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Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Primlani, N., Darzentas, D. P., Lindley, J., Coulton, P., Sailaja, N., Urquhart, L. D., Castle-Green, T., Stead, M., Lechelt, S., Owen, V., & Dubey, N. (2024, October). Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife. Presented at NordiCHI Adjunct 2024: Nordic Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Uppsala, Sweden

As the importance of minimising e-waste and increasing sustainability increase, exploring the design matters impacting the transience of digital technologies has become a key concern. In this workshop we will explore this through the metaphorical len... Read More about Greetings from Silicon Heaven: Postcards from the IoT Afterlife.

Implementing responsible innovation: the role of the meso-level(s) between project and organisation (2024)
Journal Article
Stahl, B. C., Portillo, V., Wagner, H., Craigon, P. J., Darzentas, D., De Ossorno Garcia, S., Dowthwaite, L., Greenhalgh, C., Middleton, S. E., Nichele, E., Wagner, C., & Webb, H. (2024). Implementing responsible innovation: the role of the meso-level(s) between project and organisation. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 11(1), Article 2370934. https://doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2024.2370934

Much of academic discussion of responsible innovation (RI) has focused on RI integration into research projects. In addition, significant attention has also been paid to RI structures and policies at the research policy and institutional level. This... Read More about Implementing responsible innovation: the role of the meso-level(s) between project and organisation.

Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures: Aligning Legal and Design Research Agendas. (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, L. D., Lechelt, S., Terras, M., Sailaja, N., Rezk, A. M., Castle-Green, T., Darzentas, D. P., Primlani, N., Owen, V., & Stead, M. (2024, July). Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures: Aligning Legal and Design Research Agendas. Presented at DIS '24: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

The way consumer Internet of Things (IoT) devices are built is leading to electronic waste (eWaste) growth. This arises from planned obsolescence, bundling of ‘smartness’ creating more routes to device failure, and lacking hardware modularity and rep... Read More about Creating Sustainable Internet of Things Futures: Aligning Legal and Design Research Agendas..

UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Castle-Green, T., Coulton, P., Stead, M., Lindley, J. G., Urquhart, L. D., & Darzentas, D. (2023, October). UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. Presented at UbiComp/ISWC '23: The 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico

IoT products are increasingly becoming the default, with non-IoT versions of common hardware (e.g., TVs and printers) harder to find. Alongside this adoption surge, lack of support, outdated security, and planned obsolescence present concerning susta... Read More about UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices.

Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
(2023). Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3616195

Audio Mostly is an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound that prides itself on embracing applied theory and reflective practice. Its annual gatherings bring together thinkers and doers from academia and indus... Read More about Proceedings of the 18th International Audio Mostly Conference.

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., Ito-Jaeger, S., Darzentas, D. P., Webb, H., Jacobs, R., Atabey, A., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Winklhofer, H., Urquhart, L. D., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023, July). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. Presented at 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pitsburgh, PA, US

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distingui... Read More about “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories.

C&C Festival of Hybrid Gifting (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Thorn, E., Glover, K., Gibson, R., …Wagner, H. G. (2023). C&C Festival of Hybrid Gifting. In C&C '23: Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition. https://doi.org/10.1145/3591196.3593052

This workshop uses the outputs of a two-year Research through Design project as a springboard for bringing together a community of researchers interested in Hybrid Gifting. We have discovered that the many creative and socio-psychological processes i... Read More about C&C Festival of Hybrid Gifting.

Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals (2023)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Manninen, K., Martindale, S., Hazzard, A., Martinez Avila, J. P., Tennent, P., Spence, J., Castle-Green, T., Brundell, P., Barnard, P., & Darzentas, D. P. (2023). Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 7(CSCW1), Article 65. https://doi.org/10.1145/3579498

Volunteering benefits recipients, volunteers, communities, and society, while digital technologies establish new opportunities for virtual volunteering. We describe how volunteers transitioned the UK's long-established Oxjam grassroots music festival... Read More about Infrastructures for Virtual Volunteering at Online Music Festivals.

Distance: digital immersive technologies and craft engagement (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Panneels, I., Helgason, I., Smyth, M., Darzentas, D., Hocking, L., & Shillito, A.-M. (2023, April). Distance: digital immersive technologies and craft engagement. Presented at Cumulus Conference: Connectivity and Creativity in times of Conflict, Antwerp, Belgium

The DISTANCE project (digital immersive technologies and craft engagement) is a novel practice-led experiment in the use of immersive technology to enable dispersed craft practitioners to apply their haptic skills and material knowledge in a digital... Read More about Distance: digital immersive technologies and craft engagement.