Publications
2022
_ Brian Kinnee, Daniela Rosner, and Audrey Desjardins (2022)
Sonic Technologies of a Queer Breakup, In Proc. DIS'22, New York, ACM Press.
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_ Neilly H. Tan, Richmond Y. Wong, Audrey Desjardins, Sean A. Munson, James Pierce. (2022)
Monitoring Pets, Deterring Intruders, and Casually Spying on Neighbors: Everyday Uses of Smart Home Cameras, In Proc. CHI'22, New York, ACM Press.
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_ Neilly H. Tan, Brian Kinnee, Dana Langseth, Sean A. Munson, Audrey Desjardins. (2022)
Critical-Playful Speculations with Cameras in the Home, In Proc. CHI'22, New York, ACM Press.
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_ Jordan Wirfs-Brock, Maxene Graze, Laura Devendorf, Audrey Desjardins, Visda Goudarzi, Mikhaila Friske, Brian C Keegan. (2022)
Sketching Across the Senses: Exploring Sensory Translation as a Generative Practice for Designing Data Representations, Workshop at the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'22), ACM Press
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2021
_ Desjardins, A., Tomico, O., Lucero, A., Cecchinato, M., and Neustaedter, C. (2021)
Introduction to the Special Issue on First-Person Methods in HCI, In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). Volume 28, no.6 (December 2021), ACM Press. Article No.: 37. 1-12.
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_ Howell, N., Desjardins, A., and Fox, S. (2021)
Cracks in the Success Narrative: Rethinking Failure in Design Research through a Retrospective Trioethnography, In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). Volume 28, no.6 (December 2021), ACM Press. Article No.: 42. 1-31.
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_ Desjardins, A., and Biggs, H. (2021)
Data Epics: Embarking on Literary Journeys with Home Internet of Things Data, In Proc. CHI'21, New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 26.3%)
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_ Desjardins, A., Psarra, A., Whiting, B. (2021)
Voices and Voids: Subverting Voice Assistant Systems through Performative Experiments, In Proc. C&C'21, New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 23.1%)
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_ Biggs, H., Key, C., and Desjardins, A. and Psarra, A. (2021)
Moving Research: Animated Gifs as materials in Research Through Design, In Proc. DIS'21, New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 26.7%) ** AWARDED: HONORABLE MENTION
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_ Viny, J., Cooper, L. and Desjardins, A. (2021)
Investigating Opaque Infrastructures With The Desktop Odometer, In Proc. DIS'21, New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 26.7%)
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_ Lucero, A., Desjardins, A. and Neustaedter, C. (2021).
Longitudinal First-Person HCI Research Methods. In Advances in Longitudinal HCI Research, edited by Evangelos Karapanos, Jens Gerken, Jesper Kjeldskov, and Mikael B. Skov, 79-99. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Cham: Springer International Publishing
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_ Mengist, N. Sidibe, M., Biggs, H., Fox, T., Thurtle, P., Desjardins, A. (2021).
World Building for Transcosmic Potentials: Meaningful Making in Undergraduate Education. In Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education. Volume 20, Number 1, 29-47
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2020
_ Desjardins, A., and Key, C. (2020)
Parallels, Tangents, and Loops: Reflections on the 'Through' Part of RtD, In Proc. DIS'20 (pictorial), New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 27%) ** Awarded: HONORABLE MENTION
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_ Biggs, H., and Desjardins, A.(2020).
Crafting an Embodied Speculation: An Account of Prototyping Methods. In Proc. DIS'20 (pictorial), New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 27%)
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_ Desjardins, A., Biggs, H., Key, C., Viny, J.E. (2020).
IoT Data in the Home: Observing Entanglements and Drawing New Encounters. In Proc. CHI'20, New York, ACM Press, 1-13. (acceptance rate: 24.3%)
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_ Biggs, H., and Desjardins, A.(2020).
High Water Pants: Designing Embodied Environmental
Speculation. In Proc. CHI'20, New York, ACM Press, 1-13. (acceptance rate: 24.3%)
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_ Viny, J., and Desjardins, A. (2020)
Investigating Opaque Infrastructures: The Desktop Odometer, In Proc. DIS'20 (Demo), New York, ACM Press.
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2019
_ Desjardins, A., Viny, J.E., Key, C., Johnston, N. (2019).
