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Vasillis Vlachokyriakos
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Human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing · 34 · 5 first-author · 20 since 2021Security and privacy · 2
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
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| 2026 | The Emotional Dimensions of Young Adults' Encounters with Online InformationabstractThe platformisation of news is increasingly shaping young adults’ emotional wellbeing, presenting urgent challenges for HCI. Existing approaches prioritise control, visibility, and agency, neglecting the emotional and relational dimensions of everyday news encounters. Such frameworks tend to overlook how information encounters contribute to emotional strain, affective overload, and the need for self-care. In this study, we adopted a qualitative, context-sensitive methodology to explore how young adults engage with news in their daily lives, foregrounding the emotional experiences that accompany these interactions. Our findings reveal that information encounters are deeply entangled with emotional needs such as self-expression, self-preservation, care for others, and a relational dependence on personalisation algorithms. Our insights call for a reorientation toward emotionally aware, harm-reducing design that supports emotional resilience, fosters empathetic engagement, and promotes self-care in information encounters. This work contributes to ongoing conversations in HCI around affective computing and the ethics of personalisation in socio-technical systems. Ian G. Johnson, Caroline Claisse, Viana Nijia Zhang, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
CHI | 5 |
| 2026 | AI as an Agent and Collaborative Space: Exploring the role of Generative AI in Small Group Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaborative DynamicsabstractWhile Generative AI (GenAI) systems are designed primarily for individual use, it is increasingly integrated into collaborative work. Its impact, however, on collaboration dynamics, such as information flow, role negotiation, and decision-making, remains unclear. To investigate this, we conducted a qualitative study comprising observations and semi-structured interviews with a total of 27 higher education students through the lens of distributed cognition. Our findings show that in synchronous settings, shared use of GenAI supported transparency and mutual awareness, with the interaction space functioning as attentional anchors, shared memory, and negotiable contributions to group decisions. Instead, in asynchronous teamwork, GenAI was typically used individually, with outputs later introduced into discussions, reducing opportunities for negotiation. As such, we contribute empirical evidence on GenAI’s influence on collaborative dynamics and design considerations that position GenAI-Supported Cooperative Work (GSCW) as a bridge between Human–AI Interaction and CSCW. Ahmed Kharrufa, Ellis Solaiman, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
CHI | 4 |
| 2026 | Playing with Privacy: Uncovering Everyday Judgments of Data Sensitivity Through an Arcade Machine InterfaceabstractCurrent data protection legal frameworks, including the GDPR, classify “special” categories of personal data that are deemed deserving of higher protection due to their impact on fundamental rights. Yet, these legal abstractions fail to capture how individuals themselves judge sensitivity in everyday digital contexts. This disconnect may undermine intelligibility and erode trust in data protection as a legal institution. Despite its centrality to privacy protection, limited empirical work has systematically compared public sensitivity judgments against the special categories of protected data under Article 9 GDPR. We address this gap through a mixed-methods design that integrates nine semi-structured interviews with a game-like survey deployed on public arcade machines. This approach generated 2,935 responses from 224 participants enabling in-situ analysis of everyday judgments. By operationalising an ontology capturing who collects data, what data are collected, and for what purpose, we systematically compared responses across demographic groups. Contrary to literature assumptions that health and financial data are primary markers of data sensitivity, our findings demonstrate that expressive content, messages, photos, and social ties elicited the strongest resistance to sharing by citizens. Acceptance was shaped decisively by purpose. Citizens tolerated safety and functionality, whilst advertising and vague claims of “research” were rejected. Attitudes varied systematically, with women disproportionately resistant to sharing expressive content, and higher education and digital literacy predicting greater caution. This study demonstrates that data sensitivity cannot be reduced to fixed legal categories. Rather, it is socially situated and purpose-dependent. Our findings provide empirical foundations for reimagining consent flows, privacy defaults, and transparency mechanisms that align with everyday logics. This can enable the development of systems that people can genuinely understand, trust, and consent to. Maksim Kalameyets, Rebecca Owens, Chi Fai David Lam, Shola Olabode, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Ben Farrand, Stergios Aidinlis, Lei Shi 0003 |
IUI | 5 |
