Things of Design
An ongoing workshop series on research through design
Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, And Then What? (CHI 2025)
- Pace Layers and Research Products. David Chatting, Caroline Claisse, Ben Morris, Sara Wolf, and Abigail C Durrant
- Wearing AI-Powered Gadgets: Exploring Privacy, Ethics, and Design Challenges of First-Person AI Devices. Rintaro Chujo, Ayumi Takagi, Shun Naoi, Reika Nakamura, Yuchi Yahagi, Katsufumi Matsui, and Young ah Seong
- Balancing the Timing and Pacing of Design Creation. Jeanette Falk
- The Bug Hotel ten years on: a More-than-Human Research through Design study. Sara Heitlinger
- Researchers’ Personal Growth in Research through Design. Jeffrey C. F. Ho
- Research through Implementing Design. Karin Johansson and Jon Back
- Experiential Outcomes of Long-Term Use: Five and a half years with a Research Product. William Odom
- Reflecting on the Multi-Functional Artifacts of Arca: A Privacy-Enhancing Smart Device for You and Your Extended Household James Pierce and Project Team
- Fields of Interpretation: Design in Flux. Namrata Primlani
- The Image with Temporality by Luminous Bacteria and Digital Screen Printing. Takumi Saeki
- Technological Foundations for Long-Term HCI Research: A Case for Simplicity. Klaus Stephan
- Designing Memorial Rituals and Practices: Overcoming Sensitive Contexts and the Constraints of Trial and Error. Daisuke Uriu
- Temporal Perspectives on Exploring PaperWave: a Document-to-Audio Adaptation System powered by LLMs. Yuchi Yahagi, Rintaro Chujo, Yuga Harada, Changyo Han, Kohei Sugiyama, and Takeshi Naemura
- Design Artifacts, Participants and Continued Dialogue: What Happens During and After the Deployment? MinYoung Yoo, Samann Pinder, Samuel Barnett, and William Odom
RtD in Situ: Discussing the Domains and Impact of Design Research (DIS 2020)
- The Stuffness of Research Through Design. David Chatting
- Situated Temporality through Design: Engaging Personal Photo Viewing Experience at Home. Amy Yo Sue Chen and William Odom
- The way of understanding the relational in a complex manner also determines Co-Ability. Renata Deszo
- PizzaBlock: Can a Workshop be a Research Product? Chris Elsden and Jonathan Rankin
- Traces, Glimmers, Residues, and Specks of Things: In Praise of Ephemera. Cally Gatehouse
- Creating and Staging Interactive Costumes–Wearables and E-textiles in the Performing Arts. Michaela Honauer
- Inclusion and the ‘new normals’ of design practice. Maxim Labarande
- This is a design imaginary. Ruth Neubauer
- ‘Station of Being’ – Design Research into Practice. Jeroen Peeters, Rosa van der Veen, and Ambra Trotto
- From Studios to Laptops: Challenges in Imparting Design Education Virtually. Surbhi Pratap, Abhishek Dahiya, and Jyoti Kumar
- Exploring Location Histories as a Design Material for Reflection with Memory Compass & Memory Tracer. Jordan White and William Odom
- Research Through Design with Differently Abled People: Participation, Ownership and Equitable Conclusions. MinYoung Yoo, William Odom, and Arne Berger
- So I drew this thing: Conversations through Artefact Drawing. Paulina Yurman
- RtD for Self-Inquiry: Sleep Ecologies. Tammar Zea-Wolfson, Dan Lockton, Jackie Chou, Yuhan (Antonio) Song, Erin Ryan, CJ Walsh
Doing Things with Research through Design: With What, with Whom, and Towards What Ends?
(CHI 2019)
- Thought Projectors: Autoethnographic Research-through-Design Artifacts. Aubree M. Ball
- A Tangible Color-Picker Toy Designed for Young Children
Balancing Physical Properties and Play Elements Through Design. Florian Güldenpfennig, Peter Fikar, and Roman Ganhör
- Heart Sounds as a Means of Giving Form to Critical Alternatives with Biosensory Data. Noura Howell
- Careful Devices: outline of a research program Tom Jenkins, Anna Vallgårda, Laurens Boer, Teresa Almeida, and Sarah Homewood
- Using Research through Design to Study Future Everyday Life. Lenneke Kuijer
- Reifying Through Design(ing). Dan Lockton
- Designing Creative Tensions between Concept and Embodied Practice. Andrew McPherson, Fabio Morreale, and Andrea Guidi
- When making things with code makes nothing. Troy Nachtigall
- Material improvisations with a new sensor material. Charlotte Nordmoen, Andrew McPherson
- Murmur: Exploring how Awareness of Being Under Surveillance can Lead to Dialogue and Control. Jonathan Rankin
- The Desktop Odometer: Situating Speculative Design in the Amazon Marketplace. Jeremy Viny
- Robot Re-embodiment: Case of How We Funded and Executed RtD for Basic-Exploratory Research. John Zimmerman, Jodi Forlizzi, and Aaron Steinfeld
The Things of Design Research: Diversity in Objects and Outcomes (CHI 2017)
- Multisensory Prototyping for Smart Connected Things. Arne Berger, Kevin Lefeuvre, and Sören Totzauer
- A Data-enabled Design Canvas as Research through Design facilitator. Janne van Kollenburg and Sander Bogers
- Ritual Machine IV: A Message in a Jam. David Chatting, Paulina Yurman, Jo-Anne Bichard, and David S. Kirk
- DIYbio Incubator: A ‘design thing’ at the boundaries of DIY Making and DIY Biology. Piyum Fernando
- HaptiSonic Artefacts: Malleable Prototypes & Audio Diaries for Designing with Visually-Impaired Practitioners. Oussama Metatla, Nick Bryan-Kinns, and Tony Stockman
- Things and 物 in In-situ Making and Evaluating: A Case Study. Wei Wang, Nick Bryan-Kinns, Jennifer G. Sheridan, Yi Shen, Tie Ji, Lucia Marengo, Alessia Milo, Tongtong Ning, Yongmeng Wu, Xiang Xu, and Yating Zou
- Design Research Artifacts: Ways of Seeing, Ways of Saying. Zachary Winegardner
Attending to Objects as Outcomes of Design Research (CHI 2016)