Bettina Nissen

schoolUniversity of Edinburghbar_chart#1640 Global Rank

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#1640

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Recent Publications

Holding MenstaRay: Expressing Menstrual Pain through Tactile and Knitted Soft Robotic Interactions

Menstrual pain is an embodied, unpredictable, and diverse lived experience. However, current menstrual tracking technologies mainly adopt medicalised and quantitative approaches, reducing pain to numerical data, concealing its organic and messy nature. To uncover the felt, lived experience of pain, we explored soft ro…

CHI '263rd AuthorDeveloping Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +2

Digital territories: Entwining technology with Indigenous knowledges

Mainstream digital technologies tend to be designed without reflection on how the way they structure knowledge can decontextualise it from its surroundings, affecting different cultural groups. In this work, we discuss how community-led databases could be created while accounting for Indigenous values and land-based w…

CHI '242nd AuthorBest PaperCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +2

Cosmovision Of Data: An Indigenous Approach to Technologies for Self-Determination

This paper analyses practices of data perception and usage, as well as ongoing and envisioned community technology projects carried out by a Masewal Indigenous group in Mexico through their union of cooperatives, Tosepan. Through fieldwork interviews, Masewal participants expressed how they have been appropriating exi…

CHI '191st AuthorPrivacy by Design & User Control +1

Should I Agree? Delegating Consent Decisions Beyond the Individual

Obtaining meaningful user consent is increasingly problematic in a world of numerous, heterogeneous digital services. Current approaches (e.g. agreeing to Terms and Conditions) are rooted in the idea of individual control despite growing evidence that users do not (or cannot) exercise such control in informed ways. We…

CHI '182nd AuthorTime-Series & Network Graph Visualization +2

HCI for Blockchain: Studying, Designing, Critiquing and Envisioning Distributed Ledger Technologies

This workshop aims to develop an agenda within the CHI community to address the emergence of blockchain, or distributed ledger technologies (DLTs). As blockchains emerge as a general purpose technology, with applications well beyond cryptocurrencies, DLTs present exciting challenges and opportunities for developing ne…

CHI '181st AuthorCitizen Science & Crowdsourced Data +1

GeoCoin: Supporting Ideation and Collaborative Design with Smart Contracts

Design and HCI researchers are increasingly working with complex digital infrastructures, such as cryptocurrencies, distributed ledgers and smart contracts. These technologies will have a profound impact on digital systems and their audiences. However, given their emergent nature and technical complexity, involving no…

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