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Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment (2025)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Sailaja, N., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (in press). Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment. Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555

This paper introduces a novel methodological approach for surfacing the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront future and emerging technologies from the perspective of mundane action, in which they will ultimately be embedded and used. T... Read More about Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment.

Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices (2024)
Journal Article
Castle-Green, T., & Sailaja, N. (2024). Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices. BASE - Revista de Administração e Contabilidade da Unisinos, 9(10), 150-161. https://doi.org/10.52611/bdi.num10.2024.999

Electronic waste, commonly referred to as e-waste, is a health and environmental hazard that affects many people and ecosystems around the world. As the volume of e-waste continues to surge, it is imperative this issue is addressed. Contributing to t... Read More about Addressing E-Waste: Repair Café Processes as Barriers to Repair of Smart Devices.

Exploration of User Perspectives around Software and Data-Related Challenges Associated with IoT Repair and Maintenance against Obsolescence: User Study on Software and Data Interactions and Considerations for IoT Repair and Maintenance against Obsolescence (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vats, T., Sailaja, N., & Anselmo Polido Lopes, F. (2024, October). Exploration of User Perspectives around Software and Data-Related Challenges Associated with IoT Repair and Maintenance against Obsolescence: User Study on Software and Data Interactions and Considerations for IoT Repair and Maintenance against Obsolescence. Presented at NordiCHI 2024: Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Uppsala, Sweden

As the uptake of Internet of Things (IoT) exacerbates, questions around the environmental impacts of its making and maintenance call to be considered with urgency. Here, the inherent unsustainable nature of these devices has rarely been considered.,... Read More about Exploration of User Perspectives around Software and Data-Related Challenges Associated with IoT Repair and Maintenance against Obsolescence: User Study on Software and Data Interactions and Considerations for IoT Repair and Maintenance against Obsolescence.

Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coulton, P., Stead, M., Pilling, M., Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., & Sailaja, N. (2024, October). Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures. Presented at Mindtrek 2024, Tampere, Finland

While prosocial behaviour is often described as behaviour intended to help and benefit others, it is primarily considered through an anthropocentric lens in that the others in question are principally humans. In this research, we consider designed sy... Read More about Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures.

"It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Castle-Green, T., Lewandowska, K., & Sailaja, N. (2024, September). "It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT. Presented at GoodIT '24: International Conference on Information Technology for Social Good, Bremen, Germany

Fueled by the rapidly increasing Internet of Things industry, the volume of global e-waste escalates annually posing significant health and environmental risks. Our research around repairability of IoT devices to elongate their lifespan has uncovered... Read More about "It's All Connected" -A Boardgame to Communicate Climate Impacts of IoT.

User-Centred Repair: From Current Practices to Future Design (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kilic, D., & Sailaja, N. (2024, June). User-Centred Repair: From Current Practices to Future Design. Presented at International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2024), Washington D.C., U.S.A

From the kitchen to the bathroom, homes are now equipped with various technological devices like smart vacuums, intelligent mirrors, digital thermostats, wearables, and voice-controlled assistants such as Amazon Alexa. This surge in ubiquitous techno... Read More about User-Centred Repair: From Current Practices to Future Design.

UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Castle-Green, T., Coulton, P., Stead, M., Lindley, J., Urquhart, L., & Darzentas, D. P. (2023, October). UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices. Presented at UbiComp/ISWC '23: The 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo Mexico

IoT products are increasingly becoming the default, with non-IoT versions of common hardware (e.g., TVs and printers) harder to find. Alongside this adoption surge, lack of support, outdated security, and planned obsolescence present concerning susta... Read More about UbiFix: Tackling Repairability Challenges in Smart Devices.

Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., McAuley, D., & Stenton, P. (2018, June). Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data. Presented at ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, Seoul, Republic of Korea

The turn towards personal data to drive novel media experiences has resulted in a shift in the priorities and challenges associated with media creation and dissemination. This paper takes up the challenge of explicating this novel and dynamic scenari... Read More about Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data.

Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things (2017)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., Sailaja, N., & McAuley, D. (2018). Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 22, 317-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1069-2

Bringing the new right to data portability (RTDP) from an abstract legal provision in Article 20 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2016 into practice requires a greater role for the IT design community. Simply put, the RTDP seeks to... Read More about Realising the right to data portability for the domestic Internet of things.