Alessandro Soro

schoolQueensland University of Technologybar_chart#954 Global Rank

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#954

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Recent Publications

Exploring Women’s Perspectives on Learning and Trust in Automated Vehicles: A Socio-Ecological Lens

As automated vehicles (AVs) move toward mainstream adoption, understanding how users learn about and build trust in them is critical. Prior research shows that women hold safety concerns and report low trust and familiarity with AVs. While limited exposure is often cited as a cause, growing evidence indicates that w…

CHI '242nd AuthorAutomated Driving Interface & Takeover Design +1

Mentorable Interfaces for Automated Vehicles: A New Paradigm for Designing Learnable Technology for Older Adults

We introduce a conceptual framework exploring the learning methods for older adults in navigating automated vehicle interfaces. Through semi-structured interviews, we observed distinct approaches to learning, and based on these, offer a novel conceptualization of a ‘mentorable’ interface to enhance technology educatio…

DIS '234th AuthorSustainable HCI +2

Calming Down in Lockdown: Rethinking Technologies for a Slower Pace of Life

This study investigated Australian older adults' response to the conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic, the adjustments they made to their activities, technology use, and social relations, to inform how technology design could be inspired by these adaptations. Online interviews revealed that some sorely missed social in…

CHI '204th AuthorDeveloping Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +1

Designing in the Network of Relations for Species Conservation: The Playful Tingtibi Community Birdhouse

This paper investigates connecting people in remote communities through nature in order to foster stewardship and conservation of endangered species. Global citizen science technologies have found success in urban, developed countries, but they typically rely on large distributed populations to gather or analyze data…

CHI '193rd AuthorAging-Friendly Technology Design +2

The Adventures of Older Authors: Exploring Futures through Co-Design Fictions

This paper presents co-design fiction as an approach to engaging users in imagining, envisioning and speculating not just on future technology but future life through co-created fictional works. Design fiction in research is often created or written by researchers. There is relatively little critical discussion of how…

CHI '193rd AuthorChildren & Family IoT +1

Older People Inventing their Personal Internet of Things with the IoT Un-Kit Experience

We introduce the IoT Un-Kit Experience, a co-design approach that engages people in exploring, designing and generating personally meaningful IoT applications and that also serves as a means to explore IoT kit design through in-home workshops. Un-Kit represents a seemingly uncompleted set of sensors, actuators and med…

CHI '185th+ AuthorUbiquitous Computing +2

Internet of Tangible Things: Workshop on Tangible Interaction with the Internet of Things

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) brings abundant new opportunities to create more effective and pleasing tangible user interfaces that capitalize on intuitive interaction in the physical world, whilst utilizing capabilities of sensed data and Internet connectivity. However, with these new opportunities come ne…

CHI '181st AuthorChildren & Family IoT +1

The Ambient Birdhouse: An IoT Device to Discover Birds and Engage with Nature

We introduce the Ambient Birdhouse, a novel IoT design for the home that seeks to encourage awareness and discovery of birds outside. People increasingly have routines and technologies that disconnect them from nature. Moreover birds are hard to come to know, seen but not heard, heard but not seen, or simply around wh…

CHI '182nd AuthorParticipatory Design +1

"Debrief O’Clock": Planning, Recording, and Making Sense of a Day in the Field in Design Research

Design research is generative, intuitive, experiential, and tactical. Documenting the design research process helps to communicate these decisions, judgements, and values that are embodied in design products. Yet, practices for documenting design research are underreported in the CHI community, particularly for immers…

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