More Samples of One Workshop

July 2nd 2024

More Samples of One:

Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research

ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2024

Interactive systems have become an integral part of our daily lives, influencing how we communicate, work, and play. Understanding the intricate relationship between humans and technology is at the core of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research and design. Amid the array of methodological tools available, first-person research methods have emerged as powerful instruments that enable researchers to delve deeply into the human-technology experience. Five years after the first edition of the Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) workshop on first-person methods, this full day workshop invites HCI researchers, practitioners, and enthusiasts to embark on a journey of discovery of their sample of one. Drawing inspiration from the rich tradition of autoethnography, autobiographical design, embodied ideation, and more, we aim to explore the omnipresence of technology in our everyday lives while acknowledging our own subjectivity and positionality in research and design.

While autoethnographic approaches have been explored within HCI, including a special issue on first-person methods and a workshop at DIS'19 with recent theoretical advancements (e.g. more-than-human, entanglement theories, new materialism, feminist theories of care) and the emergence of further ethical tensions (e.g.: who should be credited as authors and where do the limits of privacy go, or even is there risk of misrepresentation), we see a need to openly discuss how first-person perspectives can continue to be supported as a valuable and accessible approach to design research. To this end, we propose a workshop where both those that have encountered the tensions themselves and those that are hesitant to engage with autoethnographic methods can come together to find a way forward.

Participants of this workshop may expect the following outcomes for themselves:

Becoming part of a community of HCI researchers interested in improving and developing the value of first-methods in HCI.
Developing their own understanding of positionality and the role of personal experience in design research.
Contributing to a discussion on rigour and ethics in first-person research.

This will inform a future publication comprising the following:

A developed set of recommendations on how first-person experiences and narratives can be weaved into what is considered accepted research.
A set of guidelines on how to ethically review first-person research.

Find the Workshop Paper Here:

First_Person_Methods_Workshop-2.pdf

Submit to participate!

Submission Deadline: 20th of May 2024 25th of May 2024 (Extended deadline!)

Acceptance Notification: 30th of May 2024

Submission Form

Organisers

Mafalda Gamboa

Chalmers University of Technology

... is a PhD student at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. She is an avid advocate of first-person perspectives as an essential component of design research and has written a number of autoethnographies including on her experience of pregnancy. With a background in architecture, she has a strong interest in concept-driven visual methods, including sketching and photography.

Claudia Núñez Pacheco

Umeå University

...is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Informatics at Umeå University. Her research investigates how to design from self to others, including how bodily ways of knowing can be used as crafting materials for design ideation, evaluation, insight and empathy. She has embarked on the exploration of foreignness and nomadism from an affective and material perspective.

Sarah Homewood

University of Copenhagen

...is an Assistant Professor of Human Centred Computing at the University of Copenhagen. Her research within is informed by her interest in how the technologies both reflect and influence societal perspectives on bodies, specifically self-tracking technologies. She has conducted research in the areas of ovulation, menopause and menstrual tracking and gut health. Her current research attends to the design of technologies for chronic illnesses such as post-COVID syndrome and chronic fatigue. Her research methods include co-design and research-through-design. Her research is often grounded in feminist and phenomenological theories.

Andrés Lucero

Aalto University

... is Associate Professor of Interaction Design at Aalto University in Finland. His research interests include HCI, design, and play. He wrote an autoethnography of his experiences living without a mobile phone for nine years, and has co-organised a workshop at DIS, as well as co-edited a special issue on first-person methods.

Mascha Beuthel

University of Applied Science Salzburg

...is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Applied Science Salzburg, Austria. Her research engages with diverse bodily experiences through autoethnography, material explorations and wearable artifacts. She is constantly exploring new ways of critically engaging with her own positionality and searching for meaningful ways of integrating personal stories of participants into design processes.

Audrey Desjardins

School of Art + Art History + Design

...is an Associate Professor of Interaction Design in the School of Art + Art History + Design at the University of Washington. Trained as an industrial designer and interaction design researcher, she uses design to question and critically reimagine familiar encounters between humans and things. She conducted an autobiographical design inquiry about ‘Living in a prototype’, and has co-organised a workshop at DIS, as well as co-edited a special issue on first-person methods.

Karey Helms

Stockholm University

... is a postdoctoral researcher at Stockholm University. Her research investigates situations where technology is often considered out of place, such as intimate settings of care or in outdoor environments. This includes drawing upon autotheory, performative methods, and ``living'' materials to implicate herself and unsettle bodily boundaries for a more careful design of technology.

Kristina Höök

Royal Institute of Technology

...is a professor in Interaction Design at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and works part-time at RISE. Höök has published numerous journal papers, books and book chapters, and conference papers in highly renowned venues. She is a frequent keynote speaker. She is known for her work on designing for bodily engagement in interaction through a design stance she refers to as Soma Design, described in her book Designing with the body: Somaesthetic interaction design (MIT Press, 2018). She has obtained numerous national and international grants, awards, and fellowships including the Cor Baayen Fellowship by ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics), the INGVAR award, she is an ACM Distinguished Scientist and elected ACM SIGCHI Academy. Höök is a horseback rider, mother, grandmother, and feminist.

Bill Gaver

Interaction Research Studio at the University of Northumbria

...is Professor of Design and co-leader of the Interaction Research Studio at the University of Northumbria, London. With the studio, he develops unconventional research products for everyday settings as well as design-led methodologies and concepts. He recently wrote an autoethnography with his mother about their experiences using a simple expressive communication device for more than a year (at the time of writing).

Laura Forlano

College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University

...is a Fulbright award-winning and National Science Foundation funded scholar, is a disabled writer, social scientist and design researcher. She is Professor in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University. She is the author of Cyborg (with Danya Glabau, MIT Press 2024) and an editor of three books: Bauhaus Futures (MIT Press 2019), digitalSTS (Princeton University Press 2019) and From Social Butterfly to Engaged Citizen (MIT Press 2011). She received her Ph.D. in communications from Columbia University.

The Venue

ITU University

Room 4A14-16

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