2024 Year in Review
19
Research Projects
4
Bridges Fellowships
4
Labs
14
Articles
5
Journal Publications
15
Conferences Attended
2
Co-organized Conferences
27
Conference Presentations
4
Organized & Sponsored Exhibits
6
Honors & Grants
3
Books Published
5
Keynotes & Panels
1
New Global Learning Experience
19 Active Research Projects
LUCID Framework: From User Reviews to User-Centered Generative Design
Design for Social Change: Mitigating Bias in AI-Assisted Design
Design for Empowered Patientship
How Do Teens Learn About Sexual Health?
Improving Rural Health Access with Mobile Clinics
Empowerment and Trust: Improving the Airport Experience
African Built Heritage Project
Design for Conversations: Facilitating Intercultural Collaboration through Evocative Objects
Participatory Budgeting Deliberative Community Conversations
Urban Griots Playground
Visualizing Climate Risk Iniquities
CRISP: Co-Worker Robots to Impact Seafood Processing
Design Resources Repository
Data Sonification Archive
US-15: Collaboration with MIT Senseable City Lab
COVIC Archive
Polygraphs: Combatting Networks of Ignorance in the Misinformation Age
Data Visualization for Banca Intesa Processes
Dynamics Associated to Tone in Workshop Facilitation
+ 2 with Scout Labs
4 Bridges Fellowships
Piloting and Evaluating a Casebook for New Legal Imagination
Co-Designing a Network of Public Sector Design Scholars and Practitioners in Latin America
TEAM Health: Technology-Enhanced Approaches to Mental Health Navigation in Families with Young Children
A Co-Design Approach to Developing Children's Literacy and STEAM Skils Through Digital Drum Talk
15 Conferences Attended
27 Conference Presentations
CHI PLAY 2024
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From Novelty to Clinical Practice: Exploring VR Exergames with Physical Therapists
Maria Chiu, Elina Tochilnikova, Casper Harteveld
Read the paper here.
CogSci 2024
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Towards a Computational Model of Abstraction in Design Reasoning
Ryan Bruggeman, Estefania Ciliotta, Tucker Marion, Paolo Ciuccarell
Read the paper here.
DIS '24
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RePresent: Enabling Access to Justice for Pro Se Litigants via Co-Authored Serious Games
Casper Harteveld, Nithesh Javvaji, Omid Mohaddesi, Erica Kleinman, Kathy Daniels, Dan Jackson, Giovanni M Troiano
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More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research
Mafalda Gamboa, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Sarah Homewood, Andrés Lucero, Janne Mascha Beuthel, Audrey Desjardins, Karey Helms, William Gaver, Kristina Höök, Laura Forlano
Read the paper here.
DRS 2024
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Towards a Definition of Autographic Sonifications: Listening as an Act of Knowledge
Sara Lenzi, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Dietmar Offenhuber
Read the paper here. -
Designing tools for designers: The Data Sonification Canvas
Sara Lenzi, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Read the paper here. -
Mapping patient-centered design practices and actors within stakeholder networks to reimagine healthcare
Estefania Ciliotta, Michael Arnold Mages, Heni Bhungalia, Shannon Haley, Uri Seitz, Miso Kim, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Stefano Maffei, Beatrice Villari, Massimo Bianchini
Read the paper here. -
Harnessing information visualization as a vehicle for translational design
Joli Holmes, Matt Blanco, Todd Linkner, Estefania Ciliotta, Paolo Ciuccarelli
Read the paper here. -
Exploring opportunities to design for decision-making in palliative care contexts: A rapid overview of recent literature reviews in healthcare and design fields
Chenfei Yu, Michael Arnold Mages
Read the paper here. -
Cultivating Future-Oriented Responsibility in Design with Care
Irem Tekogul, Laura Forlano
Read the paper here. -
Reimagining Temporality: Exploring the Intersection of Time and Trauma in Design Research
Catherine Wieczorek, Laura Forlano
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More-Than-Human Design in Practice
Iohanna Nicenboim, Joseph Lindley, Cristina Zaga, Arne Berger, Laura Forlano, Elisa Giaccardi
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Empowering travelers: how might we improve the airport experience?
