Ella Dagan

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Social Wearables Edu-Larp: Insights From a Novel Camp Combining Crafting, Coding, and Larping Aimed at Non-traditional Steam Participants

Developing STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math) education curricula encouraging participation from underrepresented groups is crucial for diversity in computational fields. Many existing programs attract cis-white males, to the exclusion of other groups. This paper discusses a camp where participant…

DIS '233rd AuthorAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +2

The Cuteness Factor: An Interpretive Framework for Artists, Designers, and Engineers

Cuteness in design can brighten our daily lives by bringing feelings of joy, comfort, and healing to our experiences. Previous HCI works have explored how cuteness can be leveraged to create more joyful user experiences across a variety of technologies, for example, in the design of cute interfaces for AI agents and t…

CSCW '221st AuthorXR Collaboration; XR Collaboration

Project IRL: Playful Co-Located Interactions with Mobile Augmented Reality

We present Project IRL, a suite of five mobile apps we created to explore novel ways of supporting in-person social interactions with Augmented Reality. In recent years, public discourse has blamed digital technologies for making people feel "alone together,'' distracting them away from one another when interacting in…

DIS '212nd AuthorSocial Platform Design & User Behavior +1

Drawing From Social Media to Inspire Increasingly Playful and Social Drone Futures

In this pictorial, we explore the potential of social media to help inspire ideas for future drone design applications that support playful and social experiences. Drawing from a Situated Play Design approach, we turn to social media posts to identify recurring playful and social instances of drone use in so…

DIS '211st AuthorHaptic Wearables +1

Synergistic Social Technology: Designing Systems with `Needs' that Encourage and Support Social Interaction

In this paper, we propose a strong concept for interaction design: Synergistic Social Technology (SST). This concept describes systems in which technology is designed with its own 'need' for interaction. As a result of responding to these needs, people who use the system may benefit from social interaction with others…

CHI '191st AuthorHaptic Wearables +2

Designing 'True Colors': A Social Wearable that Affords Vulnerability

Vulnerability is a common experience in everyday life and is frequently perceived as a flaw to be excised in technology design. Yet, research indicates it is an essential aspect of wholehearted living among others. In this paper, we present the design and deployment of 'True Colors', a novel wearable device intended t…

CHI '183rd AuthorHaptic Wearables +2

Designing Future Social Wearables with Live Action Role Play (Larp) Designers

Designing wearable technology that supports physical and social engagement in a collocated setting is challenging. In this research, we reached out to an expert community of crafters of social experiences: larpers (live action role players). Larpers and larp designers have a longstanding tradition of designing and mak…

CSCW '185th+ AuthorHealth and Relationships

"I just let him cry...": Designing Socio-technical Interventions in Families to Prevent Mental Health Disorders

Interventions that help children develop protective factors against mental health disorders are an inherently social endeavour, relying on a number of actors from within the family as well as the school context. Little work thus far in CSCW and HCI has examined the potential of technology to support or enhance such in…

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