Best paper-Honourable Mention award DIS2025: “Searching for the Words that ‘Feel Right’: Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)”

I am pleased to announce that our paper has received an Honourable Mention award at the ACM DIS 2025 Conference in Funchal, Portugal. ⭐ Our article is titled “Searching for the Words that ‘Feel Right’: Resonating with our Bodies and Felt Senses Through Haiku and Large Language Models (LLMs)”. In our research, we explore how…

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Best paper-Honourable Mention award DIS2024: “Articulating Felt Senses for More-Than-Human Design: A Viewpoint for Noticing”

I am thrilled to announce that our paper “Articulating Felt Senses for More-Than-Human Design: A Viewpoint for Noticing” co-authored with Anton Poikolainen Rosén, has been awarded an Honorable Mention at DIS2024! Our paper was recognised as part of the top 5% in an already very competitive conference. In our paper, we introduce felt sense as…

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Resumen – Participación en el workshop More-than-human design: making and unmaking design beyond the human. Diseño UC

Workshop organizado por Martín Tironi, Matías Valderrama, Pablo Hermansen, y Renato Bernasconi de la Escuela de Diseño UC. Este workshop contó con la participación de Laura Forlano, profesora asociada del Institute of Design del Illinois Institute of Technology. Abajo incluyo un pequeño extracto- resumen de mi participación. (…) La diseñadora Claudia Nuñez Pacheco (U. Austral) presentó su…

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Conversatorio: Programa INGENIOSAS “Ciencia y tecnología para todas” [Girls in tech]

Honrada de haber sido invitada a compartir mis experiencias como académica e investigadora con las estudiantes del Liceo Bicentenario, Valdivia.  Como aclaración, aludí a la capacidad de incluirnos como una llamada a encontrarnos con el pensamiento transdisciplinar, en donde la colaboración y la inclusión son fundamentales para responder a los grandes desafíos sociales que enfrenta…

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TCS – Taller Cuerpo Sur IV Cuerpo, Paisaje y Tecnología

Taller Cuerpo Sur TCS (translated as “Body South Workshop” from Spanish) is an initiative emerging from academics at the UACH Faculty of Architecture and Arts, intended to offer spaces for reflection and exploration around the body in contemporary culture. The TCS approach combines both practical and theoretical dimensions granted by the situated body in space…

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Our new book: Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat. BIS Publishers

Design. Think. Make. Break. Repeat. provides a comprehensive collection of 60 methods applicable to any design innovation project. This handbook provides a flexible, interactive learning resource for anyone interested in learning about design thinking methods and their use for product and service innovation. It includes easy-to-follow exercises for each method along with ready-to-use templates and…

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TEI 2017 Studio: ​The Body as a Source of Aesthetic Qualities for Design ​Explorations and techniques

As part of the outcomes of The Felt Sense Project, Lian Loke and I ran a studio on somatic-based exploration and techniques for interaction design. This workshop was intended to explore ways of unearthing aesthetic qualities from everyday experiences and to evaluate sensory information through the body. This studio was part of the TEI 2017…

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