Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk

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Roaming with a Robot: Analyzing the Experiences and Understanding the Dimensions of Designing Human-Robot Walking Interactions

Walking is an essential aspect of daily life, while walking with companions offers numerous benefits. Recently developed mobile robots, through their ability to navigate challenging terrains, open new possibilities for outdoor walking companionship. Yet, little is known about how such companions shape the human walkin…

CHI '265th+ AuthorHaptic Wearables +2

“Standing Out While Blending In:” Learning from Experts about Designing Fashionable Wearable Experiences

This study examines fashionability in computational fashion wearables (CFWs) through the reflective accounts of ten academic researcher–designers. While wearables are often studied for technical functions, fashionability, a key to adoption and sustained use, has received less attention. Using semi-structured interview…

CHI '252nd AuthorGame UX & Player Behavior +2

Human-Nature Relationships through Video Games: An Exploration of Players’ Sense-Making

Technology profoundly mediates how people feel, think and engage with nature. Here, video games are projected to become one of the most important mediums to facilitate digital human-nature interaction. In this paper, we explore how 16 players make sense of nature-in-games. Drawing from their own lived experiences, we…

DIS '245th+ AuthorParticipatory Design +1

Seeding a Repository of Methods-To-Be for Nature-Entangled Design Research

We share an emergent repository of nature-entangled methods-to-be shared, experimented with, and discussed during a conference workshop. We present them in-use, as they are in formation. We do not seek to theorise or even fully articulate these methods-to-be. Rather, to make them approachable and actionable for others…

CHI '242nd AuthorGame UX & Player Behavior +2

Ecological In/Congruence: Becoming Sensitised to Nature in Video Games through Humanistic First-Person Research

The ongoing ecological crisis is the current biggest threat for our species. As we attempt to address the situation through policy, interventions, and education, we urgently need to understand how people encounter and relate to nature: As it is, in the world, and portrayed through different media. As an exemplary medi…

DIS '232nd AuthorTechnology Ethics & Critical HCI +2

Playful Inspiration for a New Wave of Joyful Forest Technology

Here we present an exploration into the playful potential of forests and how interactive tech might respond to it. Through first-person, speculative, and situated generative design methods, we engaged with a range of forestry activities to explore their capacity to afford experiences based on joy and care. An analysis…

DIS '235th+ AuthorParticipatory Design +1

Designing and Using the Wild Probes Toolkit (v1) to Co-Design From-the-Wild

Recent research calls for new design methods and tools that respond to the idiosyncrasies of emergent design spaces. Here we address one of them: the design of nature-related technology. To facilitate increasingly situated practices in this space, we created the Wild Probes: a set of probing tools for displacing co-de…

CHI '232nd AuthorSustainable HCI +1

Virtual and Augmented Reality for Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Review

In recent years, extended reality (XR) technology has seen a rise in use in environmental subjects, i.e., climate change or biodiversity loss, as a potential tool to inform and engage the public with current and future environmental issues. However, research on the potential of XR technology for environmental sustaina…

CHI '231st AuthorShape-Changing Interfaces & Soft Robotic Materials +1

Towards Designing Playful Bodily Extensions: Learning from Expert Interviews

Interactive technologies offer novel opportunities for physically extending our bodies, with the most prominent examples being prosthetics along with systems emerging from the wearables community. However, most such systems appear to focus on instrumental benefits, missing out on the opportunity to use bodily extensio…

CHI '233rd AuthorSustainable HCI +1

Longing to be the Mountain: A Scoping Review about Human-Nature Interaction for Health Purposes

Engaging with nature enriches people’s life greatly, and it is a particularly powerful wellbeing activity. Unsurprisingly, researchers in HCI and beyond seek to augment and extend the relationship people have with nature through technology, to positively enhance their health as a result. In this paper, we report on a…

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