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Delete by Haiku

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Being, Bringing and Bridging

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

The IKEA Catalogue

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP '16, 2016

Experiential artifacts as a design method for somaesthetic service development

Proceedings of the 2011 Acm Symposium, 2011

ABSTRACT How can deep understandings of material properties, limitations and possibilities be use... more

Repurposing Bits and Pieces of the Digital

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '16, 2016

Repurposing refers to a broad set of practices, such as recycling or upcycling, all aiming to mak... more Repurposing refers to a broad set of practices, such as recycling or upcycling, all aiming to make better use of or give new life to physical materials and artefacts. While these practices have an obvious interest regarding sustainability issues, they also bring about unique aesthetics and values that may inspire design beyond sustainability concerns. What if we can harness these qualities in digital materials? We introduce Delete by Haiku, an application that transforms old mobile text messages into haiku poems. We elaborate on how the principles of repurposing – working on a low budget, introducing chance and combining the original values with the new ones – can inform interaction design in evoking some of these aesthetic values. This approach changes our views on what constitutes &quot; digital materials &quot; and the opportunities they offer. We also connect recent debates concerning ownership of data with discussions in the arts on the &quot; Death of the Author. &quot; AUTHOR

Designing a mobile system for coping with stress

In the Affective Health project we explore mobile services that empowers people to monitor and un... more In the Affective Health project we explore mobile services that empowers people to monitor and understand their own stress levels vis-à-vis their everyday activities. Our design aims to create open surfaces for users to interpret, appropriate and change over time, making the look and experience of the system their own, even after it has been deployed, letting the participatory process continue where PD traditionally leaves. Here we discuss our design process and the problem of getting design input from a sensitive and hard to reach target group. We present the ways we worked around the problems, the questions that arose, and thoughts we have for our future work.

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Affective Health – designing for empowerment rather than stress diagnosis

When designing Affective Health, a mobile stress management tool using biosensors, we gradually u... more When designing Affective Health, a mobile stress management tool using biosensors, we gradually understood how severely limited inferences can be when we move from laboratory situations to everyday usage. We also came to understand the strong connection between our subjectively perceived resources for dealing with stress and healing. Therefore, rather than employing a diagnose-and-treat design model, we propose that designers empower users to make their own reflections and interpretations of their own bio-sensor data. We show how this can be done through encouraging reflection, alternative interpretations and active appropriation of biosensor data – avoiding a reductionist, sometime erroneous, mediation of automatic interpretation from bodily data to emotion models or, in this case, stress diagnosis.

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IWS: interacting with sound

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - MobileHCI '11, 2011

In this workshop, we explore novel applications, services, tools, and systems that take advantage... more In this workshop, we explore novel applications, services, tools, and systems that take advantage of the audio channel on mobile devices to feed users with a flow of information. We call for innovative ideas to introduce ambient context-aware, location-aware, and/or social audio as a more effective means of communicating information and providing experiences to mobile users.

But i don't trust my friends

Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services - MobileHCI '12, 2012

The Ecofriends application was designed to engage people in reflecting on their everyday grocery ... more The Ecofriends application was designed to engage people in reflecting on their everyday grocery shopping from social and ecological perspectives. Ecofriends portrays the season of various groceries as socially constructed, emphasizing subjective dimensions of what it means for a product to be in season, rather than attempting to communicate it as an established fact. It provides the user with unexpected information (news, weather, blog posts and tweets) about the place where the product was grown, and visualizes how the product's popularity shifts throughout the year, among the user's friends, among chefs and other food experts, and among the general public.

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Temporal relations in affective health

In the Affective Health project we explore possibilities of how to, through biofeedback support u... more In the Affective Health project we explore possibilities of how to, through biofeedback support users in making sense of the relationship between their stress and their behavior in everyday life. Affective Health is a tool for visualizing patterns and trends of bodily and contextual information. It is particularly important that the design reflects changes over time as this is how people start recognizing patterns in their own behavior and connect it to their bodily reactions. We spent substantial effort sketching and testing ways of portraying time that would move us away from more mathematically inspired representations such as for example graphs and calendars. Instead, we want users to see the signals our bodies emit as part of themselves, of their own ways of being in the world, alive, acting and reacting to their environment. We have explored many possible, alternative ways of visualizing temporal representations through biofeedback. For example as the relation between different places and with time as different layers of history in a concept inspired from ecology. The latest and most developed concept is a cyclic repetition of biodata mapped on a spiral shape.

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Temporal relations in affective health

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Delete by Haiku

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Being, Bringing and Bridging

Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

The IKEA Catalogue

Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work - GROUP '16, 2016

Experiential artifacts as a design method for somaesthetic service development

Proceedings of the 2011 Acm Symposium, 2011

ABSTRACT How can deep understandings of material properties, limitations and possibilities be use... more

Repurposing Bits and Pieces of the Digital

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI '16, 2016

Designing a mobile system for coping with stress

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Affective Health – designing for empowerment rather than stress diagnosis

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IWS: interacting with sound

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services - MobileHCI '11, 2011

But i don't trust my friends

Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services - MobileHCI '12, 2012

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Temporal relations in affective health

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Temporal relations in affective health

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