A growing number of HCI scholars have started to take materiality as an entry point for
acquiring a deeper understanding of the possibilities and constraints of design. Steadily …

With the recent growth in sustainable HCI, now is a good time to map out the approaches
being taken and the intellectual commitments that underlie the area, to allow for community …

Prototypes and prototyping have had a long and important history in the HCI community and
have played a highly significant role in creating technology that is easier and more fulfilling …

In recent years, Sustainable HCI researchers have begun to investigate “noticing” as a
design research method useful in efforts to decenter the human in design. Through an …

We describe the design, implementation and deployment of Photobox, a domestic
technology that prints four or five randomly selected photos from the owner's Flickr collection …

This paper presents findings from a qualitative study of people's everyday interactions with
energy-consuming products and systems in the home. Initial results from a large online …

We report on a soma design process, where we designed a novel shape-changing garment—
the Soma Corset. The corset integrates sensing and actuation around the torso in tight …

Unlike most social media, where automatic archiving of data is the default, Snapchat
defaults to ephemerality: deleting content shortly after it is viewed by a receiver. Interviews …

Applying a thing-centered, material speculation approach we designed the Morse Things to
acknowledge and inquire into the gap between things and us. The Morse Things are sets of …

In this paper we report on an exploration of how to apply the theory of Slow Design to mass
produced products to establish more mindful usage of products; the intention behind this is …