James Pierce, PhD

Arca: An Inclusive, Privacy-Enhancing Smart Home Camera
Prototype-driven research into trustworthy, private, and inclusive interfaces for sensor-based AI systems.
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.
Speculative Biosensing Participatory Workbooks
Speculative designs for eliciting reflections on privacy with biosensing applications.
Frictional Design
A theory of speculative design.
Lamps Curtains Robots
A series of experimental designs and performances exploring the concept of "leaky sensor fields" and techniques for managing them.
Smart Home Security Cameras and Shifting Lines of Creepiness
Designerly investigations of smart sensors in sensitive everyday spaces.
Design Proposals for Eccentric Sensing Devices