Royal College of Art

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The RepairBot Framework: Touch-Aware Conversational Agent for Hands on Clothes Repair

Learning clothes repair is challenging for novices, who face interconnected procedural and embodied challenges, especially when learning alone. Existing tools fail to provide holistic support as interactive tutors and lack awareness of the embodied interactions of working with textiles. This paper presents a multi-pha…

CC '25Dark Patterns Recognition +1

Designing Counter-Choreographies: Embodied Choreographic Approaches for Critical Examination of Online Tracking

This paper describes a workshop conducted as part of practice-based research that investigates online tracking algorithms commonly found in everyday web environments. The workshop introduced participants to online tracking algorithms through choreographic lenses. A series of exercises informed a discussion on the topi…

DIS '25Generative AI (Text, Image, Music, Video) +2

Cultural Erosion or Innovation? Artisans’ Attitudes Toward AI-Generated Patterns in Traditional Chinese Subcultures

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI), particularly text-to-image (T2I) generation tools, presents new possibilities for preserving and innovating traditional cultural patterns. However, AI-generated images often lack cultural context, which risks cultural bias and the loss of cultural significance. This study expl…

CHI '23Haptic Wearables +2

FabTouch: A Tool to Enable Communication and Design of Tactile and Affective Fabric Experiences

The tactile experience of fabric is not only a sensory experience but also an affective one. Our choice of fabric products, like clothing, is often based on how they feel. Effectively communicating such experiences is crucial for designing tactile fabric experiences. However, there remains a lack of comprehensive unde…

AUTO_UI '21In-Vehicle Haptic, Audio & Multimodal Feedback +1

Designing for Driver's Emotional Transitions and Rituals

Emotions are a topic of increasing interest in vehicle design and research as they have a substantive impact on people’s behaviour, affecting driving performance and being a source of safety issues particularly on long journeys. However, emotions do not usually occur distinctly and individually and frequently transiti…

CHI '19Desktop 3D Printing & Personal Fabrication +1

My Naturewatch Camera: Disseminating Practice Research with a Cheap and Easy DIY Design

My Naturewatch Camera is an inexpensive wildlife camera that we designed for people to make themselves as a way of promoting engagement with nature and digital making. We aligned its development to the interests of the BBC's Natural History Unit as part of an orchestrated engagement strategy also involving our project…

CHI '18Knowledge Worker Tools & Workflows +1

Exploring New File Metaphors for a Networked World through the File Biography

We present a body of work undertaken in response to the challenge outlined by Harper et al. in their paper, ‘What is a File?’ [9]. Through a conceptual and design-led exploration of new file metaphors, we developed the ‘file biography’, a digital entity that encompasses the provenance of a file and allows the user to…

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Haptic, Force & Physical Feedback

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