Workshop by Aniek Toet, Najla Mouchrek and Estefania Ciliotta. -
How Do LLMs Impact A Designer’s Process?
Workshop by Ryan Bruggeman, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Estefania Ciliotta, Mohsen Moghaddam and Tucker Marion. -
Uncovering Dynamics Of Tone In Workshop Facilitation
Workshop by Aashita Jain, Estefania Ciliotta and Michael Arnold Mages. -
Enhancing the end-of-life care experience: exploring touchpoints and moments of truth via material facilitation
Workshop by Chenfei Yu and Michael Arnold Mages. -
Design Meets Patient-Centeredness: Developing Evaluation Guidelines and Tools
Lab by Miso Kim, Stefano Maffei, Massimo Bianchini, Michael Arnold Mages, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Francesca Foglieni, Francesco Leoni, Estefania Ciliotta, Martina Carraro and Uri Seitz.
EMNLP 2024
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Shoes-ACOSI: A Dataset for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis with Implicit Opinion Extraction
Joseph Peper, Wenzhao Qiu, Ryan Bruggeman, Yi Han, Estefania Ciliotta, Lu Wang
Read the paper here.
IEEE ISMAR 2024
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Exploring the Distinctive and Synergistic Affordances of AR and VR for Complex Psychomotor Training
Poster by Varun Phadke, Casper Harteveld, Kemi Jona, Mohsen Moghaddam.
IEEE VISAP 2024
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A Perfect Storm
Chloe Hudson Prock, Pedro Cruz, Gregory Gold
View the pictorial here.
Media Mediterranea Festival
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The Sea Sees Us
Workshop by Skye Moret.
View the workshop here.
MobileHCI 2024
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"I Believe the Baby in the Picture is My Baby": User Experiences with Commercial Pregnancy Apps
Ghada Alsebayel, Giovanni Troiano, Casper Harteveld
Read the paper here.
This paper won honorable mention.
RSD13 Symposium
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Co-Creating Participatory Budgeting Systems: A multi-stakeholder conversation
Maria Ramirez Cifuentes, Estefania Ciliotta, Michael Arnold Mages, Aashita Jain and Angelique C-Dina
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Cultivating Narrative Resistance in Systemic Design
Azra Tugce Sungu, Weslynne Ashton, Laura Forlano
Read the paper here.
SCAR 2024
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Warming the Deep: visualizing Antarctic overturning circulation slowdown through printmaking
Skye Moret, Matthew Letzelter
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The scalar challenges of visually communicating Antarctic and Southern Ocean information
Skye Moret
Read the abstract here (#1491).
This abstract won the gold award for best presentation.
7 Experiences Summit 2024
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Improvisation-Based Design for Engaging and Meaningful Experiences: Creating Systems and Services that Go Beyond the Script
Kristian Kloeckl
Read the paper here (pg. 67).
2 Co-organized Conferences
DRS2024, hosted by CAMD, took place in Boston in June. Center for Design staff and core faculty were integral to the planning and management of the conference. They, along with members of CAMD faculty and staff, organized all aspects of the conference, from keynotes and workshops to Fringe events and the PhD Consortium. For full details of the positions held by CfD members, visit the website.
IEEE VISAP 2024 took place online in October. The Center for Design hosted watch parties of several conference presentations for local attendees and presenters. CfD core faculty member Pedro Cruz was a General Chair of the conference, and affiliate member Todd Linkner was a Design Chair. The Art + Design department within CAMD was a key sponsor of the conference.
1 New Global Learning Experience
The College of Arts Media and Design and the Center for Design sponsored twelve students to attend Milan Design Week in April 2024. Since its inception in 1961, Milan Design Week has served as one of the most significant events in the design industry, attracting designers, innovators and a variety of industry sectors from all over the world.
