{"title":"Involving British-Chinese Immigrants in Participatory Action Research: Lessons Learnt from the Field","authors":"Shichao Zhao","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596107","url":null,"abstract":"British-Chinese communities in the United Kingdom have experienced an increase in discriminatory behaviour with other communities due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the stigmatisation it has brought about as a result of the speculated COVID-19 origins. Therefore, as a pilot study, this paper investigates how Participatory Action Research (PAR), principally the integration of interactive technology with co-design activities, can be applied to support the producing and sharing of community-based immigrant heritage for British-Chinese citizens. In addition, the reasoning behind why British-Chinese communities have faced cross-cultural barriers when sharing their values and significance of their heritage more widely within British society during the COVID-19 pandemic has also been explored. This study potentially makes a significant contribution to the literature because design-led inquiry was used to explore design strategies and considerations of interactive technology that improved the participation of British-Chinese immigrants in sharing the significance of their intangible heritage socially, equally, and coherently during the COVID-19 pandemic.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"88 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116789752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Pragmatics of Sustainable Unmaking: Informing Technology Design through e-Waste Folk Strategies","authors":"A. Khan, Samar Sabie, Dhaval Vyas","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596056","url":null,"abstract":"Technology is becoming increasingly embedded within our material worlds, resulting in an exponential rise in the production and consumption of consumer electronics. Rapid innovations in technological systems reduce technology lifecycles, deprecating digital systems, rendering devices obsolete or incompatible with supporting infrastructure, resulting in the generation of electronic waste (e-waste). Sustainable unmaking practices are a promising avenue for harnessing and repurposing resources used in technology production, enabling us to move closer towards sustainable technology design. This paper presents an applied study investigating the pragmatics of sustainable unmaking, reporting on 12 semi-structured interviews conducted with domain experts engaged in unmaking with e-waste across diverse contexts in the consumer technology lifecycle. We present folk strategies — from rich first-hand accounts, revealing real, vivid, and current perspectives, as well as motivations, passions, and frustrations, of engaging with unmaking e-waste. These strategies inform five declarations as actionable provocations for unmaking in the HCI and design communities.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115587936","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"Like a candy shop with forbidden fruits\": Exploring Sexual Desire of Cohabiting Millennial Couples with Technology","authors":"Roos van Greevenbroek, D. Patel, Aneesha Singh","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596080","url":null,"abstract":"Many cohabiting millennials report dissatisfaction about declining levels of sexual desire. Barriers such as desire discrepancy, lack of communication, changing needs, and habituality interfere with sexual desire and relationship satisfaction. This paper explores whether technology has a role in supporting and increasing sexual desire or developing an understanding of different individual needs towards sexual desire within couples’ relationships and how it can do so. To explore this, we conducted a survey (n=77) and interview study (n=12). Results show that participants wanted a shared, dedicated, and protected space to playfully explore their individual desire with each other. They felt technology could facilitate a better understanding of their evolving needs as a couple, motivate open sexual communication, bring spontaneity, and hands-on exploration; however, technology should not inflict judgement or obligations on desire levels; it should help to understand and situate differing needs in a relationship meaningfully. We share our reflections on the role of technology and raise important considerations in such technology design.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115297230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarthak Arora, Sachleen Kaur, Ritwik Kar, Sumita Sharma, G. Eden
{"title":"What Not to Wear: Exploring Taboos in Clothing Through Speculative Design","authors":"Sarthak Arora, Sachleen Kaur, Ritwik Kar, Sumita Sharma, G. Eden","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3595972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595972","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional clothing is commonly worn in India and are visual markers of caste, religion, region, political affiliation, and gender. While family, friends, and communities implicitly monitor what is worn, it causes tensions between personal choices of self-expression and social expectations of conformity. This paper describes a speculative design project that explores clothing taboos and possible futures in private, public, and regional/national contexts. We describe a participatory workshop conducted to facilitate reflection about the clothing choices people make today, and to re-imagine the purpose of clothing in the future. The result was the design of a dystopian speculative world called Oneness exhibited in a series of photographs depicting provocative transformations in private, public, and regional/national life. The exhibition became a catalyst for deeper reflections and insights and we suggest speculative techniques could be used more often to create supportive spaces for discussions around culturally sensitive and taboo topics.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115713686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Being, Having, Doing, and Interacting: A Personal Informatics Approach to Understanding Human Need Satisfaction in Everyday Life","authors":"M. Hoefer, Stephen Voida","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596120","url":null,"abstract":"A grand challenge for computing is to better understand fundamental human needs and their satisfaction. In this work, we design a personal informatics technology probe that scaffolds reflection on how time-use satisfies Max-Neef’s fundamental needs of being, having, doing, and interacting via self-aspects, relationships and organizations, activities, and environments. Through a combination of a think-aloud study (N = 10) and a week-long in situ deployment (N = 7), participants used the probe to complete self- aspect elicitation and Day Reconstruction Method tasks. Participants then interacted with network visualizations of their daily lives, and discovered insights about their lives. During the study, we collected a dataset of 662 activities annotated with need satisfaction ratings. Despite challenges in operationalizing a theory of need through direct elicitation from individuals, personal informatics systems show potential as a participatory and individually meaningful approach for understanding need satisfaction in everyday life.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126878791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amy Yo Sue Chen, William Odom, Sol Kang, Carman Neustaedter
