Speculative Enactments are a novel approach to speculative design research with participants. They invite the empirical analysis of participants acting amidst but consequential circumstances. HCI as broadly pragmatic, experience-centered, and participant-focused field is well placed innovate methods that first-hand interaction experience projects. We discuss three case studies this in practice, based on our own work: Runner Spotters, Metadating Quantified Wedding. In distinguishing we offer...

This article questions how people will interact with a quantified past—the growing historical record generated by the increasing use of sensor-based technologies and, in particular, personal informatics tools. In qualitative study, we interviewed 15 long-term users different self-tracking tools about they encountered and made meaning from data had collected. Our findings highlight that even if few are as form deliberate lifelogging, many them generate records become meaningful digital...

Over a decade ago Hallnäs and Redström's seminal article on Slow Technology [6] argued that the increasing availability of technology in environments outside workplace requires interaction design to be expanded from creating tools for making people's lives more efficient could embedded everyday over long periods time. Since then, agenda has include issues such as (i) designing slowness, solitude, mental rest, (ii) interactive systems used across multiple generations lifespans, (iii) slower,...

The term Do It Yourself Assistive Technology (DIY-AT) refers to the creation and adaptation of AT by non-professionals, including people with disabilities their families, friends caregivers. Previous research has argued that development technologies services enable make own DIY-AT will lead rapid low cost assistive devices are tailored meet complex needs individual disabilities. We present results a qualitative study explored challenges related process making for children A series eleven...

Supportive digital technologies for the community practice of Faith remain relatively under-explored in Human Computer Interaction (HCI). We report on interviews with 12 members a Buddhist UK who self-organized and used video-conferencing tools to connected their faith during COVID-19 pandemic, aiming understand how they adopted online while shaping new collective experiences. Findings from Reflexive Thematic Analysis were combined autoethnographic insights first author, also member....

Automics is a photo-souvenir service which utilises mobile devices to support the capture, sharing and annotation of digital images amongst groups visitors theme parks. The prototype mixes individual group photo-capture with existing in-park, on-ride photo services, allow users create printed photo-stories. Herein we discuss initial fieldwork in parks that grounded design Automics, our development prototype, its real-world evaluation park visitors. We relate findings on user experience...

With the increasing size and complexity of personal information data landscapes, there is a need for guidance support in appropriate management deceased person's postmortem privacy digital legacy. However, most people engage poorly with existing mechanisms specifying planning access suitable usage their own data. We report on two studies exploring ways which contextual factors such as accessor type may affect appropriateness flows differently during life after death. Our findings indicate...

The Research Through Design (RTD) conference is a new, experimental dissemination platform to support design practitionerresearchers. Founded in 2013, RTD was established as biennial series with 2015, held Cambridge, UK (March 25-27, 2015). 1 This special issue brings together set of perspectives from those who attended the 2015 conference, offering new experiential insight about what it means practice, disseminate, and understand design-led inquiry within academic communities...

column Share on Fitter, happier, more productive: what to ask of a data-driven life Authors: Chris Elsden Newcastle University UniversityView Profile , Mark Selby Edinburgh EdinburghView Abigail Durrant David Kirk Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 23Issue 5September + October 2016 pp 45https://doi.org/10.1145/2975388Published:23 August 2016Publication History 27citation1,703DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations27Total Downloads1,703Last 12 Months228Last 6 weeks34 Get Citation AlertsNew...

Smart journals are both an emerging class of lifelogging applications and novel digital possessions, which used to create curate a personal record one's life. Through in-depth interview study analogue journaling practices, by drawing on wide range research around --technologies memory?, we address fundamental questions about how people manage value records the past. Appreciating as deeply idiographic, map broad user practices motivations use this understanding ground four design...

This paper reports a case study investigating the productive value of designers' creative practice within complex academic-industrial collaborations in which designer's had formative role. Adopting pragmatic approach, collaborators' experiences this project were reconstructed through interviews and 'annotated timelines.' Collaborators found to work responding their particular concerns whilst also opening up new possibilities. discusses how such benefit is attributable 'designerly thinking'...

In this paper we describe a Research through Design inquiry about speculative wedding documentation service, in the mode of Quantified Self. We reflect on our design research, which included ethnography, interviews, enactments parts and production concept brochure. so doing, explore personal tracking as documentary activity, one intended for longer-term self-expression remembering -- rather than simply to monitor, regulate motivate data-driven life. Developing Lived Informatics discourse,...

There is a growing body of literature in HCI examining the intersection between policymaking and technology research. However, what it means to engage our field, or ways which evidence from studies translated into policy, not well understood. We report on interviews with 11 participants working at research policymaking. Analysis this data highlights how understood made sense processes, forms are privileged over others, work that researchers meaningfully communicate their audiences. discuss...

Resulting from treatment advances, the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is now a long-term condition, and digital solutions are being developed to support people living with HIV in self-management. Sharing their health data peers may self-management, but trust, identity, privacy security (TIPS) considerations of remain underexplored. Working peer researcher who expert lived experience HIV, we interviewed 26 United Kingdom (UK) investigate how design sharing platform. We also conducted...

This article focuses on the planning–technology nexus. Recent work explores potential of digital technology in overcoming longstanding limitations a lack public engagement and citizen empowerment planning process. In August 2020, Government published White Paper to democratize, digitize, digitalize system. We interrogate whether these radical reforms constitute 'planning revolution' or an 'attack planning'; we focus two important issues: democratic deficit divide. The examines how statements...

The growing popularity of collecting self-generated health and lifestyle data presents a valuable opportunity to develop our understanding long-term conditions improve care. Barriers remain the effective sharing by those living with which include beliefs around concepts Trust, Identity, Privacy Security, experiences stigma, perceptions risk information sensitivity.

We report on a Diary Study investigating daily practices of Self-care by seven UK adults living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), to understand their routines, experiences, needs and concerns, informing technology design support well. advance developing HCI literature evidencing how digital tools for self-managing health do not meet the complex those long-term conditions, especially from marginalised communities. Our evaluation using as Design Probe responds calls study so that future...

A recent review by C3 Collaborating for Health [1] suggested that regular walking is beneficial enhancing mental health, example, reducing physical symptoms and anxiety associated with minor stress. Walking meditation, one of the mindfulness techniques proposed Thich Nhat Hanh [2], has potential to enable daily access practice eliminating distress learning new techniques. Existing applications (such as 'Buddify2' 'Headspace' [3]) provide users options guidance techniques, yet they are...

In this paper we describe a design-orientated field study in which deploy novel digital display device to explore the potential integration of teenage and family photo displays at home, as well value situated technologies for intergenerational expression. This exploration is deemed timely given contemporary take-up capture devices by teenagers unprecedented volume photographic content that teens generate. Findings support photos on standalone device, demonstrating interventional efficacy...