Led by CfD Founding Director Paolo Ciuccarelli, the selected students had an ambitious schedule during the week. They observed and analyzed how design is represented and experienced at the urban scale, preparing to create two reports from their interpretations of events and exhibitions. They developed an editorial report describing the outcomes of field research and drafting guidelines for the design of effective products-related urban events and experiences. The second report consisted of a one-minute video that synthesized their experiences, acting as a teaser for those who may attend in the future. View their reports on the website.
While 2024 was the inaugural edition of the new global learning experience for the college, the CAMD and Center for Design teams intend to continue the initiative each spring.
5 Journal Publications
Emotion in Motion
by Pedro Cruz
Nightingale Magazine: The Journal of the Data Visualization Society
Issue 4
Read it here.
A Gradient of Unisons: The Emergent Superunit in Collective Action
by Stephen Neely and Michael Arnold Mages
Design Issues
Volume 40, Issue 2
Read it here.
Imposing Motion Variability for Ergonomic Human-Robot Collaboration
by Mark Zolotas, Rui Luo, Salah Bazzi, Dipanjan Saha, Katiso Mabulu, Kristian Kloeckl and Taşkın Padır
IISE Transactions on Occupational Ergonomics and Human Factors
Volume 12, Issue 1-2
Read it here.
Re(de)fining Sonification: Project Classification Strategies in the Data Sonification Archive
by PerMagnus Lindborg, Valentina Caiola, Paolo Ciuccarelli, Manni Chen and Sara Lenzi
Journal of the Audio Engineering Society
Volume 72, Number 9
Read it here.
Viewpoints/Points of View: Building a Transdisciplinary Data Theatre Collaboration in Six Scenes
by Dani Snyder-Young, Michael Arnold Mages, Rahul Bhargava, Jonathan Carr, Laura Perovich, Victor Talmadge, Oliver Wason, Moira Zellner, Angelique C-Dina, Ren Birnholz, Halle Brockett, Ezekiel D’Ascoli, Donovan Holt, Sydney Love and George Belliveau
Arts
Volume 13, Issue 1
Read it here.
3 Books
Cyborg
by Laura Forlano and Danya Glabau
A concise introduction to cyborg theory that examines the way in which technology is situated, political, and embodied.
Read the full description here.
Published by MIT Press.
Legal Design: Dignifying People in Legal Systems
Co-edited by Miso Kim, Dan Jackson and Jules Rochielle Sievert
A comprehensive introduction to legal design, covering fundamental concepts, definitions, and theories.
Read the full description here.
Published by Cambridge University Press.
Conversational Design
by Michael Arnold Mages
A valuable guide for designers in public and social sectors, offering tools and case studies to improve co-design, decision-making, and participation, fostering more effective conversations to achieve shared goals.
Read the full description here.
Published by BIS Publishers.
14 Articles
Grounding Practice Research in Law
by the Center for Design
Reimagining Co-Design: Leveraging Culture, Rhythm & Embodiment
by the Center for Design
Where Does Data Visualization Fit In an AI-Driven World?
by Enrico Bertini
Fostering Social Impact Through Civic Design
by the Center for Design
Disability and Design Futures: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Design for Access
by the Center for Design
Perception and Modeling for Healthcare Design
by the Center for Design
What Can GenAI (Really) Do For Data Visualization?
by Enrico Bertini
Infopoetry: Bridging Data and Emotions to Engage Users
by Paolo Ciuccarelli
What Can Generative AI (Really) Do for Data Visualization?
by Paolo Ciuccarelli
What Does it Mean to Make Data Visualization Inclusive?
by Paolo Ciuccarelli
Researchers use drones and VR to preserve at-risk African architecture
by Cody Mello-Klein
VR meditation game developed by Northeastern researchers to enhance breath awareness
by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
4 Organized & Sponsored Exhibits
The Secret Life of Sneakers
Sponsored by the Center for Design
This exhibition by CAMD IDDV Assistant Professor Carmen Hull and her team was on display at TwoTwelveChelsea in Chelsea, MA. In collaboration with The Footwear Collective, the team built a physical data installation that visualizes the sneaker lifecycle. Visitors were encouraged to bring a pair of sneakers to recycle.
Learn more about the exhibit here.
