Peter Tolmie

schoolUniversity of Siegenbar_chart#517 Global Rank

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Finding a Home for Voice Assistants: A Domestication Calculus Across Three Years and Thirty Households

HCI has explored voice assistant (VA) use across various social settings, highlighting their impact on personal and familial dynamics. Yet, the progressive domestication of these devices over time and their longer-term impact on relationships remain underexplored. We present findings from a three-year study of 30 hou…

CHI '26CorrespondingContent Moderation & Platform Governance +2

Silencing \& Surging: A Layered Ecology of Algorithmic Repression and Resistance in the Gaza Escalations

During the 2023–ongoing Gaza war, Palestinian advocacy on social media has faced rapid removals, downranking, and account sanctions. In this contribution, we offer a layered analysis of how people endure and counter this repression across affective, mechanistic, and material dimensions. Using patchwork ethnography ove…

CSCW '25CorrespondingActivism in a Time of Data

Exploring Algorithmic Resistance: Responses to Social Media Censorship in Activism

Social media platforms have become a double-edged sword for human rights activism, simultaneously offering a stage and facilitating wide-reaching communication and connection, while also imposing censorship through stringent and opaque content governance. This study focuses on the over enforcement of content moderatio…

CHI '254th AuthorDeveloping Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +2

Designing for Resilience: Fostering Ponds of Stability with Computer Clubs in Palestine

Addressing the complexities of conflict-affected regions remains a critical challenge for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). This paper examines the establishment of computer clubs in Palestinian refugee camps, where efforts to create sustainable interventions weighed against the instability of prolonged conflict. To c…

CSCW '245th+ AuthorSession 2g: Reflecting on CSCW, methods and artifacts

Knowledge spillover between serendipity and strategic planning, Lessons for practice-oriented interventions into regional innovation systems

Previous CSCW research has paid increasing attention to regional innovation systems providing the context for CSCW research and design. In this paper we provide insights into attempts to intervene in such a regional innovation system via practice-oriented activities. Our findings describe experiences of co-creating kn…

CSCW '244th AuthorSession 2g: Reflecting on CSCW, methods and artifacts

“We are no Luddites!” – CSCW, Co-Determination and Digital Transformation in Germany

HCI and CSCW have a long-standing interest in the consequences of digital transformation for work practices. A key part of this is its impact on labour relations. While prior HCI studies have examined labour relations in domains such as platform work, few have looked at industrial settings. This paper presents an ethn…

CUI '242nd AuthorIntelligent Voice Assistants (Alexa, Siri, etc.) +2

Voice Assistants' Accountability through Explanatory Dialogues

As voice assistants (VAs) become more advanced leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) and natural language processing, their potential for accountable behavior expands. Yet, the long-term situational effectiveness of VAs’ accounts when errors occur remains unclear. In our 19-month exploratory study with 19 households…

CSCW '23CorrespondingOnline Experiences

Becoming an Online Wine Taster: An Ethnographic Study on the Digital Mediation of Taste

There has been a growing interest in taste research in the HCI and CSCW communities. However, the focus is more on stimulating the senses, while the socio-cultural aspects have received less attention. However, individual taste perception is mediated through social interaction and collective negotiation and is not onl…

CSCW '233rd AuthorCSCW Across Borders

Articulation Work and the Management of Intersubjectivity Disjunctures in Offshored Manufacturing

Since the move away from integrated value chains in production in the 1980s, the outsourcing and offshoring of various aspects of manufacturing has become commonplace. This has led to global production and marketing relationships between enterprises in numerous different countries, a prominent axis being between Europ…

CSCW '225th+ AuthorCurrent and Future Practices in HCI and CSCW; Current and Future Practices in HCI and CSCW

Designing a Data Story: A storytelling approach to curation, sharing and data reuse in support of ethnographically-driven research

In this paper, we introduce an innovative design concept for the curation of data, which we call ‘Data Story’. We view this as an additional resource for data curation, aimed specifically at supporting the sharing of qualitative and ethnographic data. The Data Story concept is motivated by three elements: 1. the incre…

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