Peer-reviewed archival research publications
Designing for Rest: Rethinking Access for / from Chronic Illness.
Sylvia Janicki, Julio de Pereda Banda, Lisette A Romero, Sarah R Harris, Xuanyu Guo, Noura Howell, Abigale Stangl.
CHI EA ’25. Extended abstract
Towards Designing for Everyday Thermal Experiences.
Sosuke Ichihashi, Kosha Bheda, Noura Howell.
TEI ’25. Pictorial
Mold Sounds: Queering Ecologies in Polyphonic Material Explorations.
Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Michael Nitsche, Noura Howell.
TEI ’25. Pictorial
Swell by Light: An Approachable Technique for Freeform Raised Textures.
Sosuke Ichihashi, Noura Howell, HyunJoo Oh.
TEI ’25. Pictorial.
Hydroptical Thermal Feedback: Spatial Thermal Feedback Using Visible Lights and Water.
Sosuke Ichihashi, Masahiko Inami, Hsin-Ni Ho, Noura Howell.
UIST ’24. Paper
Promoting Criticality with Design Futuring with Young Children.
Sumita Sharma, Noura Howell, Leena Ventä-Olkkonen, Netta Iivari, Grace Eden, Heidi Hartikainen, Marianne Kinnula, Eva Durall, Michael Nitsche, Jussi Okkonen, Supratim Pait, Elisa Rubegni, Wouter Sluis-Thiescheffer, Lonneke van der Velden, Uttishta Sreerama Varanasi.
NordiCHI ’24. Paper
Reflective Design for Informal Participatory Algorithm Auditing: A Case Study with Emotion AI.
Noura Howell, Watson Hartsoe, Jacob Amin, Vyshnavi Namani.
NordiCHI ’24. Paper
Crip Reflections on Designing with Plants: Intersecting Disability Theory, Chronic Illness, and More-than-Human Design.
Best Paper Award
Sylvia Janicki, Nassim Parvin, Noura Howell.
DIS ’24. Paper
Red [Redacted] Theatre: Queering Puzzle-Based Tangible Interaction Design.
Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Rachel Donley, Terra Mae Gasque, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan.
DIS ’24. Pictorial
“Tuning in and listening to the current”: Understanding Remote Ritual Practice in Sufi Communities.
Sandjar Kozubaev, Noura Howell.
DIS ’24. Paper
Designing an Archive of Feelings: Queering Tangible Interaction with Button Portraits.
Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Sylvia Janicki, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan.
CHI ’24. Paper
Swarm Body: Embodied Swarm Robots.
Sosuke Ichihashi, So Kuroki, Mai Nishimura, Kazumi Kasaura, Takefumi Hiraki, Kazutoshi Tanaka, Shigeo Yoshida.
CHI ’24. Paper
Queering / Cripping Technologies of Productivity.
Sylvia Janicki, Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan and Abigale Stangl.
CHI EA ’24. Extended abstract
Sensing Bodies: Engaging Postcolonial Histories through More-than-Human Interactions.
Sylvia Janicki, Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan, Nassim Parvin.
TEI ’24. Pictorial
Inspire creativity with ORIBA: Transform Artists’ Original Characters into Chatbots through Large Language Model.
Yuqian Sun, Xingyu Li, Jun Peng, Ze Gao.
UbiComp/ISWC ’23 Adjunct. Poster
Button Portraits: Embodying Queer History with Interactive Wearable Artifacts.
Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Noura Howell, Anne Sullivan.
ICIDS ’22. Paper
Feeling Air: Exploring Aesthetic and Material Qualities of Architectural Inflatables.
Noura Howell, Shawn Protz, Jasmyn Byrd, Miguel Castellanos, Alexis Elkins, Jessica Hall, Micah Holdsworth, Lalith Mallikeshwaran Rajagopal Sambasivan, Chris Noel, Oluwarotimi Osiberu, Rushabh Patel, Dylan Scallan, Abigail Uhrich, Aditya Anupam, Blaire Bosley, Rachel Donley, Sara Milkes Espinosa, Michelle Ramirez, Sanjeev Nayak, Anh-Ton Tran, Yiyun Jia, Yunfei Wang. 2022.
NordiCHI ’22. Paper
Position papers at workshops
Applying Theory of Mind to Personalize AI: Insights for Supporting Life Transitions.
Lingqing Wang and Xingyu Li.
Theory of Mind in Human-AI Interaction ws at CHI ’24. Position paper
PlayFutures: Imagining Civic Futures with AI and Puppets.
Supratim Pait, Noura Howell, Michael Nitsche.
Child-Centred AI workshop at CHI ’24.
Queer Archival Design in Tangible Embodied Interactive Experiences.
Alexandra Teixeira Riggs.
TEI ’24 Doctoral Consortium.
Crip Feminism for Chronic Illness: Rethinking Digital Technologies and Data Practices through the Political / Relational Model of Disability.
Sylvia Janicki.
A Toolbox of Feminist Wonder workshop at CSCW ’23.
An Artist Residency with Thermal Painting for A Multi-Sensorial Exhibition.
Supratim Pait, Sosuke Ichihashi, Noura Howell.
Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS workshop at DIS ’23.
Fast-Switching, Spatial Thermal Display Using Water and Visible Lights.
Sosuke Ichihashi, Masahiko Inami, Noura Howell.
Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces workshop at CHI ’23.
Hosting workshops
Advancing Creative Physical Computing Education: Designing, Sharing, and Taxonomizing Instructional Interventions.
Byrne, DesPortes, Howell, Louw, Sterman, Torres.
DIS ’24.
Mapping Futures and Futuring in HCI/Design.
Jenkins, Tsaknaki, Howell, Boer, Wong, Campo Woytuk, Kun, Juul Søndergaard.
DIS ’24.
Designing with Biosignals: Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions for Integrating Physiological Signals in Human-Computer Interaction.
Stepanova, Desnoyers-Stewart, Kitson, Riecke, Antle, El Ali, Frey, Tsaknaki, and Howell.
DIS ’23.
Towards Mutual Benefit: Reflecting on Artist Residencies as a Method for Collaboration in DIS.
Devendorf, Buechley, Howell, Jacobs, Kao, Murer, Rosner, Ross, Soden, Tso, and Zheng.
DIS ’23.
Fabulating Futures for Flourishing and Vibrant Worlds.
Jenkins, Juul Søndergaard, Sanches, Tsaknaki, Campo Woytuk, Howell, Helms, Boer, and Tucker.
Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes ’23).
Hosting panels
What should we do with Emotion AI? Towards an agenda for the next 30 years.
Andalibi, Stark, McDuff, Picard, Gratch, Howell.
CSCW ’24.