Publications

In addition to traditional papers for academic conferences, we disseminate our research in a number of forms, including exhibitions, books, and documentary film.


Andy Boucher. 2023. Research Products at Scale: Learnings from Designing Devices in Multiples of Ones, Tens, Hundreds and Thousands. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 177, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581540

William Gaver and Frances Gaver. 2023. Living with Light Touch: An Autoethnography of a Simple Communication Device in Long-Term Use. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 633, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580807

William Gaver, Andy Boucher, Dean Brown, David Chatting, Naho Matsuda, Liliana Ovalle, Andy Sheen, and Michail Vanis. 2022. Yo–Yo Machines: Self-Build Devices that Support Social Connections During the Pandemic. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 458, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517547

William Gaver, Peter Gall Krogh, Andy Boucher, and David Chatting. 2022. Emergence as a Feature of Practice-based Design Research. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 517–526. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533524

William Gaver, Andy Boucher, Michail Vanis, Andy Sheen, Dean Brown, Liliana Ovalle, Naho Matsuda, Amina Abbas-Nazari, and Robert Phillips. 2019. My Naturewatch Camera: Disseminating Practice Research with a Cheap and Easy DIY Design. In Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 302, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300532

My Naturewatch Project Team. 2021. My Naturewatch Camera – Project Book. Independently published. ISBN 9798740714431

Andy Boucher, Dean Brown, Liliana Ovalle, Andy Sheen, Mike Vanis, William Odom, Doenja Oogjes, and William Gaver. 2018. TaskCam: Designing and Testing an Open Tool for Cultural Probes Studies. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 71, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173645

William Gaver, Andy Boucher, Nadine Jarvis, David Cameron, Mark Hauenstein, Sarah Pennington, John Bowers, James Pike, Robin Beitra, and Liliana Ovalle. 2016. The Datacatcher: Batch Deployment and Documentation of 130 Location-Aware, Mobile Devices That Put Sociopolitically-Relevant Big Data in People’s Hands: Polyphonic Interpretation at Scale. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1597–1607. https://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858472

Andy Boucher, David Cameron, William Gaver, and Sarah Pennington, eds. 2015. Datacatcher – project book. Goldsmiths Press, University of London. ISBN 978-1-906897-35-2

William Gaver, Mike Michael, Tobie Kerridge, Alex Wilkie, Andy Boucher, Liliana Ovalle, and Matthew Plummer-Fernandez. 2015. Energy Babble: Mixing Environmentally-Oriented Internet Content to Engage Community Groups. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’15). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1115–1124. https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702546

Andy Boucher, William Gaver, Tobie Kerridge, Mike Michael, Liliana Ovalle, Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and Alex Wilkie. 2018. Energy Babble – project book. Mattering Press. ISBN 978-0-9955277-2-0

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