Art Building, Room 236C
jjpierce@uw.edu

I'm an Assistant Professor and Chair of Interaction Design in the Division of Design at the University of Washington. I'm also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Human Centered Design and Engineering Department at University of Washington, a member of the MHCI+D Faculty Group, and a research affiliate of the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity.

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0000-0002-2192-1728

Richmond Y. Wong, Jason Caleb Valdez, Ashten Alexander, Ariel Chiang, Olivia Quesada, and James Pierce. 2023. Broadening Privacy and Surveillance: Eliciting Interconnected Values with a Scenarios Workbook on Smart Home Cameras. Proc. of DIS '23.
[ACM Open Access]

James Pierce, Isha Agarwal, Parag Nandi, Claire Weizenneger, Gwenna Gram, Jade Hurle, Betty Lo, Aaron Park, Aivy Phan, Mark Schumskiy, and Grace Sturlaugson. “Addressing Adjacent User Privacy.” Proc. of DIS '22.
[ACM Open Access]

Neilly Tan, Richmond Wong, Audrey Desjardins, Sean Munson, and James Pierce. “More Than a Camera, More Than a Security Device: Studying How Primary Users Use Smart Home Cameras to Extend Perception, Mediate Action, and Surveil Others.” Proc. of CHI '22.
[ACM Open Access]

James Pierce (2021). “In Tension With Progression: The Frictional Tendencies of Speculative, Critical, and Other Alternative Designs.” Proc. of 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. ACM Press. Best Paper Award Honorable Mention (Top 5% of total submissions)
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[Short conference presentation]

James Pierce (2021). “Eccentric Sensing Devices: Using Conceptual Design Notes to Understand Design Opportunities, Limitations, and Concerns Connected to Digital Sensing.” Proc. of C&C '21.
[ACM Open Access]

Jesse Benjamin, Nick Merrill, Arne Berger, and James Pierce (2021). “Machine Learning Uncertainty as a Design Material: A Post-Phenomenological Inquiry.” Proc. of CHI '21.
[ACM Open Access]