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Peer reviewed Journal articles, Conference papers and Book Chapters
- Light, A. (in press) Designing the Economics of the Sharing Economy: Towards Sustainable Management. Handbook of the Sharing Economy, edited by Russell Belk, Giana Eckhardt and Fleura Bardhi, Edward Elgar.
- Gabriela Avram, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Stefano De Paoli, Ann Light, Peter Lyle & Maurizio Teli (2019), Introduction to the Special Issue on Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring, Co-Design, 185-191
- Light, A. and Seravalli, A. (2019) The Breakdown of the Municipality as Caring Platform: Lessons for Co-Design and Co-Learning in the Age of Platform Capitalism, Co-Design, 192-211
- Light, Ann and Miskelly, Clodagh. 2019. “Platforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economy”. JCSCW, Summer 2019
- Ann Light (2019) Design and Social Innovation at the Margins: Finding and Making Cultures of Plurality, J. Design and Culture
- Light, A. and Akama, Y. (2019) The Nature of ‘Obligation’ in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and Care (eds) Fisher, T. and Gamman, L. Tricky Design: ethics through things. London: Bloomsbury
- Reitsma, L, Light A., Zaman, Tariq and Rogers, P. (2019) Facilitating Dialogical Spaces as a Foundation for Respectful Design in co-creative encounters with indigenous communities, European Academy of Design Conference 2019.
- Light, A. (2019) The Détente Model of Managing Divergent Values in the Maker Sphere, book chapter in (eds) Jeremy Hunzinger and Andrew Schrock Making Our World: the Hacker and Maker Movements in Context, New York: Peter Lang
- Light, A. (2018) Performing Interaction Design with Judith Butler, book chapter in (eds) Bardzell, J., Bardzell, S. and Blythe, M. Critical Theory and Interaction Design, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 429-446
- Ann Light (2018) Ideas of Autonomia: Buzzwords, Borderlands and Research through Design in special issue on Autonomía: Design strategies for enabling design process, SDRJ, Vol 11, No 2 147-153 Also: Light, Ann. (2018) Research Through Design and Uncertain Futures, Medium: https://medium.com/the-ascendency-of-process-over-outcome-considering/research-through-design-rtd-and-uncertain-futures-2f979d682ef5
- Ann Light (2018) Writing PD: Accounting for Socially-Engaged Research. Proc. PDC’18
- Yoko Akama and Ann Light (2018) Practices of Readiness: Punctuation, Poise and the Contingencies of Participatory Design, Proc. PDC’18
- Yoko Akama, Elisenda Ardevol, Deborah Lanzeni, Ann Light, Katherine Moline, Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo (2018) Strategies for Disruption, in (eds Yoko Akama, Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo) Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology, Bloomsbury,
- Austin Toombs, Colin M. Gray, Guoyang Zhou and Ann Light (2018) Appropriated or Inauthentic Care in Gig-Economy Platforms: A Psycho-linguistic Analysis of Uber and Lyft. EA CHI’18.
- Alicia Smedberg and Ann Light (2018) Autonomy and control in Orkney: An inquiry into the social benefits of community wind energy. in Sumpf, P. and Büscher, C. (eds.) SHAPE ENERGY Research Design Challenge: Control, change and capacity-building in energy systems. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.
- Ann Light (2018) The place in our hands: the grassroots making of cultural heritage, in Stuedahl, D. and Vestergaard, V. (eds.) 2018. Media innovations and design in cultural institutions, NORDICOM, Gothenborg
- Vera Khovanskaya, Lynn Dombrowski, Ellie Harmon, Matthias Korn, Ann Light, Michael Stewart and Amy Voida (2018) Designing Against the Status Quo, Community + Culture Forum, interactions, March-April 2018,
- Ann Light and Christina Welch (2018) The cultural and spiritual aspects of growing edible plants: testing for meaningfulness in Leeds, UK, in (eds) Joshua Zeunert and Tim Waterman, Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food, Routledge
- Ann Light (2018) Introduction / Who are We to Make Change? In Taking Action in a Changing World (Light, Ferrario, Frauenberger, Preece, Strohmeier) interactions January-February 2018, p34-45 (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3169128)
- Ann Light (2017) What are you Reading? Ann Light, interactions, July-August 2017, p14-15
- Julian Brigstocke, Elona Hoover, Marie K. Harder, Paula Graham, Sofia De Sousa, Andy Dearden, Ann Light, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Katerina Alexiou, Gemma Burford, Justine Gaubert, Colin Foskett (2017) Implicit values: Uncounted legacies, In: FACER, Keri and PAHL, Kate, (eds.) Valuing interdisciplinary collaborative research: Beyond impact. Bristol, Policy Press, 65-83.