A Perfect Storm
Created by Pedro M. Cruz, Chloe Hudson Prock and Gregory Gold
“A Perfect Storm: Visualizing Climate Risk and Emissions” was on display at Existência Numérica in Rio de Janeiro. This data visualization project was created by Chloe Hudson Prock and Gregory Gold, with the support of their advisor, CfD core faculty member Pedro M. Cruz. Using data on global climate risk and greenhouse gas emissions, the team emphasized the inequality between countries contributions to climate change, and their experience of climate-change disasters. The purpose was to enable reflection on this disparity, as well as on how the capitalist model of unlimited growth in a world of finite resources is driving us towards catastrophe.
Learn more about the exhibit here.
Milan Design Week 2024
Curated by Paolo Ciuccarelli
Center for Design Founding Director Paolo Ciuccarelli was the scientific curator of Milan Design Week 2024. In partnership with Publicis Group, he created a data-driven, AI-supported communication campaign platform. The campaign seamlessly merged art, design, and technology to articulate the stories around the event. The artworks expressed, interpreted and enriched the iconic event and its culture. By blending human creativity with AI's power, the dynamic visuals represented the evolving conversations around and about design, becoming dynamic vessels for experiences, memories and emotions.
Learn more about the campaign here.
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Pop-Up Putt Putt
Sponsored by the Center for Design
The final project for the students of Physical Computing with CfD Affiliate Member Rahul Bhargava was to create a tabletop miniature golf course. These holes used monitors and sensors to make playable, interactive versions of mythological stories. They moved, lit up and played sound effects. The students showcased their projects at the Boston CyberArts Gallery and visitors could play the course.
5 Keynotes & Panels
The Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence
Panel with Paolo Ciuccarelli
Milan Design Week 2024
6 Interviews & Podcasts
The PolicyViz Podcast
Tracing the Narrative: The Art of Autographic Design in Data Analysis with Dietmar Offenhuber
gguttalks Podcast
Data Visualization, AI, Technology, and the Future Beyond Visuals with Paolo Ciuccarelli
Urgent Futures Podcast
Laura Forlano & Danya Glabau: Living Well with Machines, Real-World Cyborg Futures, and Critical Cyborg Literacy
Interdisciplinary Urban Studies and Data Art
by Mario Schmidhumer
In our interview with Prof. Dietmar Offenhuber, we find out how important interdisciplinary approaches are in research and what role data plays in a digitalised world.
Read the full interview with Ars Electronica here.
Photo by Patrick Münnich
Video: Game design professor Casper Harteveld: ‘Dream big and chase the impossible’
by Jorgy Cruz
Meet Northeastern’s associate dean of graduate programs and strategic initiatives in the College of Arts, Media and Design.
Watch the full interview with Northeastern University here.
6 Honors & Grants
Ang Li received the 2024 Northeastern University Excellence in Research and Creativity Award
Laura Forlano chosen as a 2024-2025 "Erasure" Fellow with the Humanities Center
CAMD Impact Groups
Design for Social Change: Mitigating Bias in AI-Assisted Design Processes
Co-Principal Investigators: Paolo Ciuccarelli and Estefania Ciliotta
NSF Responsible Design, Development, and Deployment of Technologies (ReDDDoT) Grant
An AI toolkit for Designing Inclusive Digital Activities for Older Adults
Principal Investigator: Bob De Schutter
Co-Principal Investigators: Celia Pearce, Leanne Chukoskie, Miso Kim and Casper Harteveld
NSF Research on Innovative Technologies for Enhanced Learning (RITEL) Program
AI Empowered Reflective Learning Across the Virtuality Spectrum
Principal Investigator: Casper Harteveld
Co-Principal Investigators: Eileen McGivney, Seth Cooper, Mehmet Kosa and Erica Kleinman
Northeastern University Transforming Interdisciplinary Experiential Research (TIER) 1 Grant
Health at All Scales: Innovating a Multi-modal Rural Healthcare System
Co-Principal Investigators: Sara Carr, Katherine Simmonds, Michael Arnold Mages, Susan Mello, Tiana Yom and Estefania Ciliotta