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    PDC Places: Landscapes of participatory design in Ireland
    (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2022-08-19) Storni, Cristiano; Morrissey, Kellie; Ciolfi, Luigina; Foley, Sarah
    Ireland has many established participatory design experts and enthusiasts, and a rich landscape of practice. PDC Place Ireland comprises of a series of panels, exhibitions, and workshops, and will bring together academics, research students and practitioners to explore current practices in participatory design enacted in Ireland and internationally. These events will map participatory research across a number of contemporary contexts including public health, architecture, policymaking, and disability.
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    Appropriation of digital tracking tools in an online weight loss community: Individual and shared experiences
    (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2021-06-28) Ryan, Kathleen; Linehan, Conor; Dockray, Samantha; Irish Research Council; S3 Connected Health, Ireland
    Online health communities provide a space where people seek out and provide support for weight loss activities, including tracking. Our study examined the experiences of members of an online community (r/loseit on Reddit.com) who posted about using digital tracking tools for weight loss. A targeted search garnered 379 public posts, which were analyzed using Thematic Analysis. Four themes reflected members’ individual and shared experiences: Tracking as gaining insight, Tracking as a vehicle of control, Confronting challenges in sustaining tracking and Teaching and learning the skills of tracking. We highlight complex socio-technical processes that members developed around tracking tools and discuss how knowledge of these appropriations can be applied to designing future user-centered tracking tools to support weight loss. We discuss how the social context of an online health community can shape both the usage of tracking tools and self-regulatory processes for health behaviour change.
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    Imagining the Cool-ag: or, freedom considered harmful
    (Association for Computing Machinery, ACM, 2019-11) Linehan, Conor; Kirman, Ben
    This short paper makes an argument about our lack of comfort, as researchers, in developing a science, and a technology, for enacting control over behavior. We present a design fiction about a smart prison, in which behavior change is facilitated via always-on IoT-facilitated monitoring. This fiction may be read simultaneously as a constructive application of behavioural science to an appropriate context, and as a dystopian attack on personal freedom. We argue that the implementation of ubicomp systems that are intended to facilitate behavior change (i.e., almost all ubicomp systems), will inevitably lead to questions over personal freedom. We draw parallels to the reaction of society to the field of behavioural psychology, which has an expressed goal of gaining prediction and control over behavior. Ultimately, if we are to realise the potential of ubicomp to change society positively, we need to become comfortable with enacting control, or in other words, taking responsibility.
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    Bread stories: understanding the drivers of bread consumption for digital food customisation
    (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2017-11) Pantidi, Nadia; Selinas, Paris; Baurley, Sharon; Flintham, Martin; Rodden, Tom; Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
    Consumer demand1 for food that satisfies specific needs rather than generic mass produced food is growing. In response, the food industry is actively investigating techniques for efficient and comprehensive food customisation. Digital approaches to food customisation are starting to emerge, however, the majority is currently limited to the ingredient level thus excluding consumption drivers such as people's practices and values around food. Using the approach of cultural probes, we identified four distinct narratives around bread consumption: the healthy bread, the fresh bread, the ethical bread, and the exceptional bread. These themes encapsulate drivers of bread consumption, which we argue can inform the design of digital food innovation platforms.
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    Conflict and belonging: socially engaged art practice as a resource for resilience-building in rurban communities
    (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2019-06) Murray, Maria; Pantidi, Nadia; Hogan, Trevor
    Rapidly expanding rural ("rurban") areas are generally discussed with regard to logistical and administrative challenges while the impact of expansion on community resilience remains relatively unexamined. This paper describes a preliminary study on rurban community resilience with a view to supporting these communities with digital socially engaged art interventions. A series of focus groups, conducted to better understand the strengths of and challenges faced by rurban communities, demonstrated nuanced notions of identity as well as identity tensions that paradoxically contribute to a sense of belonging and inclusion. We propose that engaging with this kind of 'identity work' is a necessary first step for those who wish to deploy digital SEA interventions in communities undergoing rapid changes.