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Capra

Capra is a system for collecting and exploring hiking data, helping hikers connect with nature and memories through a long-term personal archive.

Olo Radio

This project enables people to re-experience and explore their digital music listening history data in ways that change and evolve through time.

Chronoscope

This project enables people to re-experience and explore various connections across their digital photo archive through different forms of time.

Queue Player

This project enables a pre-existing social group to explore a collective archive of their music listening history data through co-listening, and encourages social connection and reflection over time.

Olly

This research presents a music player that randomly resurfaces past songs from listening histories, creating situations for reflecting on digital archives.

Memory Tracer

Memory Tracer novel ways of surfacing and living with past location-based moments from your life.

Beyond Looking Back

This research takes a multi-year participatory approach to co-designing sound-based interactive technologies that support reminiscence experiences for people with blindness.

Metaphor Workbooks

Metaphor Workbooks use creative metaphor-making about smartphone use to help teenagers build critical data literacy and reflect on their entanglement with the data economy.

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Alternative Research Outcomes

This project investigates creative methods for disseminating research to bridge the gap between research findings and communities beyond academic boundaries.

Memory Compass

Memory Compass offers novel ways of interacting with past location-based moments in your life.

PhotoClock

PhotoClock enables you to relive memories in your digital photos based on the current time of the day as the clock ticks in the present moment.

Data Intermediaries

This project introduces data intermediaries, exploring how they enable individuals to manage personal data independently and securely.

Introspective AI

This research examines how AI and personal data can encourage self-reflection by offering alternative perspectives, posing unique questions for future design.

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Other Homes

This research examines innovative home design, proposing ways technology can support diverse living arrangements and expand the definition of "home."

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Quologue

This study explores interactive systems that introduce humor into digital conversations, enhancing engagement through playful responses.

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Slow Technology Theory

This research develops a framework for designing technology that emphasizes slower, reflective interactions, promoting deeper engagement.

Homeware Lab
Simon Fraser University
School of Interactive Arts + Technology
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Homeware Lab operates in the Greater Vancouver area in Canada on the unceded traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem (kwikwəƛ̓əm), Qayqayt, Musqueam (xwməθkwəyəm), and numerous Stó:lō Nations.

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