Alternative Avenues for IoT: Designing with Non-Stereotypical Homes. In Proc. CHI'19, New York, ACM Press, 1-13. (acceptance rate: 23.8%) ** Awarded: HONORABLE MENTION
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_ Desjardins, A., Key, C., Biggs, H.R., Aschenbeck, K. (2019).
Bespoke Booklets: A Method for Situated Co-Speculation. In Proc. DIS'19, New York, ACM Press, in press. (acceptance rate: 25%)
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_ Desjardins, A., Tihanyi, T. (2019).
ListeningCups: A Case of Data Tactility and Data Stories. In Proc. DIS'19 (pictorial), New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 27%)
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_ Key, C. and Desjardins, A. (2019).
REP(AIR): An Olfactory Interface For Bike Maintenance. In Proc. RtD'19, 1-16. (acceptance rate: 15%)
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_ Jain, D., Desjardins, A., Findlater, L., and Froehlich, J. (2019).
Autoethnography of a Hard of Hearing Traveler. In Proc. ASSETS'19, New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate: 26%) ** BEST PAPER NOMINEE
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_ Andersen, K., Boucher, A., Chatting, D., Desjardins, A., Devendorf, L., Gaver, W., Jenkins, T., Odom, W., Pierce, J., Vallgarda, A. (2019).
Doing Things with Research thru Design: With What, with Whom, and Towards What Ends?, Workshop at the Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI'19), 1-8. (acceptance rate: 31%)
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_ Lucero, A., Desjardins, A., Neustaedter, C., Höök, K., Hassenzahl, M., Cecchinato, M.E. (2019).
A Sample of One: First-Person Research Methods in HCI, Workshop at the Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'19), in press. (acceptance rate: 69%)
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2018
_ Desjardins, A., and Ball, A. (2018).
Revealing Tensions in Autobiographical Design in HCI. In Proc. DIS 2018, New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate 23%)
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_ Desjardins, A., Wang, X., and Wakkary, R. (2018).
A sustainable Place: Everyday Designers as Place Makers. In Digital Technology and Sustainability: Embracing the Paradox, Routledge.
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_ Hauser, S., Wakkary, R., Odom, W., Verbeek, P.-P., Desjardins, A., Lin, H., Dalton, M., Schilling, M., de Boer, G. (2018).
Deployments of the table-non-table: A Reflection on the Relation Between Theory and Things in the Practice of Design Research. In Proc. CHI 2018, New York, ACM Press. (acceptance rate 26%)
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_ Ball, A., and Desjardins, A. (2018).
Dwelling Amongst a Ludic Internet of Things, DEMO HOUR, Interactions 25, no. 6 (November 2018), New York, ACM Press, 12-13.
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2017
_ Desjardins, A., Wakkary, R., Odom, W., Lin, H., and Schilling, M. (2017).
Exploring DIY tutorials as a way to disseminate research through design, Interactions Magazine, ACM Press, 78-82.
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_ Chatting, D., Wilkinson, G., Marshall, K., Desjardins, A., Green, A., Kirk, A., and Boucher, A. (2017).
Making Home: Asserting Agency in the Age of IoT, Workshop at CHI 2017
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2016
_ Desjardins, A. (2016).
Design-in-Living, PhD Dissertation,
School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University.
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_ Desjardins, A., and Wakkary, R. (2016).
Living in a Prototype: A Reconfigured Space, In Proc CHI 2016, New York, ACM Press, 5274-5285. ** Awarded: HONORABLE MENTION (top 4% of all submitted papers).
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_ Desjardins, A., Wakkary, R. and Odom, W. (2016).
Behind the Lens: A Visual Exploration of Epistemological Commitments in HCI Research on the Home, Pictorial DIS 2016, New York, ACM Press, 360-376. (acceptance rate 31%). ** Awarded: HONORABLE MENTION (top 5% of all submissions).
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_ Desjardins, A., Greenberg, S., Wakkary, R., and Hambelton, J. (2016).
Avalanche Beacon Parks: Skill Development and Team Coordination in a Technological Training Ground. In Proc CSCW 2016, New York, ACM Press, 872-886. (acceptance rate 25%)
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_ Desjardins, A., Greenberg, S., Wakkary, R., and Hambelton, J. (2016).
Avalanche Beacon Parks: Skill Development and Team Coordination. In Proc ISSW 2016, Breckenridge, Colorado, (in press).
