[Mission Statement]
Material Interactions Design Lab studies and shapes how interfaces mediate relations between people, technologies, data, and environments.
[Reel]
[Selected Projects]
Arca: A Trustworthy and Privacy-Enhancing Smart Home Camera
Privacy, sensing, adjacent users
Between Lines Between Lines: Critically Speculating Futures
Surveillance, Design Fiction
Adjacent User Privacy for Spatial Sensing Technologies
Privacy, sensing, adjacent users
Legible Sensing
Research through Design, Surveillance, speculative design
Wall
Research through Design, Surveillance, speculative design
Eccentric Device Prototypes
Research through Design, Surveillance, speculative design
Participatory Scenarios of Power Dynamics with AI Sensor Surveillance
Research through Design, Surveillance, speculative design
Frictional Design
Design Theory, Speculative Design
UW HCDE PhD admissions are now open.
We're Hiring Undergraduate Research Assistants for Winter 2027
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[NEWS]
07.2025
12.2024
[Recent publications]
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GROUP ‘27 FULL PAPER
Tracked Into Closeness: Surveillance Intimacy and Location-Sharing in Close Relationships
Claire Weizenegger, Audrey Desjardins, Sean Munson, James Pierce
2027
57
Dis '26 FULL PAPER
Beyond Cameras and Microphones: Mitigating Privacy
Alexa Becker, Mirko Schäfer, Albrecht Kurze, Andreas Bischof, Franziska Baum, James Pierce, Arne Berger
2026
55
CHI '25 Full paper
Exploring the use of Speculative Concept Films for Co-Speculation around Data Ethics
Wyatt Olson, James Pierce
2025
47
CHI '24 Full Paper
Using Annotated Portfolios to Interrogate Speculative Designs: The Case of Emergent Personal Data Trails.
Snow, Stephen, Awais Hameed Khan, Ben Matthews, Inmaculada Rodríguez, Audrey Desjardines, Ayanna Seals, Omar Sosa-Tzec et al.
2024