Latest Past Events
Beyond Looking Back: A Seven-Year Journey of Co-Designing Sound-Based Reminiscence with People with Blindness
MinYoung You, Simon Fraser University Abstract How do people with blindness remember, capture and share meaningful moments of life with their loved ones? What are their desires, wishes, and dreams for the future of reminiscence technology for people with blindness? In this talk, MinYoung reflects on a long-term research trajectory spanning from his master's to […]
Pace Layers and Research Products
IxD LabDavid Chatting, Northumbria University Abstract In this talk I shall present a new layered model for designing computational research products, showing how prototypes can deliberately encounter and manipulate different paces of change in the world, to produce knowledge. These designs may function sustainably as inquiry-driven research products, probing durational phenomena, or as propositions seeking to […]
Leveraging the power of emotion, embodiment, and imagination for more ethical, sustainable futures
Noura Howell, University of Southern Denmark Abstract: Society is urgently seeking more ethical, sustainable futures. Howell's research leverages emotion, embodiment, and imagination as powerful capabilities that designers can leverage to support more ethical, sustainable alternatives around data and AI: (1) Design futuring with children to envision sustainable community futures, (2) Embodied interactions for critically interrogating […]