Sabrina is a Design, Research, and Education Professional with an Interest in the Ethics of Technology Design.
Motivation
While I love well-designed things, I also think critically of new technology entering our lives. Growing up without computing technologies, yet also experiencing and embracing their introduction, I see the good of both worlds. I am looking forward to contributing to a future of technological innovation concerned with human values and histories.
Expertise
Design, HCI & UX Research
User Research
Ethnographic Studies
Interaction & Product Design
Ethics of Designing Technology
Human-Technology Relations
Communicating, Writing & Editing
Technological Mediation
Research through Design
Speculative Design
Human-Animal Interactions
Background
Sabrina works in Research and Innovation Partnership Development at the University of British Columbia (UBC). She helps stimulate innovation in the domain digital technology and connects partners in industry, not-for-profit, or community groups and UBC researchers. She has been working in interaction design/ HCI/ UX research and education for over a decade. Sabrina holds a graduate degree in Information Science, a Master of Arts in Strategic Design, and a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction and Design. She has helped build and manage one of the first and most successful interaction design undergraduate programs in Germany and worked in developing curricula and research programs. She is German-Canadian and resides in Vancouver, BC Canada but travels to Europe often.
Read more about Sabrina and view her CV on the About page.
Selected Research Projects
Selected Writings
Recent News & Events
Paper accepted at AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication
(Journal Paper coming soon)
I am happy to announce that our journal paper “The Widening Rift between Aesthetics and Ethics in the Design of Computational Things“ was accepted for publication in the Springer journal AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture and Communication. This paper is co-authored with Johan Redström and Heather Wiltse and documents part of my work as a postdoc at the Umeå Institute of Design.
Presenter at the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference 2020
(Virtual Conference; Presenter)
I will attend the Philosophy of Human-Technology Relations Conference 2020 to present our paper submission titled: “Speculating on living with and designing artificial agents.” This submission was co-written by Sabrina Hauser, Johan Redström, and Heather Wiltse from the Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden. The PHTR conference 2020 will be held virtually, it was supposed to be held at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands on November 5th - 7th, 2020.
Pictorials Chair at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2020
(Virtual Conference; Pictorials Program Chair)
I am virtually attending the ACM Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2020. DIS 2020 was supposed to be held at TU/e in Eindhoven, The Netherlands on July 6th - 20th, 2020.
I served as Pictorials Program Chair again this year.
Presenter and Recipient of a Best Paper Award at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2020
(Virtual Conference; Presenter; Best Paper Award Recipient)
I am virtually attending the ACM CHI 2020 Conference. CHI 2020 was supposed to be held in Hawai”i, US. Our paper titled: “Designing and Evaluating Calmer, a Device for Simulating Maternal Skin-to-Skin Holding for Premature Infants.” The paper also received a best paper award for being among the top 1% of submissions. The paper can be viewed here: [Link] [PDF]. I recorded a Video Presentation of the paper for the virtual conference. There is also a project website and a news video about Calmer.