| 2026 | Post-mortem information management: exploring contextual factors in appropriate personal data access after deathabstractWith the increasing size and complexity of personal information and data landscapes, there is a need for guidance and support in the appropriate management of a deceased person’s postmortem privacy and digital legacy. However, most people engage poorly with existing mechanisms for specifying and planning for access and suitable usage of their own data. We report on two studies exploring the ways in which contextual factors such as the accessor and the data type may affect the appropriateness of personal data flows differently during life and after death. Our findings indicate that suitable data access after death is highly individual and contextual, with differences in appropriateness between during-life and after-death data flows significantly affected by the accessor and the data type in question. We identify that ambiguous accessor motivation, failure to communicate intent, changing temporal context and latent data values further complicate the act of digital legacy planning. Our findings also provide further evidence for the existence of a postmortem privacy paradox in which reported user behaviors do not reflect intent. With this in mind, we offer design recommendations for the integration of digital legacy planning functionality within Personal Information Management (PIM) and Group Information Management (GIM) systems. Jack Holt, Jan D. Smeddinck, James Nicholson, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Abigail Durrant |
Hum. Comput. Interact. | 4 |
| 2025 | Beyond the Screen: Exploring the Emotional and Social Impact of Otome Games on Global Players
Viana Nijia Zhang, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
ECSCW | 2 |
| 2025 | More than Foodsaving Machines: Insights from Communities Fighting Food Waste in the Digital AgeabstractAbstract Grassroots initiatives promoting sharing-for-community are viewed as contributing to the transition towards a more socially equitable and environmentally sustainable world. However, along with other challenges, they often encounter technological barriers. In this article we report on our engagement with a number of self-organised foodsaving and sharing communities active in Europe which use the open-source platform Karrot to coordinate their activities. Our aim has been to explore the use of Karrot, across various contexts. We have also been interested in understanding Karrot’s impact on community-led foodsaving and sharing daily practices, as well as on community governance and organising; aspects which distinguish grassroots initiatives from more top-down anti-food waste models. We found that while Karrot facilitates certain processes, it does not fully meet the needs of the researched communities, which in turn have been configuring Karrot and have been developing unique digital ecologies, combining Karrot with off-the-shelf commercial tools. By recognising foodsaving and sharing communities as elements of a larger transformational ecosystem, we broaden our discussion to include the role of technology beyond just community-led foodsaving and sharing initiatives. Reflecting on the process of developing digital ecologies, we explore interoperability as a design element that can enhance sharing-for-community practices. Next, we propose strategies to strengthen community governance and organisation. Finally, we seed Community-Supported Software as an evolving framework that can facilitate the collaboration between grassroots place-based and software communities. Vasilis Ntouros, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Philip Engelbutzeder |
Interact. Comput. | 2 |
| 2024 | Evaluating ActuAir: Building Occupants' Experiences of a Shape-Changing Air Quality DisplayabstractWith workplace buildings becoming increasingly sensor-rich environments and amidst climate change and global pandemic pressures, there is novel opportunity for utilizing climatic data within buildings for awareness and wellbeing purposes. Interaction design research, including on large, shared-displays, rarely addresses building occupants’ experiences of air quality (AQ); and to-date there are no studies evaluating such interventions in the context of communicating climatic data in the workplace. Responding to these research gaps, three prototype-led studies were conducted with 21 occupants of a smart office building over June-August 2022, evaluating occupants’ experiences of a large shape- and color-changing display responding to AQ data. A thematic analysis resulted in design implications for improving shape- and color-changing displays for communicating AQ data; linking biomimicry to data interpretation. Contributing to Human-Building Interaction (HBI) research in the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) field, we provide design directions for future shape-changing and responsive architectures for climate awareness in smart buildings. Eleni Kallopi Margariti, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Abigail Durrant, David S. Kirk |
CHI | 2 |
| 2024 | Design Implications for a Social and Collaborative Understanding of online Information Assessment Practices, Challenges and HeuristicsabstractThe broader adoption of social media platforms (e.g., TikTok), combined with recent developments in Generative AI (GAI) technologies has had a transformative effect on many peoples’ ability to confidently assess the veracity and meaning of information online. In this paper, building on recent related work that surfaced the social ways that young people evaluate information online, we explore the decision-making practices, challenges and heuristics involved in young adults’ assessments of information online. To do so, we designed and conducted a novel digital diary study, followed by data-informed interviews with young adults. Our findings uncover the information practices of young adults including the social and emotional motivations for ignoring, avoiding, and engaging with online information and the ways this is entangled with collaborative arrangements with algorithms as agents. In our discussion we bring these findings in close dialogue with work on information sensibility and contribute rich insights into young peoples’ information sensibility practices embedded within social worlds. Finally, we surface how such practices are attuned to prioritise wellbeing over convenience or other commonly associated sufficing heuristics. Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Ian G. Johnson, Caroline Claisse, Viana Nijia Zhang, Pamela Briggs |
