Kellie Vella

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Tuning into Everyday Ecologies: Children’s Slow Noticing in Food Gardens

Many children are disconnected from nature and have limited understanding of where their food comes from. Noticing nature, through active sensory engagement, is fundamental for children to learn to appreciate and care for it. Yet little is known about the noticing acts of children (3-5 years) in their everyday nature…

CHI '261st AuthorEarly Childhood Education Technology +2

Balancing Attention Support for Early-learners (BASE) in Digital Technology Interactions: A Framework for Design and Use

Digital technologies increasingly shape young children’s attention, yet current design paradigms often prioritise engagement over developmental appropriateness. This paper responds to growing concerns about the attention economy’s influence on children’s lives. While many theories address attention and digital engagem…

DIS '241st AuthorCitizen Science & Crowdsourced Data +1

Nature Networks: Designing for nature data collection and sharing from local to global

Human-nature relations are formed by the social and economic forces underlying local, physical places. Yet, many citizen science platforms are designed for national or global nature data collection. How local knowledge of wildlife can be effectively assembled to support this is an open question. This study explored w…

DIS '243rd AuthorTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Phenology Circles: A Method to Deepen Relations in More-Than-Human Design Processes

We present phenology circles, a method to deepen relations human and more-than-human in the backstage of participatory design processes. To illustrate the method, we reflect on over two years of activity in an online, global gardening community of practice (our phenology circle) initiated to coordinate and communicate…

DIS '232nd AuthorDesign Fiction +2

Nature Fictions: Designing for a Sustainable Future Through Nature Relations

This paper presents nature fictions, a co-design approach that seeks to highlight relations between people and nonhuman stakeholders in the process of imagining sustainable futures. The work was situated in gardens, to explore nature relations in gardeners' immediate surroundings and to imagine ways of combating the a…

CHI '23CorrespondingUrban Sustainability +2

Pick me up before you go-go: Sociotechnical strategies for waste in music festival campgrounds

Multi-day music festivals have a waste problem with much of it centred around patron campgrounds. Interviews and co-design workshops were conducted with festival patrons (N = 19) and professionals (N = 9). The interviews indicated the factors impacting festival campground waste including the proliferation of cheap ite…

CHI '211st AuthorCitizen Science & Crowdsourced Data +1

Human-Nature Relations in Urban Gardens: Explorations with Camera Traps

As cities grow, their people become increasingly distanced from nature except within private and public green spaces. Sensing technologies provide a means to harness curiosity about the animals living in these spaces, and possibly also connect interest to care. Yet little is known as to how people may use these techno…

CHI '201st AuthorCitizen Science & Crowdsourced Data +2

Ecology Meets Computer Science: Designing Tools to Reconcile People, Data, and Practices

Ecoacoustics draws together computer scientists and ecologists to achieve an understanding of ecosystems and wildlife using acoustic recordings of the environment. Computer scientists are challenged to manage increasingly large datasets while developing analytic and visualisation tools. Ecologists struggle to find and…

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