{"title":"PhotoClock: Reliving Memories in Digital Photos as the Clock Ticks in the Present Moment","authors":"Amy Yo Sue Chen, William Odom, Sol Kang, Carman Neustaedter","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596020","url":null,"abstract":"As digital photos grow exponentially, people need new approaches to engage with their photos over time. We describe our study of PhotoClock, a mobile application that leverages the temporal metadata embedded in digital photos to encourage contemplation of memories bound up in one's photo archive. PhotoClock uses the clock-time of the present moment to re-present one's photos taken around that same time of the day in the past. As time ticks away relentlessly, PhotoClock highlights the ephemeral and ongoing quality of time. We conducted the field study with 12 participants over 8 weeks. Our goals are: (i) to investigate the reflective potential of clock-time as an alternative design approach for supporting memory-oriented photo interaction, and (ii) to explore conceptual propositions related to slowness and temporality. Findings revealed that PhotoClock generated diverse and reflective experiences on participants’ life stories. We conclude with implications and opportunities for future HCI and design research.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127828906","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LilyTiny in the Wild: Studying the Adoption of a Low-Cost Sewable Microcontroller for Computing Education","authors":"Emily Lovell, L. Buechley, James Davis","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3595994","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3595994","url":null,"abstract":"We designed the LilyTiny sewable microcontroller over ten years ago in an effort to make electronic textiles more accessible to students, educators, and novices; it was meant to be affordable, easy to get started with, and well-supported by curriculum. We also designed the LilyTiny with hopes of helping to bridge the gap between e-textile activities using only lights and batteries – and those requiring knowledge of Arduino programming. Following its pilot, the LilyTiny was released as a commercial product through SparkFun Electronics, costing about $5 (USD) and shipping pre-programmed to control various LED behaviors. Free curriculum was released alongside it, detailing six low-cost activities that could be taught without any prior electronics experience. This paper shares our study of the LilyTiny’s adoption since its release, especially with regard to computing education. We discuss several measures of impact, beginning with a review of derivative products and a multi-year analysis of sales data from the LilyTiny’s sole distributor. We then augment our discussion with a survey of customer reviews, social media posts, and related computing education curriculum and research. Finally, we reflect on the experience of bringing a prototype to market – and how this work might invite broader discussion around defining and measuring impact. Ultimately, we do believe that our findings substantiate the LilyTiny’s value in the computing education landscape – particularly when it comes to lowering barriers of entry to e-textiles.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127830940","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Carbon Scales: Collective Sense-making of Carbon Emissions from Food Production through Physical Data Representation","authors":"M. Lindrup, A. Menon, Aksel Biørn-Hansen","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596043","url":null,"abstract":"The climate impact of our food consumption is a key issue to sustainability. Yet understanding the food system and the impact it has can be difficult given its abstract nature. In this paper, we report on a Research through Design project aimed at designing and evaluating a data physicalization for supporting collective sense-making of the climate impact of food. Throughout the design process, we have explored the materiality of CO2 emissions and ways to design with less resource use. The resulting data physicalization, Carbon Scales, was evaluated in a three-week field study with 27 participants. Our findings show that collective sense-making can be enabled through interactive data physicalizations and that this can lead to carbon literacy. We expand on a) sustainability through design by arguing for the value of artifacts that let people stay in the interaction as this can support collective sense-making and b) sustainability in design by showcasing the value of designing with an interaction-first and materials-second mindset.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125864134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evgeny Stemasov, David Ledo, G. Fitzmaurice, Fraser Anderson
{"title":"Immersive Sampling: Exploring Sampling for Future Creative Practices in Media-Rich, Immersive Spaces","authors":"Evgeny Stemasov, David Ledo, G. Fitzmaurice, Fraser Anderson","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596131","url":null,"abstract":"Creative practitioners rely on sampling to understand, explore, and construct problems; or gather resources for later use. Despite practitioners’ ability to experience immersive environments, sampling from them remains limited to primarily visual captures (e.g., screenshots, videos), which overlook the richness and variety of available media. To address these challenges, we describe “Immersive Sampling” as a new way to frame information gathering in the context of immersive environments. In the context of Immersive Sampling, practitioners engage in experiencing immersive environments while capturing, organizing, revisiting, and remixing found content. We situate this subset of tasks in literature and argue for their importance for emerging, future content creation domains. To further explore how Immersive Sampling might take place, we created VRicolage, a proof-of-concept prototype showcasing a set of interactions in Virtual Reality to sample, revisit, and remix captures. Given the democratization of immersive environments, Immersive Sampling provides practitioners with a means to collect, revisit, and remix digital materials.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124254007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Christian Sivertsen, Maarten L. Smith, Sander van der Zwan
{"title":"Art Critique by Other Means","authors":"Christian Sivertsen, Maarten L. Smith, Sander van der Zwan","doi":"10.1145/3563657.3596069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3563657.3596069","url":null,"abstract":"HCI projects bringing digital and interactive technologies into art museums are affected by a conception of the relation between art and design that narrows the available design space. This is often done by positioning such technologies either as presenting information about artworks, as artworks themselves, or by taking a ’hands-off’ approach. Aiming to re-investigate this conceptual space, we draw on an enactive approach to art developed by Alva Noë and, by means of a design example (an installation in the MUNCH museum), discuss how this approach redirected the design process. Specifically, how it affected the way the design team related to the original artworks and their history, and how they approached evaluating their work. We show by example how understanding such technologies in terms of how they educate visitors’ attention, similarly to art critique, allows designers to participate in correspondence with artworks using unique material, aesthetic, and embodied means.","PeriodicalId":259076,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124513245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}