ECSCW | 1 |
| 2024 | Socio-digital Rural Resilience: An Exploration of Information Infrastructures Within and Across Rural Villages During Covid-19abstractAccess to the internet and digital technology are reported determinants and enablers of social capital and community resilience. However, despite rural areas facing ecological, social, and economic uncertainties across the world, communication technologies and the design of civic technologies in HCI are not designed with the rural in mind. In this paper, we explore information infrastructures within and across rural villages in the UK focusing on the interplay between human, social, and technical infrastructures. We report on the existing communication practices, underlining the impacts of transitioning to digital communication technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings point to the fragility of information infrastructure, the "civic duty" of bridging information and skills gaps, and the role of technology as a threat to social norms and disrupter of the 'politics of the rural'. The work presented here has implications for Rural HCI researchers and designers interested in design from the rural. Ian G. Johnson, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 2 |
| 2023 | From Inclusive Theatre to inclusive technologies: Lessons learnt from co-designing Touch Tours with an Inclusive Theatre groupabstractThe HCI community has attempted to understand the role theatre can play in systems design, but the ways inclusive design methodologies could benefit from inclusive theatre are underexamined. To better understand inclusive theatre practices for technology design, we worked with the first professional inclusive theatre ensemble in Greece, which faced difficulties due to social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this paper, we attempt to better understand inclusion within such theatre practices through the co-designing of a prototype digital system for Touch Tours, an experience through touch service. We conducted a series of research through design activities with the group, building on eighteen months of ethnographic research. Our goal was to develop a service based on their practices. We contribute design implications for inclusive services, with respect to equity in experience, which enhance the activistic character of the movement, and HCI research concerned with developing technologies that support inclusion. Alexandra Tzanidou, Al Husein Sami Abosaleh, Stephen Lindsay, Abigail Durrant, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
Conference on Designing Interactive Systems | 5 |
| 2023 | Understanding occupants' experiences in quantified buildings: results from a series of exploratory studiesabstractQuantified smart buildings increasingly utilise data-rich technologies (such as embedded sensors and personal wearables). Research and development however, rarely addresses occupants’ experiences and expectations in such environments, which is critical for designing ethical and occupant-centred workspaces. To support the design of human-centred smart buildings, a series of 4 workshops was conducted with a total of 27 participants, over 2 months, with occupants of a smart office building. Workshops used discursive (focus group) and projective (design fiction) techniques to qualitatively explore occupants’ perceptions of and concerns around the collection, processing and use of data within the building. Workshop data was thematically analysed, resulting in design implications for improving occupant experience in current smart workplaces, while also contributing implications for increasing the perceivability, accessibility and usability of data in such buildings. Contributing to discourses around Human-Building Interaction the paper concludes with discussion of future research challenges for occupant-centred development of quantified buildings. Eleni Kallopi Margariti, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, David S. Kirk |
CHI | 2 |
| 2023 | Designing for the Embedding of Employee VoiceabstractPrevious research on employee voice has sought to design technological solutions that address the challenges of speaking up in the workplace. However, effectively embedding employee voice systems in organisations requires designers to engage with the social processes, power relations and contextual factors of individual workplaces. We explore this process within a university workplace through a research project responding to a crisis in educational service delivery arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. Within a successful three-month staff-led engagement, we examined the intricacies of embedding employee voice, exploring how the interactions between existing actors impacted the effectiveness of the process. We sought to identify specific actions to promote employee voice and overcome barriers to its successful establishment in organisational decision-making. We highlight design considerations for an effective employee voice system that facilitates embedding employee voice, including assurance, bounded accountability and bias reflexivity. Dinislam Abdulgalimov, Reuben Kirkham, Stephen Lindsay, James Nicholson, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Emily Dao, Daniel Kos, Daniel Jitnah, Pamela Briggs, Patrick Olivier |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 5 |
