Vasiliki Tsaknaki

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Estrangement through Silence

How can we cultivate deeper attunement to one another, ourselves, and the environment that can, in turn, inform and enrich design? Over the course of four workshops conducted across 1.5 years – primarily outdoors – the authors engaged in prolonged periods of shared silence. This collective silence functioned as an est…

CHI '253rd AuthorHonorable MentionCognitive Impairment & Neurodiversity (Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia) +2

The Centers and Margins of Modeling Humans in Well-being Technologies

This paper critically examines the machine learning (ML) modeling of humans in three case studies of well-being technologies. Through a critical technical approach, it examines how these apps were experienced in daily life (technology in use) to surface breakdowns and to identify the assumptions about the “human” body…

DIS '234th AuthorDesign Fiction +1

Fabulation as an Approach for Design Futuring

Envisioning alternative futures and desirable worlds is a core element of design that must be cultivated, especially when a deep transition of practices, values, and power is necessary for vibrant and just future lifeworlds. In this paper, we contribute towards fabulation as an approach for design futuring that foregr…

CHI '232nd AuthorHuman-Nature Relationships (More-than-Human Design) +1

LYDSPOR: An Urban Sound Experience Weaving Together Past and Present Through Vibrating Bodies

In this paper we present LYDSPOR; a site-specific sound experience, created in Elsinore, Denmark, consisting of two physical installations and an app-based soundwalk, which together allow people to feel and sense in their bodies certain narrative fragments of the history of the city. LYDSPOR is the result of a 1,5 yea…

CHI '232nd AuthorReproductive & Women's Health +2

Walking Through Normativities of Reproductive Bodies: A Method for Critical Analysis of Tracking Applications

Menstruation and fertility tracking applications are of increasing concern in HCI research, as their use becomes more widespread. Methods are needed to understand how such applications become entangled in everyday practices. While these apps promise increased self-knowledge of reproductive potential by collecting inti…

CHI '223rd AuthorHonorable MentionUniversal & Inclusive Design +2

Diffraction-in-action: Designerly Explorations of Agential Realism Through Lived Data

Recent design research has shown an interest in diffraction and agential realism, which promise to offer generative alternatives when designing with data that resist treating data as objective or neutral. We explore engaging diffractively with `lived data' to surface felt and prospective aspects of data as it is entan…

DIS '21CorrespondingHaptic Wearables +1

The Breathing Wings: An Autobiographical Soma Design Exploration of Touch Qualities through Shape-Change Materials

Engaging with new types of programmable and smart materials in interaction design requires that we develop a deeper understanding of the somatic experiences that such materials can evoke. This pictorial presents an autobiographical exploration grounded on soma design methods that led to the Breathing Wings wearable: C…

CHI '214th AuthorHonorable MentionFull-Body Interaction & Embodied Input

Articulating Soma Experiences using Trajectories

In this paper, we reflect on the applicability of the concept of trajectories to soma design. Soma design is a first-person design method which considers users' subjective somatic or bodily experiences of a design. Due to bodily changes over time, soma experiences are inherently temporal. Current instruments for artic…

CHI '211st AuthorShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +1

“Feeling the sensor feeling you”: A soma design exploration on sensing non-habitual breathing

Though seemingly straightforward and habitual, breathing is a complex bodily function. Problematising the space of designing for breathing as a non-habitual act pertaining to different bodies or situations, we conducted a soma design exploration together with a classical singer. Reflecting on how sensors could capture…

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