Sylvia Janicki

schoolGeorgia Institute of Technologybar_chart#1999 Global Rank

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Toxic Speculations: A Crip Posthuman Fabulation of Living in a Permanently Polluted World

We share a speculative fabulation that imagines alternative relations to an increasingly polluted landscape, drawing from environmental illness narratives. The fabulation is brought to life through Ray-Flats, shoes that glow in proximity to toxic sites listed in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s publicl…

CSCW '251st AuthorReflecting on Methodology

Reflexive Data Walks: Cultivating Feminist Ethos through Place-Based Inquiry

Reflexivity, as conceived by feminist epistemologies, is essential to advancing social justice design practice. Reflexivity is thus critical for CSCW and HCI scholars and practitioners who seek to build equitable technological futures, as it allows for a critical examination of explicit and implicit values and politi…

DIS '251st AuthorCitizen Science & Crowdsourced Data +2

Making Local Data Memoirs: Changing Orientations in Relation to Environmental Concerns

If we want to understand the affective power of data in shaping our experiences of place, we need new forms of inquiry that reveal what data can do: not just for us, but to us. In this paper, we explore how engaging with data changes the way we feel about environmental concerns that we live with through an approach we…

DIS '252nd AuthorVisual Impairment Technologies (Screen Readers, Tactile Graphics, Braille) +2

Queer/Crip Body Mapping: Expressing Dynamic Bodily Experiences with Data

Drawing on queer and disability theories alongside tangible body mapping techniques, we explore alternative ways of mapping embodied experiences and expressing affective sensations. Our collaborative autoethnographic approach incorporates sensors to trace our somatic experiences over time, pairing visualizations of co…

DIS '241st AuthorBest PaperTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Crip Reflections on Designing with Plants: Intersecting Disability Theory, Chronic Illness, and More-than-Human Design

Through an autoethnographic account of designing, exhibiting, and maintaining an interactive bioart installation with plants, we trace intersections between more-than-human design, disability theory, and lived experiences of chronic illness. Specifically, we deconstruct three "polished" exhibits of our installation th…

CHI '242nd AuthorLGBTQ+ Community Technology Design +2

Designing an Archive of Feelings: Queering Tangible Interaction with Button Portraits

How can tangible, wearable design encourage affective, embodied reflections on queer history? We expand Queer HCI scholarship, using queer theory to inform the design of wearable experiences that explore archives of gender and sexuality. Our project, “Button Portraits,” invites individuals to listen to oral histories…

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