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ACM TOCHI
The call for papers for the TOCHI Special Issue on "Unmaking & HCI: Techniques, Technologies, Materials, and Philosophies Beyond Making" is live! Submissions due May 30. Katherine and Eric P. will serve as guest editors alongside Steven Jackson, Kristina Lindström, Samar Sabie, Asa Ståhl, and Ron Wakkary.
ACM CHI
All 4 papers we submitted to ACM CHI have been conditionally accepted! So excited to share our work on decomposable energy storage, lotion-mediated on-skin interactions, version control for creative practices, and a documentation tool for HCI classes. Pre-prints forthcoming.
Berkeley Center for New Media
To support travel for his upcoming talk at SIGCIS 2022, the Berkeley Center for New Media has awarded Eric Rawn a grant of $500. This talk presents Eric's ongoing work in the intellectual history of HCI.
IEEE Spectrum
Wireless Heater Made From a Leaf Skeleton Is Fully Biodegradable. A leaf, shellfish bits, paper, and silver ink are all you need for a reusable wireless heater
Hybrid Ecologies Lab
Our C&C paper, "Creative and Motivational Strategies Used by Expert Creative Practitioners," has been awarded the Best Paper award at C&C! We're looking forward to presenting this work in-person in Venice, Italy June 20-23.
ACM History Committee
Hybrid Ecologies member Eric Rawn wins an ACM History Committee Fellowship for his research proposal! To encourage historical research, the ACM History Committee supports up to four research projects each year with awards of up to $4,000 each.
ACM CHI 2022
Our CHI paper, "Towards Decomposable Interactive Systems: Design of a Backyard-Degradable Wireless Heating Interface," has been awarded an Honorable Mention at CHI! We're looking forward to presenting this work in-person in New Orleans on May 2.
ACM CHI 2022
Don't miss out on our incredible CHI 2022 workshop on UNMAKING! Beyond HCI, design, and digital fab an amazing team of practitioners (and hopefully you) will debate the future of unmaking – from art to epistemologies to controlled explosions.
Stanford HCI Seminar
This talk presents and critiques a new body of evolving collaborative work at the intersection of art, computer science, material science, and design research.
Snap Research
Molly Jane Nicholas is awarded a Snap Research Fellowship for her work in performative augmented reality!
The Hybrid Ecologies Lab (H•E•L) explores scientific research, design, and art through the innovation, development, deployment, and evaluation of novel physical devices and interactive systems that advance our computing culture, encourage broad participation by non-experts within science and engineering, improve human health and well-being, and provoke critical debate and inquiry concerning our existing and emerging technological society.
CHI 2023
Eric Rawn, Jingyi Li, Eric Paulos, Sarah E. Chasins
CHI 2023
Sarah Sterman, Molly Jane Nicholas, Janaki Vivrekar, Jessica Mindel, and Eric Paulos