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Poster
_ Wakkary, R., Lin, H., Mortimer, S., Low, L., Desjardins, A., Doyle, K., and Robbins, P. (2016).
Productive Frictions: Moving from Digital to Material Prototyping and Low-Volume Production for Design Research, In Proc. DIS 2016, New York, ACM Press, 1258-1269. (acceptance rate 26%).
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_ Odom, W., Wakkary, R., Lim, Y.-k., Desjardins, A., Hengeveld, B., and Banks, R. (2016).
From Research Prototype to Research Product, In Proc CHI 2016, New York, ACM Press, 2549-2561.
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_ Desjardins, A. (2016).
Lessons from Living In A Prototype, for the workshop on 'Object Outcomes: Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research', Workshop at CHI'16.
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2015
_ Wakkary, R., Desjardins, A., and Hauser, S. (2015).
Unselfconscious Interaction: A Conceptual Construct, Interacting with Computers, July 17, 2015, iwv018. 1-20.
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_ Desjardins, A., Wakkary, R., and Odom, W. (2015).
Investigating Genres and Perspectives in HCI Research on the Home, In Proc CHI 2015, New York, ACM Press, 3073-3082.
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_ Wakkary, R., Lorenz Schilling, M., Dalton, M., Hauser, S., Desjardins, A., Zhang, X., and Lin, H. (2015).
Tutorial Authorship and Hybrid Designers: The Joy (and Frustration) of DIY Tutorials, In Proc CHI 2015, New York, ACM Press, 609-618.
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_ Wang, X., Neustaedter, C., Wakkary, R., and Desjardins, A. (2015).
Information Sharing, Scheduling, and Awareness in Community Gardening Collaboration, In Proc C&T 2015, New York, ACM Press, 79-88.
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_ Desjardins, A., Hauser, S., McRae, J.A., Ormond, C.G.A., Rogers, D. and Zandvliet, D.B. (2015).
Harnessing youth activism within undergraduate education - A Case study of the Change Lab,
In Mueller, M.P. & Tippins, D. (Eds.) Ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism: Situated tensions for science education. New York: Springer. 349-361.
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_ Wakkary, R., Odom, W., and Desjardins, A. (2015).
On design artifacts as sites for intermediate level knowledge production in interaction design, for the workshop on 'Knowledge Production in Interaction Design', Workshop at CHI'15.
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2014
_ Desjardins, A. Neustaedter, C., Greenberg, S. and Wakkary, R. (2014).
Collaboration Surrounding Beacon Use During Companion Avalanche Rescues, Proc CSCW 2014, New York, ACM Press, 877-887. ** Awarded: HONORABLE MENTION
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_ Wakkary, R., Desjardins, A., Odom, W., Hauser, S., and Aflatoony, L. (2014).
Eclipse: Eliciting the Subjective Qualities of Public Places, Pictorial DIS 2014, New York, ACM Press. 151-160.
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_ Linehan, C., Kirman, B., Reeves, S., Blythe, M., Tanenbaum, J., Desjardins, A., and Wakkary, R. (2014).
Alternate Endings: Using Fiction to Explore Design Futures, Workshop at CHI 2014.
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_ Lyons, K., Kim, S. W., Seko, S., Nguyen, D., Desjardins, A., Vidal, M., Dobbelstein, D., and Rubin, J. (2014).
Loupe: A Handheld Near-Eye Display, UIST, ACM Press, 351-354.
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_ Dalton, M. A., Desjardins, A., and Wakkary, R. (2014).
From DIY Tutorials to DIY Recipes, Proc EA CHI 2014, New York, ACM Press. 1405-1410.
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Poster
_ Hauser, S., Desjardins, A., and Wakkary, R. (2014).
SFUture - Envisioning a Sustainable University Campus in 2065, Proc EA DIS 2014, New York, ACM Press. 29-32.
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2013
_ Wakkary, R., Desjardins, A., Hauser, S. and Maestri, L. (2013).
A Sustainable Design Fiction: Green Practices, In ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), Special Issue: Sustainable HCI through Everyday Practices. 20, no.4 (September 2013), ACM Press. 23:1-23:34.
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_ Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R. (2013).
Manifestations of Everyday Design: Guiding Goals and Motivations, Proc C&C 2013, New York, ACM Press, 253-262.
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_ Tanenbaum, T., Williams, A., Desjardins, A., and Tanenbaum, K. (2013).
