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Kimiko Ryokai

Associate Professor

Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces

Recent Publications

In Search of a “Fair Explanation”: Helping Young People to Consider the Possibilities, Limitations, and Risks of Computer- and Data-Mediated Systems

Dec 1, 2019

Vivewell: Speculating Near-Future Menstrual Tracking through Current Data Practices

Jun 23, 2019

Bringing Design to the Privacy Table: Broadening “Design” in “Privacy by Design” Through the Lens of HCI

May 8, 2019

This paper reviews HCI research on privacy and design to discuss how utilizing a broader range of design methods from HCI can help support “privacy by design” efforts.

Mind-Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates: What People Think Machines Can Know About the Mind, and Why Their Beliefs Matter

Dec 15, 2018

What can machines know about the mind? This dissertation seeks to understand people’s beliefs about this question: how these beliefs affect and arise from interactions with digital sensors, from prior beliefs about the mind and the body; and how these beliefs may shape the design of technical systems in the future.

The purpose of this dissertation is twofold. First, it surfaces that the boundary between sensing bodies and sensing minds is unstable, deeply entangled with social context and beliefs about the body and mind. Second, it proposes the porousness of this boundary as a site for studying the role that biosensing devices will play in near future. As biosensors creep into smart watches, bands, and ingestibles, their ability to divine not just what these bodies do, but what they think and feel, presents an under-explored avenue for understanding and imagining how thesetechnologies will come to matter in the course of life.

Differential Vulnerabilities and a Diversity of Tactics: What Toolkits Teach Us about Cybersecurity

Nov 8, 2018

We investigate cybersecurity toolkits, collections of public facing materials intended to help users achieve security online. We look at design dimensions of these toolkits, and investigate how the toolkits construct security as a value and how they construct people as (in)secure users.

Speculative Design in HCI: From Corporate Imaginations to Critical Orientations

Jun 28, 2018

When BCIs have APIs: Design Fictions of Everyday Brain-Computer Interface Adoption

Jun 13, 2018

An Interface without A User: An Exploratory Design Study of Online Privacy Policies and Digital Legalese

Jun 12, 2018

Eliciting Values Reflections by Engaging Privacy Futures Using Design Workbooks

Nov 30, 2017

Real-Fictional Entanglements: Using Science Fiction and Design Fiction to Interrogate Sensing Technologies

Jun 10, 2017

Design news

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Professor Kimiko Ryokai and Team Awarded $1.29M to Center Indigenous Youth in Museum Spaces

Apr 19, 2023

A group of researchers, including the I School’s own Professor Kimiko Ryokai, recently received a grant of $1.29M from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to tackle this challenge.

I School Class Marries Climate Change Mitigation and Information Sciences

Apr 14, 2023

Led by Professor John Chuang, Info 290: Climate, People, and Informatics seeks to explore the burgeoning field of climate informatics and equip students with the necessary language and contextual knowledge to contribute.

Visualize this! Ph.D. Student Chase Stokes Discusses His Love for Data Vis

Feb 22, 2023

Would you prefer a chart or text when being presented with information? Ph.D. student Chase Stokes has dedicated his studies to answering this question.

Fellowship Recipient Focused on Design and Values in Cybersecurity

Feb 9, 2022

MIMS student Joanne Ma has been awarded the 2021–22 Curtis B. Smith Cybersecurity Fellowship.

Steve Fadden Speaks Design at UXINDIA 2019

Sep 12, 2019

New App Impresses Deepfake Experts Hao Li and Hany Farid

Sep 18, 2019

Hao Li, a deepfake pioneer and an associate professor at the University of Southern California, is impressed by the Chinese app Zao, which allows you to place yourself in popular television shows and movies with just a single photograph.

I School Team Reimagines “Privacy by Design,” and Wins Best Paper Award

Dec 6, 2018

Instead of looking for design solutions to fix existing problems in privacy, I School researchers used speculative design fictions to explore the potential privacy issues that may arise in future uses and adoptions of emerging biosensing technologies.

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Fact or Science Fiction? Using your Thoughts to Enter a Password

Dec 4, 2018

I School researchers have developed a custom-fit earpiece that that can capture “passthoughts” through brainwave signals from the ear canal, and for the first time demonstrated one-step three-factor authentication.

Color-Changing “Smart Thread” Turns Fabric into a Computerized Display

Jun 6, 2016

The smart fabric could be used to create clothes with dynamically changing colors or patterns. But who would wear clothes that double as a computer display? And why? New research explores these questions.

Being the Machine: A Student's Journey to Becoming a Human 3D Printer

Jan 20, 2015

Machines increasingly do humans’ jobs. But what happens when a human performs a machine’s tasks? A new project by doctoral student Laura Devendorf explores that role reversal, with unexpected insights into the creative process how people interact with machines.