Will we in the future wear Memes? Nordic students already do. Despite two decades of HCI research on social wearables, we are yet to see widespread adoption. In our generative design research, we investigate the utilisation of social wearables in the students’ practice of wearing and adorning boiler suits. We found a variety of social interactions, including spamming and digital memes, as a concept for designers.

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In a year long study we observed an agile software development team, to understand, how it establishes security practices following a security consultancy. This included in-situ observation at a security workshop and interviews with developers and management. In our long paper for CSCW 2017 we reveal that the consultancy helped understanding, but was not sufficient to change organizational routines.

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Felix A. Epp

Felix A. Epp is a doctoral researcher at Aalto University in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design under Prof. Elisa D. Mekler and Antti Salovaara. He investigates how wearable technology can shape our face-to-face social interactions in his thesis work. Further, he develops methods to integrate futures thinking into the technology innovation practice.


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Helsinki, Finland