Democratizing Technology: Pleasure, Utility and Expressiveness in DIY and Maker Practice, Proc CHI 2013, New York, ACM Press, 2603-2612.
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_ Hauser, S., Desjardins, A., and Wakkary, R. (2013).
Skateboards as a Mobile Technology, Proc EA CHI 2013, New York, ACM Press, 1419-1424.
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Poster
_ Hauser, S., Desjardins, A., and Wakkary, R. (2013).
Design Activism in the HCI Classroom, Proc EA CHI 2013, New York, ACM Press. 2119-2128.
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_ Tanenbaum, T., Desjardins, A., and Tanenbaum, K. (2013).
Steampunking Interaction Design: Principles for Envisioning through Imaginative Practice, Interactions Magazine 20, 3, ACM Press, 28-33.
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_ Hauser, S., Desjardins, A., and Wakkary, R. (2013).
Rethinking and Envisioning Sustainable HCI and the Role of Interaction Design, for the workshop on 'Post-Sustainability', Workshop at CHI'13.
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2012
_ Desjardins, A. (2012).
Everyday Design: Comparing Families, Hobbyist Jewellers, and Steampunk Enthusiasts, Master Thesis, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University.
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_ Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R. (2012).
Exquisite Corpses that Explore Interactions, Proc EA CHI 2012, New York, ACM Press, 1517-1522.
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_ Zhang, X., Wakkary, R., Maestri, L., Desjardins, A. (2012).
Memory-storming: Externalizing and Sharing Designers' Personal Experiences, Proc DIS 2012, New York, ACM Press, pp 524-533.
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_ Wakkary, R., Desjardins, A., Muise, K., Tanenbaum, K., & Hatala, K. (2012)
Situating the Sociability of Interactive Museum Guides
, HERITAGE AND SOCIAL MEDIA - Understanding and Experiencing Heritage in A Participatory Culture, London: Routledge, pp 217-238.
_ Maestri, L., Desjardins, A., and Zhang, X. (2012).
Designing with Defamiliarization: Projects from the Everyday Design Studio, for the workshop on 'Defamiliarisation in Innovation and Usability', Workshop at CHI'12.
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_ Maestri, L., and Desjardins, A. (2012).
Understanding Materiality through the Techniques of Everyday Practices, for the workshop on 'From Materials to Materiality', Workshop at CHI'12.
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2011
_ Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R. (2011).
How Children Represent Sustainability in the Home, In Proc Interaction Design for Children (IDC) 2011, New York, ACM Press, pp 37-45.
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_ Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R. (2011).
Children's Drawing and Telling of Sustainability in the Home, Proc EA CHI 2011, New York, ACM Press, pp 1411-1416.
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Poster
_ Desjardins, A. and Wakkary, R. (2011).
Exploring Aesthetics of Interaction in Computational Tangible Artifacts, Second Annual GRAND Conference 2011, Vancouver, May 12-14, 2011.
Reviewed Talks
2020
_ Desjardins, A., Psarra, A., and Whiting, B. (2020).
Everyday Voices and Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Voice Interaction Data as Performance
. Artist Talk. ISEA'20.
Press
November 20, 2020.
Psarra, Afroditi & Desjardins, Audrey & Whiting, Bonnie. Voices+Voids: Reclaiming and Transcoding Our Data as Performance at Seattle Channel
May, 2019.
SFU SIAT Alumni Spotlight
June, 2016.
Got featured in SIAT Spotlight for our honorable mention award at DIS 2016 for Behind the Lens: A Visual Exploration of Epistemological Commitments in HCI Research on the Home
May, 2016.
New hire announcement for my new position as an assistant professor of interaction design at University of Washington in the School of Art + Art History + Design.
February, 2016.
Got featured in SIAT Spotlight for our honorable mention award at CHI 2016 for Living in a Prototype: A Reconfigured Space
October, 2014.
Project Loupe in collaboration with Nokia researchers has some press! - MIT Tech Review, Fast Company, and SIAT Spotlight.
Patents
3 patents filed with Nokia:
_ Nguyen, D., Desjardins, A. (2013).
Display of a visual event notification, September 16th, 2014.
_ Nguyen, D., Vidal, M., Desjardins, A. (2013).
Body limits as controls for information, December 3rd, 2013.
_ Lyons, K., Nguyen, D., Seko, S., Kim, S. W., Vidal, M., Desjardins, A., Dobbelstein, D. (2013).
Pendant display device, September 17th, 2013.