| 2023 | Exploring Digital Communication Needs of Local Communities and Self-organized CollectivesabstractRecent work in HCI has explored the use of ICTs for the mobilisation and organisation of values-led communities and social movements. This paper extends this line of work by exploring the design of a communication system for informal, place-based citizen collectives-also referred to as Social Solidarity Movements. The distinctive characteristics of such collectives, namely their decentralised, bottom-up and self-organised organisation, and their lack of monetary resources, pose interesting challenges for communication technology design. The work reported in this paper sought to explore how the values and practices of such collectives can be embodied in mobile communication tools. A system was designed to mirror on-the-ground informal organisational structures, its primary goal being to serve as a probe for research and discussion. Our findings highlight the diversity of channels and organisational structures prevailing in these contexts, their participatory nature, and issues of temporality, anonymity, privacy, and trust, all of which must be considered when designing technologies to support cooperative work. We contribute methodological insights and design implications for mobile technologies underpinning the work of social collectives and their practices. Katerina El Raheb, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Maria Roussou, Patrick Olivier, Tom Bartindale, Andrew Garbett |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 2 |
| 2022 | Co-designing the automation of Theatre Touch ToursabstractThis paper presents the five-step co-design process of a prototype system for the automation of Touch Tours (TTs) service in theatre performances. Alexandra Tzanidou, Sami Abosaleh, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
ASSETS | 3 |
| 2022 | Exploring the Role of Paradata in Digitally Supported Qualitative Co-ResearchabstractAcademics and community organisations are increasingly adopting co-research practices where participants contribute to qualitative data collection, analysis, and dissemination. These qualitative practices can often lack transparency that can present a problem for stakeholders (such as funding agencies) who seek evidence of the rigour and accountability in these decision-making processes. When qualitative research is done digitally, paradata is available as interaction logs that reveal the underlying processes, such as the time spent engaging with different segments of an interview. In practice, paradata is seldom used to examine the decisions associated with undertaking qualitative research. This paper explores the role of paradata arising from a four-month engagement with a community-led charity that used a digital platform to support their qualitative co-research project. Through observations of platform use and reflective post-deployment interviews, our findings highlight examples of paradata generated through digital tools in qualitative research, e.g., listening coverage, engagement rate, thematic maps and data discards. From this, we contribute a conceptualisation of paradata and discuss its role in qualitative research to improve process transparency, enhance data sharing, and to create feedback loops with research participants. Jay Rainey, Siobhan Macfarlane, Aare Puussaar, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Roger J. Burrows, Jan D. Smeddinck, Pamela Briggs, Kyle Montague |
CHI | 4 |
| 2022 | Revolting from Abroad: The Formation of a Lebanese Transnational PublicabstractNowadays social movements are driven by networks of people who resort to social media platforms to rally, self-organise and coordinate action around a shared cause, which can be referred to as the formation of publics. Due to years of political instability, conflicts, corruption, sectarianism, economic collapse and declining living conditions, in October 2019 Lebanon witnessed uprisings which transcended into a wider social movement. As the movement unfolded, Lebanese diaspora members living across the world formed their own publics in support of the Lebanese revolution that interfaced with the local Lebanon-based publics. As such, a broader transnational public emerged as a result of the coordinated online and offline efforts between diaspora actors and local actors, which had a crucial role in mitigating the aftermath of the compounded crises that hit Lebanon. In this paper, through observation and interviews with Lebanese diaspora members, we contribute a socio-technical understanding of the formation of a transnational public, with a particular focus on the underlying infrastructures that enabled its creation. Furthermore, we surface the challenges in relation to sustaining such a diaspora public and its interfacing with local publics in Lebanon. We contribute empirical insights that highlight how different technological tools and platforms, coupled with social processes built within diaspora groups and with local actors, led to the formation of such a multilayered transnational public. Sarah Armouch, Reem Talhouk, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 3 |
