Restrictions on physical movements and in-person encounters during the COVID-19 crisis
confronted many qualitative researchers with challenges in conducting and completing …

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 …

As our physical environments become ever-more connected, instrumented and automated, it
can be increasingly difficult for users to understand what is happening within them and why …

As posthumanist or post-anthropocentric research in HCI and design proliferates and further
commits to working with more-than-humans, design research practitioners are left with many …

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 …

While data are the backbone for home Internet of Things'(IoT) functional and economic
model, data remain elusive and abstract for home dwellers. In response, we present the Odd …

Digital data has become a key part of everyday life: people manage increasingly large and
disparate collections of photos, documents, media, etc. But what happens after death? How …

There is a need to reframe our relationship to energy, particularly in Western energy
contexts, where we have plentiful access and no meaningful barriers to use. This paper …

Design ethnography has been widely used in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) to
understand people's everyday behaviors, in order to build technologies capable of meeting …

In this paper, we use fiction as a method to complicate the commonplace narratives of data
as intangible and objective, in the particular context of Internet of Things (IoT) in the home …