Heidi R. Biggs

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Redlining Maps and Terrains of Sustainability: Interdisciplinary Mapping of Racialized Redlining to Present-Day Sustainability Agendas in HCI

We ask how historic redlining, a US government run, racially discriminatory practice of assessing and mapping property values for federally subsidized home loan eligibility in the 1930s, is tied to current issues of sustainability. We frame redlining as a historic data practice, tied to ongoing exposure to environment…

CSCW '211st AuthorSustainable Infrastructures for Rural and Local Computing

Alternatives to Agrilogistics: Designing for Ecological Thinking

Sustainable HCI (SHCI) researchers have historically looked to small and urban farmers to help situate and extend notions of sustainability within economic, social, and political frameworks. In the face of climate change and the Anthropocene, however, we ask how designing like the alternative farming practices of smal…

DIS '211st AuthorDesign Fiction +1

Moving Design Research: GIFs as Research Tools

Animated GIFs are often viewed as a nod to early internet culture or as tools for digital communication, but in this pictorial, we highlight a new use of GIFs, as tools for design research. We walk through four case studies from our own research that exemplify GIFs used throughout the design process as empirical probe…

CHI '21CorrespondingContext-Aware Computing +2

Data Epics: Embarking on Literary Journeys of Home Internet of Things Data

In this paper, we use fiction as a method to complicate the commonplace narratives of data as intangible and objective, in the particular context of Internet of Things (IoT) in the home. We, a team of two design researchers, partnered with a fiction writer and a single IoT enthusiast, Susan, to create The Data Epics:…

CHI '211st AuthorSustainable HCI +1

Watching Myself Watching Birds: Abjection, Ecological Thinking, and Posthuman Design

In recent years, Sustainable HCI researchers have begun to investigate “noticing” as a design research method useful in efforts to decenter the human in design. Through an autoethnographic bird watching practice combining field observation, journaling, and making practices, we examine how noticing affects us and our w…

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