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Investigating Underdetermination Through Interactive Computational Handweaving
Computational handweaving combines the repeatable precision of digital fabrication with relatively high production demands of the user: a weaver must be physically engaged with the system to enact a pattern, line by line, into a fabric. Rather than …
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Entangling the Roles of Maker and Interpreter in Interpersonal Data Narratives: Explorations in Yarn and Sound
To explore how materials, data, and humans collaborate to produce physical data representations, we created a series of artefacts from personal data we collected (about commuting, forgetting, and busy-ness) in different media—yarn and sound. We …
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Embracing Uncertainty in HCI
Uncertainty is prevalent characteristic of contemporary life, and a central challenge of HCI. This one-day workshop will explore how HCI has and might continue to engage uncertainty as a generative feature in design, as opposed to a force to mitigate …
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Craftspeople as Technical Collaborators: Lessons Learned through an Experimental Weaving Residency
While craft has had increasing influence on HCI research, HCI researchers tend to engage craft in limited capacities, often focusing on the juxtapositions of “traditional” craft and “innovative” computing. In this paper, we describe the structure and …
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What HCI Can Learn from ASMR: Becoming Enchanted with the Mundane
In this paper we explore how the qualities of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) media – its pairing of sonic and visual design, ability to subvert fast-paced technology for slow experiences, production of somatic responses, and attention to …
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Making Design Memoirs: Understanding and Honoring Difficult Experiences
Design is commonly understood as a storytelling practice, yet we have few narratives with which to describe the felt experiences of struggle, pain, and difficulty, beyond treating them as subjects to resolve. This work uses the praxis of embodied design …
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Unfabricate: Designing Smart Textiles for Disassembly
Smart textiles development is combining computing and textile technologies to create tactile, functional objects such as smart garments, soft medical devices, and space suits. However, the field also combines the massive waste streams of both the …
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Sensing Kirigami
This pictorial presents our material-driven inquiry into carbon-coated paper and kirigami structures. We investigated two variations of this paper and their affordances for tangible interaction; particularly their electrical, haptic, and visual aspects …
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Envisioning Reflective and Relaxing Design with ASMR
In this paper, we aim to acquaint the sensory phenomenon of Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) with the DIS community and investigate its relevance via research through design. We inquire if the aesthetics of ASMR media can inspire the design …
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Doing Things with Research through Design: With What, with Whom, and Towards What Ends?
Kristina Andersen,
Andy Boucher,
David Chatting,
Audrey Desjardins,
Laura Devendorf,
William Gaver,
Tom Jenkins,
William Odom,
James Pierce,
Anna Vallgårda
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 workshop will …
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AdaCAD: Crafting Software For Smart Textiles Design
Woven smart textiles are useful in creating flexible electronics because they integrate circuitry into the structure of the fabric itself. However, there do not yet exist tools that support the specific needs of smart textiles weavers. This paper …
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From HCI to HCI-Amusement: Strategies for Engaging what New Technology Makes Old
Notions of what counts as a contribution to HCI continue to be contested as our field expands to accommodate perspectives from the arts and humanities. This paper aims to advance the position of the arts and further contribute to these debates by …
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Adapting Double Weaving and Yarn Plying Techniques for Smart Textiles Applications
Smart textiles integrate sensing and actuation components into their structures to bring interactivity to fabrics. We describe how we adapted two existing fiber arts techniques, double weaving and yarn plying, for the purpose of creating a woven textile …
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Sociotechnical Systems of Care
Austin Toombs,
Laura Devendorf,
Patrick Shih,
Elizabeth Kaziunas,
David Nemer,
Helena Mentis,
Laura Forlano
The goal of this workshop is to bring together CSCW audiences who engage in studies and interventions related to care work. Our aims are to understand how care has been conceptualized in the extant CSCW community, identify core issues and concerns, and …
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Tensions of Data-Driven Reflection: A Case Study of Real-Time Emotional Biosensing
Biosensing displays, increasingly enrolled in emotional reflection, promise authoritative insight by presenting users’ emotions as discrete categories. Rather than machines interpreting emotions, we sought to explore an alternative with emotional …
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String Figuring: A Story of Reflection, Material Inquiry, and a Novel Sensor
We describe a process of materials inquiry that gave rise to a new kind of sensor: a string figure sensor that correlates resistance changes with the topology of a closed loop of string. We describe the critical and reflective process from which our …
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Disruptive Improvisations: Making Use of Non-Deterministic Art Practices in HCI
The goal of this one-day workshop is to open space for disruptive techniques and strategies to be used in the making, prototyping, and conceptualizations of the artifacts and systems developed and imagined within HCI. Specifically, this workshop draws …
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Design for Collaborative Survival: An Inquiry into Human-Fungi Relationships
In response to recent calls for HCI to address ongoing environmental crises and existential threats, this paper introduces the concept of collaborative survival and examines how it shapes the design of interactive artifacts. Collaborative survival …
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Beyond Hybrids: Metaphors and Margins in Design
This paper offers a critical reflection on the term “hybrid”? a term describing the merging of distinct and often contradictory entities. We trace how the term has been taken up in HCI’s programs of design research to explore resolutions between two …