People with Parkinson’s disease (PwP) engage in diverse self-care practices, including tracking medication and symptoms. While consumer-oriented health technologies have supported such practices, specialized technologies for Parkinson’s disease (PD) are increasingly being integrated into clinical care. This paper reports on a design inquiry including PwP and healthcare professionals aimed at eliciting needs for meaningful representations of PD symptom-tracking data. We conducted a toolkit-based data elicitation workshop with 8 PwP experienced with sensor-based active tests to assess motor symptoms, alongside 15 interviews with clinicians, including neurologists, nurses, and physiotherapists. Interviews combined dashboard prototypes centered on simulated active test data with collaborative prompt-based prototyping. Our findings show that PwP and clinicians rely on one another to interpret symptom-tracking data, and that the resulting data representations may influence the focus of clinical encounters. Active test data is found particularly valuable for nurses and physiotherapists, while highlighting tensions in using such data to support neurologists’ medication-related decision-making without increasing testing burdens for PwP.

Keeping track of symptoms is a familiar yet often complex task for people living with chronic conditions. In the context of Parkinson's disease, sensor-based technologies are becoming more common to track motor symptoms. These technologies typically rely on passive monitoring but can also be combined with active tests, in which users intentionally perform measuring tasks like finger-tapping or drawing. In this paper, we explore how people with Parkinson's experienced using such active tests through a smartphone app over the course of eight weeks. Drawing on 26 semi-structured interviews, our findings indicate that active tests impact bodily awareness, come with frictions of integration into daily life and may be reframed as motivations for exercises. Speculations on the resulting data suggest that these are partly seen as a useful resource for self-care, but also as a potential cause for anxiety and ambivalence when facing worsening symptoms and decline.

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are becoming more and more common in homes, making the security and privacy of these increasingly important. To investigate how the users’ security and privacy practices can be improved, it is necessary to understand the current everyday practices and what impacts these. In an interview study, this paper reveals that users’ practices are primarily influenced by the convenience offered by the IoT device, and the motivation and the effort required from the user to make themselves aware of the security requirements and enact change within their IoT ecosystem.

In recent decades, phenomenology and post-phenomenology have gained significant prominence within Interaction Design. In the process, various phenomenological theories have found their way into scholarly dialogues and design practices. In this essay, I trace the diverse influences and transformations that phenomenological thinking has undergone within theoretical discourse and design practice. This paper demonstrates how phenomenology has left its mark on the creative process and enhanced our comprehension of users’ experiences. However, I contend that there remains a disconnect between theoretical aspirations and design execution, with many designs lacking the required analytical depth to transcend a simplistic human-technology dichotomy. To address these gaps, I propose to formulate a distinct ’Interaction Design Phenomenology’ that (1) provides a comprehensive understanding of the many phenomenological approaches and their practical applications and (2) offers a a vocabulary for expanding and deepening phenomenologically informed design work.

Municipalities around the world have become increasingly reliant upon digital technologies in their everyday operations. In pursuit of a faster, cheaper, and more efficient local government, service platforms and applications that mediate citizen-government inter- actions, smart city infrastructures, and automated decision-making systems have proliferated. More recently, digital technologies are also sought to address socially complex issues and foster civic en- gagement. These ambitions, motivated by both rational and demo- cratic perspectives, however, confront many challenges such as de- signing with wide heterogeneous groups, navigating organizational structures, and dealing with the political agendas and conflicting perspectives of multiple stakeholders. Designing digital technolo- gies for municipalities, therefore, requires an ability to address the technical, social, institutional, and political challenges critically, practically, and holistically. This hybrid workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to (1) explore how this could be achieved and (2) map the existing and emerging challenges and opportunities for designing public digital services and technologies.

Family life is no longer confined to geographically shared spaces. More often, families are separated. T echnology offers countless means of keeping families connected, which has been subject of extensive research. Yet, connection between families goes beyond interpersonal communication. Being separated from extended family means to be separated from familiar rituals, habits, and values. In this paper we present an ethnographic study of mobile families to understand how families are dealing with this kind of separation in their everyday life. We analyze situated practices and discuss how these families create a sense of connectedness to their country of origin. Our observations show that design for connectedness should address practices and materialities that are part of the family home. Furthermore, we argue that there should be more consideration for what the family connects to: Instead of connecting between people, connectedness can also be seen as staying in touch with familiar routines, customs, and environments.

HCI research on mobility and transport has been dominated by a focus on the automobile. Yet urgent environmental concerns, along with new transport technologies, have created an opportunity for new ways of thinking about how we get from A to B. App-based services, innovations in electric motors, along with changing urban transport patterns, are transforming public transit. Technology is creating new collective transit services, as well as new ways for individuals to move, such as through rental, free-floating e-scooters, so called 'micro-mobility'. This workshop seeks to discuss and establish HCI perspectives on these new mobilities - engaging with and even inventing new modes of transport, fostering collaboration between scholars with varied topical interests around mobility. We seek to bring together a group of industry and academic collaborators, bringing new competences to HCI around the exciting opportunities of redesigning our contemporary mobilities.

New technological possibilities associated with autonomous driving (AD) cars are generating new questions and imaginaries about automated futures. In this article we advance a theoretical-methodological approach towards researching this context based in design anthropological theory and sensory ethnographic practice. In doing so we explain and discuss the findings of an in-car video ethnography study designed to investigate the usually unspoken and not necessarily visible elements of car-based mobility. Such an approach is needed, we argue, both in order to inform a research agenda that is capable of addressing the emergence of automated vehicles specifically, as well as in preparation for understanding the implications of automation more generally as human mobility is increasingly entangled with automated technologies and the future imaginaries associated with them.

In this article we outline and demonstrate a design anthropological approach to investigating automated mobile futures as a processual opening up of possibilities, rather than as a process of technological innovation. To undertake this we investigate the example of how the car-smartphone relationship is configuring in the contingent circumstances of the mobile present and the implications of this for automated mobile futures. Our discussion is set in the context of the growing possibility that automonous driving (AD) features are increasingly part of everyday mobilities (even if unequally distributed globally) and in which personal mobile smart technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) will exist in some form and will interface with humans and be interoperable with other technologies. In developing this we draw on ethnographic understandings of how people live with the possibilities afforded by technologies in everyday life.