Awais Hameed Khan

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Serious Games: Charting Refugee Entrepreneurial Journeys Through Novel Analytic Mapping

“More than 90% of global new settlement needs are unmet” according to UNHCR [20]. Among those displaced are refugees and asylum seekers—seeking new life and opportunities in Australia. Despite challenges in reassimilating into foreign society, some strive to become successful entrepreneurs. We conducted semi-struc…

DIS '231st AuthorCircuit Making & Hardware Prototyping +2

The Pragmatics of Sustainable Unmaking: Informing Technology Design through e-Waste Folk Strategies

Technology is becoming increasingly embedded within our material worlds, resulting in an exponential rise in the production and consumption of consumer electronics. Rapid innovations in technological systems reduce technology lifecycles, deprecating digital systems, rendering devices obsolete or incompatible with supp…

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

Participatory Design Tools: Leveraging Materiality and Familiarity to Adapt Unconventional Materials into Design Tools

As participatory design approaches proliferate into mainstream industry practice, it becomes important for designers to consider how design tools, methods and practices can be made more accessible for non-designers—fostering participatory mindsets. We explore how materiality and familiarity of design tools impact part…

CHI '232nd AuthorMakerspace Culture +3

Democratizing Making: Scaffolding Participation Using e-Waste to Engage Under-resourced Communities in Technology Design

Maker culture and DIY practices are central to democratizing the design of technology; enabling non-designers (future end-users) to actively participate in the design process. However, little is known about how individuals from under-resourced communities and low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds, can practically…

DIS '211st AuthorOnline Learning & MOOC Platforms +2

Speculative Design for Education: Using Participatory Methods to Map Design Challenges and Opportunities in Pakistan

The global education landscape continues to be disrupted by COVID-19. The unique circumstances created by this crisis has led to unexpected opportunities to leverage innovative uses of technologies that can radically innovate education service delivery. We map out the context of Pakistan – a country where challenges p…

CHI '212nd AuthorMotion Sickness & Passenger Experience +2

Neighbourhood Wattch: Using Speculative Design to Explore Values Around Curtailment and Consent in Household Energy Interactions

Smart energy technologies provide new opportunities for network demand management, while generating data that can provide inference into household activities and which is increasingly valuable for user profiling and targeted marketing. This paper explores the human values implicated by smart energy technologies as ene…

DIS '201st AuthorPrivacy by Design & User Control +1

Disconnecting: Towards a Semiotic Framework for Personal Data Trails

Data collection from users’ interactions with ubiquitous computing is a wicked problem for design. Despite legislation increasingly requiring “informed” consent, the apathy born from a constant bombardment of consent notifications means many users remain largely uninformed about the collection, manipulation and dissem…

DIS '201st AuthorUser Research Methods (Interviews, Surveys, Observation) +1

Tracing Design: Practitioner Accounts of Design Value, Documentation & Practices

The role of design in organizations has risen in prominence since the turn of the century. Our collective understanding of this role, identification of designerly practices, and ability to trace their value and influence within an organizational landscape however remains problematic. Both industry and academia have ma…

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