James Pierce, PhD
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Projects
Arca: An Inclusive, Privacy-Enhancing Smart Home Camera
An inclusive, privacy-enhancing smart camera prototype.
Adjacent User Privacy for Spatial Sensing Technologies
Design proposals, scenarios, and frameworks for addressing privacy of bystanders, co-users, and non-consenting subjects of smart sensing devices.
Obscura 1C Digital Camera
A small camera that can records nearly infinite images, but accessing them requires irreversibly smashing the device apart.
The Local Energy Indicator
A prototype home energy display for domestic wind and solar generation.
Roomba+Clips
A vacuum that moves where it wants + a camera that photographs what it wants
Energy Mementos
Functional prototypes for collecting and sharing small amounts of electrical power and energy.
Body-Powered Electrical Materiality Form Studies
Form explorations of human-powered interactivity electricity.
Counterfunctional Devices Study
Design explorations based on the removal and inversion of expected functionality.
Some Variations on a Counterfunctional Digital Camera
A design booklet presenting a series of counterfunctional camera variants.
Privacy and Data Policies in Print
Because nobody actually reads them.
Design Proposals for a Wireless Derouter
A series of design explorations and short essays on disconnecting from the Internet.
Materializing Energy Design Approach
Tangible interactions with electrical power and energy.
Smart Home Security Cameras and Shifting Lines of Creepiness
Designerly investigations of smart sensors in sensitive everyday spaces.
Speculative Biosensing Participatory Workbooks
Speculative designs for eliciting reflections on privacy with biosensing applications.
Network Anxieties
New design metaphors for addressing internet anxieties
Frictional Design
A theory of speculative design.