Kristin Williams

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Celebrating Everyday Success: Improving Engagement and Motivation using a System for Recording Daily Highlights

The demands of daily work offer few opportunities for workers to take stock of their own progress, big or small, which can lead to lower motivation, engagement, and higher risk of burnout. We present Highlight Matome, a personal online tool that encourages workers to quickly record and rank a single work highlight eac…

CHI '201st AuthorSmart Home Interaction Design +1

The Upcycled Home: Removing Barriers to Lightweight Modification of the Home's Everyday Objects

The Internet-of-things (IoT) embeds computing in everyday objects, but has largely focused on new devices while ignoring the home's many existing possessions. We present a field study with 10 American families to understand how these possessions could be included in the smart home through upcycling. We describe three…

CSCW '191st AuthorHomes

Understanding Family Collaboration Around Light Weight Modification of Everyday Objects in the Home

The internet-of-things (IoT) carries substantial costs by urging households to replace their possessions with new, internet connected versions of everyday objects. Beyond financial, these costs include waste, work to arrange and orchestrate objects to suit households, and that of acquiring new skills. Upcycling domest…

CHI '192nd AuthorBest PaperEarly Childhood Education Technology +2

"Occupational Therapy is Making": Clinical Rapid Prototyping and Digital Fabrication

Consumer-fabrication technologies potentially improve the effectiveness and adoption of assistive technology (AT) by engaging AT users in AT creation. However, little is known about the role of clinicians in this revolution. We investigate clinical AT fabrication by working as expert fabricators for clinicians over a…

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