| 2021 | Sustaining a Networked Community Resource: Findings from a Longitudinal Situated Display DeploymentabstractConfiguring community technology to ensure its sustainability has proved challenging. We present a 3-year longitudinal study and evaluation of two independent situated community display networks in rural contexts. We describe how the design of the display systems evolved to reflect the needs and desires of the community. We report on the way stakeholders’ perceptions of the displays changed over time, and examine the community dynamics involved in the administration, maintenance and moderation of the systems. Drawing from our findings, we further explore the role of the community champion and their impact on sustainability and scalability. We provide recommendations for the design of community network display technology that supports democratic inter-community politics and governance, and is sensitive to the hidden emotional labor and social resources that are required from communities to fully adopt and sustain display technology. Stuart Nicholson, Clara Crivellaro, Adrian K. Clear, Daniel Jackson 0002, Rob Comber, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Patrick Olivier |
CHI | 6 |
| 2021 | Research with a Solidarity Clinic: Design Implications for CSCW Healthcare Service DesignabstractAbstract This paper reports on a long-term collaboration with a self-organised social clinic, within solidarity movements in Greece. The collaboration focused on the co-creation of an oral history group within the social clinic, aiming to record and make sense of a collection of digital oral histories from its volunteers and volunteers-doctors. The process aimed to support reflection and shape the future of the clinic’s ongoing social innovation and to transform institutional public health services. Positioning the work of solidarity movement as designing social innovation, the work contributes to CSCW and ‘infrastructuring’ in Participatory Design aspiring to support social activism and social transformation processes. More specifically, through our empirical insights on the process of infrastructuring an oral history group within a social movement; and related insights about their ongoing participatory health service provision—we provide implications for CSCW concerned with its role in institutional healthcare service transformation. Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Clara Crivellaro, Hara Kouki, Christos Giovanopoulos, Patrick Olivier |
Comput. Support. Cooperative Work. | 1 |
| 2021 | Designing Sharing Economy Platforms through a 'Solidarity HCI' lensabstractDespite sharing economy's promise of a novel, inclusive and community building socio-techno-economic system, sharing economy has been indicted, among others for profiteering from previously private and occasionally non-monetized activities, for turning the activity of sharing into an individualistic and impersonal one, for reproducing stereotypes and creating precarious jobs. In the epicenter of such critiques are the 'big' and 'limelight-ed' platform-firms, such as AirBnB and Uber and the digital infrastructures they employ. To the best of our knowledge, the majority of related research focuses on sharing economy platforms of this ilk. In response, acknowledging that the problem is not the agency of the digital in the activity of sharing per se, but that the wrong people set the terms, design and benefit from this mediation, we find it timely to explore the existence of community-driven sharing economy initiatives and explore how they use the digital to support their ends. As a result, in this paper we report from our engagement with a ride-sharing initiative, called 'Share the ride ;)' that has operated within a Facebook group since 2009 and is the most popular ride-sharing 'platform' in Greece. Extrapolating from our findings and while adopting a 'Solidarity HCI' approach, a call to design for 'human' rather than market needs, we participate in the 'sharing discourse' by providing design implications for the development of sharing economy platforms which can favor community building, participation, self-organization and the nurturing of a generative sharing ideology. To this end, we suggest the development of malleable sharing economy platforms and of mechanisms that can support the development of relational trust(s) and enduring social connections. Finally, we underscore that in order to favor the establishment of such relations, those platforms should employ architectures which esteem pluralism and self-affirmation. Vasilis Ntouros, Hara Kouki, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 3 |
| 2021 | Contact Zones: Designing for More-than-Human Food RelationsabstractOur food system is a socio-material, heterogeneous infrastructure whose complexity and interconnectedness often remains invisible to citizens. While moments of crisis expose the vulnerabilities and injustices underlying this system, this paper seeks to explore which processes and tools CSCW could purposely design to 'open up' food infrastructures and bring young and adult people in contact with different aspects of the food system to cultivate food citizenship from a more-than-human perspective. Through a collaboration with a local primary school and four different food organisations (a mushroom grower, a vegetable farm, a bread-baking community centre, and a food bank) in North East England, UK, we designed 'contact zones' that enabled a class of students aged 7 to 8 years to encounter socio-material food practices at each partnering organisation's site and in the classroom. Our insights show young people's rich engagement in the socio-materiality of place, food, and practices; how encountering food practices across very different sites helped surface the interconnectedness of the food system; and how the contact zones opened spaces to practice food citizenship. The paper offers design implications towards infrastructuring more-than-human food pedagogies. It discusses inherent power dynamics of more-than-human design collaborations, critically evaluates the role of technology in more-than-human relations, and presents three design opportunities towards a relational understanding of food. Sebastian Prost, Irina Pavlovskaya, Kahina Meziant, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Clara Crivellaro |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 4 |
