University of Galway

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Designing to Support Local Stakeholders in Negotiating about Future Sustainable and Healthy Food Systems

HCI has studied food practices and speculative food futures, and drawn on tools to support, for example, decision-making and participatory futuring in relation to food. However, there is little understanding of how quantitatively-grounded tools like interactive simulation models can mediate collaborative reasoning abo…

CHI '23Community Engagement & Civic Technology +1

Different Together: Design for Radical Placemaking

This work responds to isolating urban places, and contributes new ways for thinking about placemaking. Progressing through autoethnography and prototyping, we critique design proposals with Lefebvre’s theory of utopia. There inhabitants can enjoy and shape their place together without risking depletion of their abilit…

CHI '22Participatory Design +2

Negotiating sustainable futures in communities through participatory speculative design and experiments in living

This paper responds to sustainable HCI’s call to design long-term participatory projects with grassroots communities to counter the local effects of climate change and support more viable practices. We contribute a methodological approach to participatory speculative design as a series of interrelated experiments in l…

CHI '21Community Engagement & Civic Technology +1

Sustaining a Networked Community Resource: Findings from a Longitudinal Situated Display Deployment

Configuring community technology to ensure its sustainability has proved challenging. We present a 3-year longitudinal study and evaluation of two independent situated community display networks in rural contexts. We describe how the design of the display systems evolved to reflect the needs and desires of the communi…

CHI '20Smart Home Interaction Design

"No powers, man!": A Student Perspective on Designing University Smart Building Interactions

Smart buildings offer an opportunity for better performance and enhanced experience by contextualising services and interactions to the needs and practices of occupants. Yet, this vision is limited by established approaches to building management, delivered top-down through professional facilities management teams, op…

CHI '18Context-Aware Computing +2

ThermoKiosk: Investigating Roles for Digital Surveys of Thermal Experience in Workplace Comfort Management

Thermal comfort in shared workplaces is often contested and impacts productivity, wellbeing, and energy use. Yet, subjective and situated comfort experiences are rarely captured and engaged with. In this paper, we explore roles for digital surveys in capturing and visualising subjective experiences of comfort in situ…

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2018-2026

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Environment, Sustainability & Ecological Design

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Community Engagement & Civic Technology

Crowdsourcing, Collaboration & Remote Work

Citizen Science & Crowdsourced Data

Personal Informatics & Self-Tracking

Behavior Change & Reflection Technology

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