N Ofer, M Alistar - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Designing with living organisms can offer new perspectives to design research and
practices in HCI. In this work, we explore first-person perspectives through design research …

Reflection in theory and reflection in practice: an exploration of the gaps in reflection support among personal informatics apps

J Cho, T Xu, A Zimmermann-Niefield… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Personal informatics (PI) systems have been developed to support reflection. While
reflection is considered an indispensable activity in PI use, how and when reflection occurs …

Cracks in the success narrative: Rethinking failure in design research through a retrospective trioethnography

N Howell, A Desjardins, S Fox - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
What can design researchers learn from our own and each other's failures? We explore
“failure” expansively—turning away from tidy success narratives toward messy unfoldings …

Privacy Legislation as Business Risks: How GDPR and CCPA are Represented in Technology Companies' Investment Risk Disclosures

RY Wong, A Chong, RC Aspegren - Proceedings of the ACM on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Power exercised by large technology companies has led to concerns over privacy and data
protection, evidenced by the passage of legislation including the EU's General Data …

Tactics of soft resistance in user experience professionals' values work

RY Wong - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
User experience (UX) professionals' attempts to address social values as a part of their work
practice can overlap with tactics to contest, resist, or change the companies they work for …

On activism and academia: Reflecting together and sharing experiences among critical friends

DC Leal, A Strohmayer, M Krüger - … of the 2021 CHI Conference on …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
In recent years HCI and CSCW work has increasingly begun to address complex social
problems and issues of social justice worldwide. Such activist-leaning work is not without …

Eliciting alternative economic futures with working-class detroiters: Centering afrofuturism in speculative design

TR Dillahunt, AJ Lu, J Velazquez - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Economic crises such as the global recession and financial crisis of 2007 and 2008 and the
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, have elevated new forms of economic …

HCI tactics for politics from below: meeting the challenges of smart cities

CD Whitney, T Naval, E Quepons, S Singh… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
As crucial public functions are transferred to computer systems, emerging technologies have
public implications that are often shaped beyond public influence and oversight.“Smart city” …

Towards a research agenda for geopolitical tensions in HCI

J Abdelnour Nocera, T Clemmensen… - Interacting with …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
There are major geopolitical challenges for human-computer interaction (HCI): there may be
little or no global HCI knowledge with a shared approach and identity; Western HCI theory …

Fabulating biodata futures for living and knowing together

V Tsaknaki, P Sanches, T Jenkins, N Howell… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
A growing number of design researchers explore engagement with and through biodata. To
help make sense of this growing space, we synthesize three emergent themes:(1) …