| 2020 | Designing for Employee VoiceabstractEmployee voice and workplace democracy have a positive impact on employee wellbeing and the performance of organizations. In this paper, we conducted interviews with employees to identify facilitators and inhibitors for voice within the workplace and a corresponding set of appropriate qualities: Civility, Validity, Safety and Egalitarianism. We then operationalised these qualities as a set of design goals - Assured Anonymity, Constructive Moderation, Adequate Slowness and Controlled Access - in the design and development of a secure anonymous employee voice system. Our novel take on the Enterprise Social Network aims to foster good citizenship whilst also promoting frank yet constructive discussion. We reflect on a two-week deployment of our system, the diverse range of candid discussions that emerged around important workplace issues and the potential for change within the host organization. We conclude by reflecting on the ways in which our approach shaped discourse and supported the creation of a trusted environment for employee voice. Dinislam Abdulgalimov, Reuben Kirkham, James Nicholson, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Pamela Briggs, Patrick Olivier |
CHI | 4 |
| 2020 | Unplatformed Design: A Model for Appropriating Social Media Technologies for Coordinated ParticipationabstractUsing existing social media technologies as a resource for design offers significant potential for sustainable and scalable ways of coordinating participation. We look at three exemplar projects in three distinct domains that have successfully coordinated participation through the configuration and augmentation of existing social media technologies: participatory future forecasting, participatory health research, and connectivist learning. In this paper we conceptualise social media technologies as material for design, that is, as the raw material with which coordinated participation is realized. From this we develop a model that proposes four material qualities of social media technologies, morphology, role, representation of activity and permeability, and point to how they can be productively employed in the design of coordination of participation. Daniel Lambton-Howard, Patrick Olivier, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Hanna Celina, Ahmed Kharrufa |
CHI | 3 |
| 2019 | Infrastructuring Food Democracy: The Formation of a Local Food Hub in the Context of Socio-Economic DeprivationabstractThis paper discusses what infrastructuring in participatory design can contribute to processes of food system democratisation. It presents almost two years of engagement with a community-based organisation in a socio-economically deprived neighbourhood in England with the aim of developing a local food hub. It documents how the collaborative work shifted from setting up an infrastructure to ongoing infrastructuring of an enabling environment to grow and sustain social innovation. While the former focused on a technological platform and a business to deliver inclusivity, customer experience, and marketing, the latter focuses on building lasting relationships on three levels: strengthening ties within the community-based organisation, offering social spaces to connect with the local community, and with other organisations by forming coalitions with mutual benefits. We contribute three design opportunities: First, in order to infrastructure the formation of publics around food initiatives, we need to design for relationship building. Second, we point to design implications for ethical aspirations, participation, and system transformation towards a food democracy. Finally, we reflect on the sustainability of infrastructuring and the role of designers to work towards independent infrastructures. Sebastian Prost, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Jane Midgley, Graeme Heron, Kahina Meziant, Clara Crivellaro |
Proc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact. | 2 |
| 2019 | Infrastructuring Public Service Transformation: Creating Collaborative Spaces between Communities and Institutions through HCI ResearchabstractHCI has a tradition of engaging in democratic practices and contributing to public service innovation. Working with complex socio-political realities presents significant challenges for HCI researchers, which are amplified by the current democratic and economic crisis. In this article, we present insights from a longitudinal study where we worked with multiple stakeholders in the context of an austerity-driven transformation of public parks service in a city in the North East of England. Over the course of 20 months, we developed a participatory socio-technical process designed to create collaborative spaces between communities and institutions to re-envision and re-shape the city's public parks service. The study contributes to HCI research concerned with developing tools and processes that aim at connecting across the boundaries between communities and institutions. Our process and the resulting analysis expose the practical complexities of transformation and co-creation processes and the troubles that come with opening spaces for wider participation within highly contested and political settings. We provide an orientation for HCI design research aspiring to contribute to social innovation and democratic practices in troubled times. Clara Crivellaro, Daniel Lambton-Howard, Thomas Nappey, Patrick Olivier, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Alexander Wilson, Peter C. Wright |
ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. | 6 |
| 2018 | Infrastructuring the Solidarity Economy: Unpacking Strategies and Tactics in Designing Social InnovationabstractSolidarity organizations in Europe are committed to building a more socially just society through a better configuration of democracy, politics and economy. In this paper, we describe our efforts to contribute to the socio-political designed innovation of solidarity movements through the establishment of a research lab embedded in, and operating within, the solidarity economy. We describe three cases that span the polarities of everyday and expert design, and contribute to the scaling out of social innovations. We use these cases to exemplify the strategies and tactics that emerge from the ongoing negotiation of 'infrastructuring' work with solidarity organizations. Finally, we discuss how guerilla infrastructuring, designing coalitions, and spanning design polarities can contribute to HCI and design for social innovation more generally. Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Clara Crivellaro, Peter C. Wright, Patrick Olivier |
CHI | 1 |
| 2018 | Refugees & Technology: Determining the Role of HCI ResearchabstractCurrently, over 22 million people are considered to be refugees. Many of them are looking for shelter in the surrounding countries of their home country. Technology can be a helpful tool in addressing the challenges of the so-called "refugee crisis", facilitating initial orientation, information, as well as communication and networking support. This one-day workshop aims to (1) finalize the elaborated guidelines of the previous workshop and SIG meeting and to (2) formulate a manifesto for researchers who work with the vulnerable target group of refugees. Konstantin Aal, Anne Weibert, Reem Talhouk, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Karen E. Fisher, Volker Wulf |
GROUP | 4 |
| 2017 | HCI, Solidarity Movements and the Solidarity EconomyabstractThe financial crisis and austerity politics in Europe has had a devastating impact on public services, social security and vulnerable populations. Greek civil society responded quickly by establishing solidarity structures aimed at helping vulnerable citizens to meet their basic needs and empower them to co-create an anti-austerity movement. While digital technology and social media played an important role in the initiation of the movement, it has a negligible role in the movement's on-going practices. Through embedded work with several solidarity structures in Greece, we have begun to understand the "solidarity economy" (SE) as an experiment in direct democracy and self-organization. Working with a range of solidarity structures we are developing a vision for a "Solidarity HCI" committed to designing to support personal, social and institutional transformation through processes of agonistic pluralism and contestation, where the aims and objectives of the SE are continuously re-formulated and put into practice. Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Clara Crivellaro, Peter C. Wright, Evika Karamagioli, Eleni-Revekka Staiou, Dimitris Gouscos, Rowan Thorpe, Antonio Krüger, Johannes Schöning, Matt Jones 0001, Shaun W. Lawson, Patrick Olivier |
CHI | 1 |
| 2017 | WheelieMap: an exploratory system for qualitative reports of inaccessibility in the built environmentabstractThe built environment remains a persistent accessibility challenge for people with mobility impairments. Whilst platforms to report these inaccessible locations exist, the underlying documentation processes are verbose, time-consuming and fail to effectively communicate the barrier at hand. We propose WheelieMap, a platform which uses the motion of manual wheelchair users to support the identification and documentation of potentially problematic locations. WheelieMap captures and segments device video footage and GPS as evidence of the problematic space, which can then be shared with both other people with disabilities and the relevant authorities. We document the use of the WheelieMap prototype by both manual wheelchair users and planning experts through semi-structured interviews. The qualitative findings revealed this approach to be the most viable route for documenting inaccessibility, compared to the existing alternatives. We also offer guidance on how to design and develop similar community driven reporting and annotation systems in the accessibility setting. Reuben Kirkham, Romeo Ebassa, Kyle Montague, Kellie Morrissey, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Sebastian Weise, Patrick Olivier |
MobileHCI | 5 |
| 2017 | Surfacing Small Worlds through Data-In-Place
Siân E. Lindley, Anja Thieme, Alex S. Taylor, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Tim Regan, David Sweeney |
Comput. Support. Cooperative Work. | 4 |
| 2016 | Re-Making Places: HCI, 'Community Building' and ChangeabstractWe present insights from an extended engagement and design intervention at an urban regeneration site in SE Lon-don. We describe the process of designing a walking trail and system for recording and playing back place-specific stories for those living and working on the housing estate, and show how this is set within a wider context of urban renewal, social/affordable housing and "community building". Like prior work, the research reveals the frictions that arise in participatory engagements with heterogeneous actors. Here we illustrate how material interventions can re-arrange existing spatial configurations, making productive the plurality of accounts intrinsic in community life. Through this, we provide an orientation to HCI and design interventions that are concerned with civic engagement and participation in processes of making places. Clara Crivellaro, Alex S. Taylor, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Rob Comber, Bettina Nissen, Peter C. Wright |
