Valentina Nisi

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Values Across Contexts: Understanding How Older Adults Enact What Matters Through Technology

As populations age and technology becomes more pervasive, understanding the alignment between older adults' values and technology design is paramount. More research is needed to understand how older adults’ living contexts shape their values and the use of technology. To address this, through a multi-context study, we…

CHI '263rd AuthorHonorable MentionGenerative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development

Frontend code, replicated across millions of page views, consumes significant energy and contributes directly to digital emissions. Yet current AI coding assistants, such as GitHub Copilot and Amazon CodeWhisperer, emphasize developer speed and convenience, with energy impact not yet a primary focus. At the same time,…

CHI '263rd AuthorParticipatory Design +2

Revisiting Worker-Centered Design: Tensions, Blind Spots, and Action Spaces

Worker-Centered Design (WCD) has gained prominence over the past decade, offering researchers and practitioners ways to engage worker agency and support collective actions for workers. Yet few studies have systematically revisited WCD itself, examining its implementations, challenges, and practical impact. Through a f…

CSCW '251st AuthorTechnology's Impact on (Im)migration

Speculating Migrant Possible Worlds through Magic Machines

Migration and technology studies increasingly recognize the importance of incorporating migrant perspectives in design processes. Speculative design methods have emerged as powerful tools for imagining alternative futures, particularly when working with marginalized communities. However, there remains a gap in underst…

CC '251st AuthorSerious & Functional Games +2

Designing a Digital Game for Natureculture Heritage encounters

Human-computer interaction (HCI) increasingly explores the role of digital games in engaging audiences with cultural heritage. While heritage games exist, few effectively inte- grate participatory, reflective, and speculative storytelling to bridge nature and culture. Moreover, existing methods of- ten lack inclu…

DIS '25CorrespondingHaptic Wearables +2

Critter Connect, wearable design for place-based & multisensory species encounters.

This study presents Critter Connect, a wearable device fostering multispecies relationships in natural ecosystems. Grounded in posthuman theory and More-than-Human geography, the work responds to human-centred design limitations, which often overlook non-visual and non-linguistic modes of interaction. It also highligh…

DIS '25CorrespondingSustainable HCI +2

Making Seafoam: An Autobiographical Design Journey Engaging Local Ecologies Through Making

Sustainable HCI (SHCI) Researchers are increasingly attuned to environmental issues in material creation, guided by a posthumanist framework that decentres the human-maker, accounting for nonhuman agencies. Applying ‘noticing’ as a method, we sourced sea-derived matter—often dismissed as waste—to make a tangible mater…

DIS '252nd AuthorAging-Friendly Technology Design +1

Designing Aging Reflection Probes to Elicit Self-Perception of Aging (SPA) Beliefs of Older Adults in India

Age-related transitions can influence older adults’ internalized aging beliefs, or Self-Perception of Aging (SPA). Previous studies have shown correlations between SPA and the well-being of older adults. However, there is a lack of specific tools to gain an in-depth understanding of SPA beliefs. This pictorial provide…

DIS '25CorrespondingSustainable HCI +2

Designing Biotopia: A Transmedia Experience for Natureculture Heritage and More-than-Human Entanglements

In recent years, HCI research around post-anthropocene design has been gaining traction. Caring and inclusive stances towards more-than-humans, multispecies dialogues, and decentering the human in design are imbuing HCI and other disciplines. Similarly, critical heritage scholars have pointed to the need to re-frame h…

CHI '253rd AuthorImpact of Automation on Work +1

Speculative Job Design: Probing Alternative Opportunities for Gig Workers in an Automated Future

Automation is reshaping the gig economy, raising urgent concerns about worker displacement. With the global rise in gig workers, there is an increasing urgency for HCI and design research to focus on the impact of designing automation technologies on labor dynamics. This study introduces speculative job design researc…

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