Design

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Kimiko Ryokai

Associate Professor

Human-computer interaction, tangible user interfaces

Recent Publications

Decision Making Under Radical Uncertainty: A Multiple Case Comparison of Companies Creating New Technologies Featuring New Forms of Personal Data

May 12, 2017

Strange and Unstable Fabrication

Dec 15, 2016

Designing Commercial Therapeutic Robots for Privacy Preserving Systems and Ethical Research Practices Within the Home

Jun 22, 2016

When a Product Is Still Fictional: Anticipating and Speculating Futures through Concept Videos

Jun 6, 2016

We analyze the concept videos of Google Glass and Microsoft Hololens, viewing them as design fictions that project a vision about the future of computing. Analyzing these videos along with media articles during the time period after the products were announced but before they were available to the public, we begin to see how people use the videos to imagine different types of futures - including imagining different implications that these technologies might have on privacy.

Hand waving and the real work of design

Jul 15, 2011

Feminist HCI meets Facebook: Performativity and social networking sites

May 1, 2011

Search User Interfaces

Sep 30, 2009

New book by I School professor Marti Hearst focuses on search engines' user interfaces and how people use them.

Tangible message bubbles for children's communication and play

Apr 9, 2009

Multimodal programming environment for kids: a 'thought bubble' interface for the Pleo robotic character

Apr 9, 2009

UIs for Faceted Navigation: Recent Advances and Remaining Open Problems

Oct 23, 2008

Design news

I School Research on Human-Computer Interaction at CHI Conference 2014

Apr 28, 2014

School of Information faculty and students are presenting their research on human-computer interaction in Toronto this week at the annual CHI conference.

I School Faculty & Students Head to Paris for CHI 2013

Apr 25, 2013

Eight I School faculty and students will be presenting their research at the upcoming CHI Conference in Paris, France.

The "AnyType" app creates a custom typeface based on photgraphs of the user's environment.

New Mobile App Turns Your Environment Into A Personalized Typeface

Oct 18, 2012

The mobile app “AnyType” lets people experiment with the creative process — and encourages them to see the world around them through a new lens.

The Challenges of Designing Mobile User Experiences

Jul 9, 2012

Suzanne Ginsburg will be teaching the new course “Designing Mobile Experiences” at the School of Information in Fall 2012. Ginsburg talks about her upcoming course and the biggest challenges when designing for mobile devices.

Daniela Rosner Presents at Design & STS Workshop

Dec 2, 2011

Marti Hearst Predicts the Future of Search User Interfaces

Nov 3, 2011

The future of search will include speech input, social searching, and natural language queries, according to I School professor Marti Hearst.

Elizabeth Goodman Discusses Community-Based Design of Urban Green Spaces

Sep 16, 2011

Goodman is delivering a keynote address in this week’s IDSA International Conference in New Orleans. The 2011 conference, sponsored by the Industrial Designers Society of America, focuses on community-based design.

I Schoolers Present at Pervasive Computing Conference

Jun 13, 2011

Ph.D. student Daniela Rosner is one of the organizers of this week’s Pervasive Computing conference, which also features a demonstration of a 2010 I School master’s final project.