CHI | 3 |
| 2015 | Data-in-Place: Thinking through the Relations Between Data and CommunityabstractWe present findings from a year-long engagement with a street and its community. The work explores how the production and use of data is bound up with place, both in terms of physical and social geography. We detail three strands of the project. First, we consider how residents have sought to curate existing data about the street in the form of an archive with physical and digital components. Second, we report endeavours to capture data about the street's environment, especially of vehicle traffic. Third, we draw on the possibilities afforded by technologies for polling opinion. We reflect on how these engagements have: materialised distinctive relations between the community and their data; surfaced flows and contours of data, and spatial, temporal and social boundaries; and enacted a multiplicity of 'small worlds'. We consider how such a conceptualisation of data-in-place is relevant to the design of technology. Alex S. Taylor, Siân E. Lindley, Tim Regan, David Sweeney, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Lillie Grainger, Jessica Lingel |
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| 2015 | Social Media As a Resource for Understanding Security Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of #Password Tweets
Paul Dunphy, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Anja Thieme, James Nicholson, John C. McCarthy 0002, Patrick Olivier |
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| 2014 | PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activismabstractOnline and digital technologies support and extend the action repertoires of localized social movements. In this paper we examine the ways by which digital technologies can support "on-the-ground" activist communities in the development of social movements. After identifying some of the challenges of deploying conventional voting and consultation technologies for activism, we examine situated political action in local communities through the design and deployment of a low-cost community voting prototype, PosterVote. We deploy PosterVote in two case studies with two local community organizations identifying the features that supported or hindered grassroots democratic practices. Through interviews with these communities, we explore the design of situated voting systems to support participation within an ecology of social action. Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Rob Comber, Karim Ladha, Nick Taylor 0002, Paul Dunphy, Patrick McCorry, Patrick Olivier |
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| 2014 | Understanding the Experience-Centeredness of Privacy and Security TechnologiesabstractThe joint study of computer security, privacy and human-computer interaction (HCI) over the last two decades has shaped a research agenda focused upon usable privacy & security. However, in HCI research more generally there has long been an awareness of the need to understand and design for user experience, in recognition of the complex and multi-faceted role that technology now plays in our lives. In this paper we add to the growing discussion by introducing the notion of experience-centered privacy and security. We argue that in order to engage users of technology around issues related to experiences of privacy and security, research methods are required that may be outside of the normal repertoire of methods that we typically call upon. We describe three projects that developed non-typical research methods to reveal experiential insights into user interactions with privacy and security-related technologies. We conclude by proposing a research agenda that begins to illustrate how the discourse and methods of experience-centered design might serve to provide valuable alternative perspectives on new and enduring user-facing privacy and security problems. Paul Dunphy, John Vines, Lizzie Coles-Kemp, Rachel Clarke 0001, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Peter C. Wright, John C. McCarthy 0002, Patrick Olivier |
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| 2012 | Cheque mates: participatory design of digital payments with eighty somethingsabstractThis paper describes a project exploring the design of digital payment services in collaboration with 16 people aged over 80. Many older people find cheques valuable as a means of payment but the UK Payments Council recently proposed their abolition. We describe two designs that simultaneously aimed to preserve and augment the paper cheque as a means of making electronic payments. These were devised during participatory design workshops through critical dialogues with our eighty something participants. Workshop discussions resulted in the creation of a real world cheque system where we issued pre-paid cheques without the involvement of banks. This work informed the development of a digital cheque book based on Anoto digital pen technology. The work illustrates the value of participatory design with 'extraordinary' users, such as the eighty somethings, in HCI. John Vines, Mark Blythe, Paul Dunphy, Vasillis Vlachokyriakos, Isaac Teece, Andrew F. Monk, Patrick Olivier |
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