Social contexts, agency, and conflicts: Exploring critical aspects of design for future smart home technologies

R Garg, H Cui - ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Smart devices are increasingly being designed for, and adopted in, the home environment.
Prior scholarship has investigated the challenges that users face as they take up these …

[HTML][HTML] Design for social digital well-being with young generations: Engage them and make them reflect

R Gennari, M Matera, D Morra, A Melonio… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Digital well-being traditionally means limiting the effects on individuals of technology
abuses. However, in a broader perspective, it can be crucial to consider the pervasiveness …

The evolution of a toolkit for smart-thing design with children through action research

R Gennari, M Matera, A Melonio, M Rizvi… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Several workshops use toolkits to engage children in the design of smart things, that is,
everyday things like toys enhanced with computing devices and capabilities. In general, the …

Reflection and awareness in the design process: children ideating, programming and prototyping smart objects

R Gennari, M Matera, A Melonio, M Rizvi… - Multimedia Tools and …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract Design of new technology with children has been widely investigated, and lately
several workshops have been organised with children for designing novel IoT or smart …

Accidentally Evil: On Questionable Values in Smart Home Co-Design

A Berger, A Kurze, A Bischof, JJ Benjamin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
An ongoing mystery of HCI is how do well-intentioned designers consistently enable
products with unintentionally evil consequences. Using “questionable values” as a lens, we …

How to enable young teens to design responsibly

R Gennari, M Matera, A Melonio, M Rizvi - Future Generation Computer …, 2024 - Elsevier
Smart things, such as smart watches, are popular among young teens. Designing them
requires technical knowledge, concerning the inner workings of physical devices, cloud …

Four patterns of data-driven design activities in New Product Development

B Lee, S Ahmed-Kristensen - Proceedings of the Design Society, 2023 - cambridge.org
In the midst of Industry 4.0 where digitalisation is stimulated through the Internet of Things
(IoT), Big Data, and machine learning technologies, an increasing volume of valuable data …

A phygital toolkit for rapidly designing smart things at school

R Gennari, M Matera, D Morra, M Rizvi - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Designing smart things, so as to ideate and program them, is a complex process and an
empowerment opportunity. Toolkits can help non-experts engage in their design, that is, in …

From children's ideas to prototypes for the internet of things: a case study of cross-generational end-user design

R Gennari, A Melonio, M Rizvi - Behaviour & Information …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A smart bracelet that reacts to a person's heartbeat. A smart bench that invites
passers-by to sit close. These and others are smart things, part of the Internet of Things (IoT) …

A tool for guiding teachers and their learners: the case study of an art class

R Gennari, A Melonio, M Rizvi - Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
There is growing interest in how to enable in-service teachers to promote computational
skills in their classes. Different researchers also highlight the importance of developing a …