How do we live in the omnipresence of voice assistants?

VA-PEPR Workbook #1 and #2 -the detailed overview of the project- is published. 

Everyone is talking AI – but do you actually know what it is capable of? How do virtual assistants and…

Research by the VA-PEPR team points to an ever-closer interrelation of the design of policies and services for everyday use…

“Vision Emmen 2033” – Together with the people from the municipality of Emmen, we are looking to a possible future

The new “Überblick” prototype developed by the project team led by Michael Shorter and Melanie Rickenmann can do so much…

Paper presented at the IASDR 2023 Conference: Life-Changing Design in Milan, Italy

As part of the London Design Festival, VA-PEPR participated in the Digital Design Weekend 23

Paper presented at the 24th International CINet Conference Conference in September 2023 in Linz, Austria

Paper presented at the 24th International CINet Conference Conference in September 2023 in Linz, Austria

Exploring the potential and challenges of voice interfaces

Workshop sull’utilizzo di assistenti vocali in casa propria. Ti invitiamo a partecipare!

Giving Form to the Invisible: Can we make in-home network data traffic tangible to users?

Money Talks is an installation that surfaces our power and financial relationships with voice driven AI services.

Paper accepted for the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Northumbria University hosted the 5th project retreat in Anstruther, Scotland

Short paper accepted for the ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Workshop

Study presented at the 16th International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions, in Venice, Italy

Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously: Towards A Research Agenda and New Practice

Journal article published in Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

VA-PEPR featured in the HR-Profi magazine: Virtuelle Assistenten: Freund oder Feind im Homeoffice?

Journal article published in i-com

Journal article published in i-com

What would a possible de-centralised future of voice assistants look like?

The first Science Café took place at SUPSI (University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland) in Mendrisio

A brief summary of the results of ethnographic phase can be found here

Study presented at Mensch und Computer 2022 Conference, in Darmstadt, Germany

Two research articles presented at the Ethicomp 2022 Conference in Finland

Paper presented at the 16th International Conference of Knowledge Management in Organisations 2022 in Hagen, Germany

Results of the speculative design workshops presented by Dr. Mike Shorter and the team

Dr. Jens O. Meissner and the team participated at the EURAM 2022 Conference in Winterthur, Switzerland 

VA-PEPR contributed to the re:publica 22 with a Speculative Design Workshop  

VA-PEPR participates in the Ethical Dilemma Café

Aurelio Todisco presented the VA-PEPR at the HSLU Learning Safari ‘Onboarding’, a 1-day programme for the new employees.

Dr. Sabine Junginger gave a talk at the 51. Fachveranstaltung organised by Netzwerk Risikomanagement in Olten on March 17, 2022.

Dr. Aysun Aytac presented the data gathering method used in the in-home studies.

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Article on Innerschweiz Online

Article in the “Tagesanzeiger” about our research project

Article in the St. Galler Tagblatt about the VA-PEPR research project

Article in the “Luzerner Zeitung”

Hochparterre talks about our research project

Fon times reports about our research project

Ein Beitrag von zentralplus

Pilatus Today

Medienmitteilung der Hochschule Luzern zu unserem Forschungsprojekt

The HSLU University Magazine interview with project leader Prof. Dr. Sabine Junginger

Article by the future lab CreaLab of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts about our research project.