In-home, place-based, conversational agents have exploded in popularity over the past
three years. In particular, Amazon's conversational agent, Alexa, now dominates the market …

Not so long ago, I ran a postgraduate workshop on Actor-Network Theory (henceforth ANT).
An introductory overview had been specifically requested by students, many of whom did not …

The authors of this volume (Ilpo Koskinen, John Zimmerman, Thomas Binder, Johan
Redstrom, and Stephan Wensveen) argue that design research needs more than …

Data surrounds each and every one of us in our daily lives, ranging from exercise logs, to
archives of our interactions with others on social media, to online resources pertaining to our …

This paper examines Research Through Design as an orientation to so-called'Third
Wave'Human Computer Interaction (HCI). A number of recent critical reflections are …

Engagement events—whether interviews, installations, or participatory encounters—can
entail a range of happenings which, in one way or another,“overspill” the empirical, analytic …

In this paper, I discuss design workbooks, collections of design proposals and related
materials, both as a method for design and as a design methodology. In considering them as …

Over the past several years, people have increasingly acquired virtual possessions. We
consider these things to include artifacts that are increasingly becoming immaterial (eg …

In this paper we describe the Prayer Companion, a device we developed as a resource for
the spiritual activity of a group of cloistered nuns. The device displays a stream of …

This article presents an account of the Interaction Research Studio's distinctive approach to
incorporating data into design, unpacking a vital but previously unexamined facet of our two …