- Light, A. and Boys, J. (2017) Collaborating across Difference: Learning At/With/From The Edges Eds. Elizabeth DiSalvo, Jason Yip, Elizabeth Bonsignore, and Carl DiSalvo. Participatory Design for Learning. London: Routledge.
- Light, A., Powell, A. and Shklovski, I. (2017) Design for Existential Crisis in the Anthropocene Age. C&T’17
- Smith, A. and Light, A. (2017) Cultivating sustainable developments with makerspaces, Liinc em Revista, http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/3900
- Light, A., Howland, K., Hamilton, T. and Harley, D. (2017) The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality, Proc. DIS’17
- Akama, Y., Light, A. and Bowen, S. (2017) Mindfulness and Technology: Traces of A Middle Way, Proc. DIS’17
- Light, A. and Briggs, J. (2017) Crowdfunding Platforms and the Design of Paying Publics, Proc. CHI’17
- Light, A., Shklovski, I. and Powell, A. (2017) Design for Existential Crisis. Alt-chi 17
- Clarke, R., Briggs, J. and Light, A. and Wright, P. (2016) Situated encounters with socially engaged art in community-based design. Proc. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’16).
- Light, A., Pedell, S., Robertson, T., Waycott, J., Bell, J., Durick, J. and Leong, T. W. (2016) What’s special about aging. ACM interactions, 23 (2). pp. 66-69. ISSN 0004-5411
- Light, A. (2015) Troubling Futures: can participatory design research provide a constitutive anthropology for the 21st century? Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal – IxD&A, N.26, 2015, pp. 81-94
- Light, A., Brereton, M. and Roe, P. (2015) Some Notes on the Design of World Machines, OzCHI’15
- Light, A. and Miskelly, C. (2015) Sharing Economy vs Sharing Cultures? Designing for social, economic and environmental good, IxD&A, 24, p49-62
- Light, A., Leong, T. W. and Robertson, T. (2015) Ageing Well with CSCW, ECSCW’15
- Vines, J., Clarke, R., Light, A. and Wright, P. (2015) The beginnings, middles and endings of participatory research in HCI: An introduction to the special issue on ‘perspectives on participation’ International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 74, 77-80
- Williamson, J.R., Hansen, L.K., Jacucci, G., Light, A. and Reeves, S. (2014) Understanding performative interactions in public settings, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 18 (7), 1545-1549
- Petrelli, D. and Light, A. (2014) Family Rituals and the Potential for Interaction Design: A Study of Christmas, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)
- Light, A. and Petrelli, D. (2014) The Rhythm of Christmas: Temporality, ICT Use and Design for the Idiosyncrasies of a Major Festival, ACM OzCHI 2014
- Light, A. (2014) The Allure of Provenance: Tracing Food through User-Generated Production Information, in (eds) Choi, J., Foth, M. and Hearn, G. Cook, Grow, Eat, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- Light, A. and Akama, Y. (2014) Structuring Future Social Relations: The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice, Proc. ACM PDC 2014, pp151-160
- Dearden, A., Light A. (2014) Scaling Up Co-Design: Research Projects as Design Things, Proc. ACM PDC 2014 (s)
- Reitsma, E., Light, A. and Rogers, P. (2014) Empathic Negotiations through Material Culture: Co-Designing and Making Digital Exhibits, Digital Creativity
- Light, A. (2014) Citizen Innovation: ActiveEnergy and the Quest for Sustainable Design, in (eds) Boler, M. and Ratto, M. DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA p259-268
- Light, A., Milligan, A., Bond, L., McIntosh, L. and Botten, C. (2013) High Tea at the Conviviality Café: Research Tool or Design Intervention?, 1st Research Through Design Conference, Newcastle, September 2013
- McSeveny, K., Heller, B., Light, A. and Machaczek, K. (2013) “You could, couldn’t you?” A preliminary investigation of older people’s interaction with a bespoke virtual environment using a gesture interface, J. Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 5(3), p329-348
- Light, A. and Coles-Kemp, L. (2013) Granddaughter Beware! An Intergenerational Case Study of Managing Trust Issues in the Use of Facebook, Proc. IEEE TRUST 2013
- Hill, K.J., Light, A. and Dearden, A. (2013) Meanwhile use as performance – rehearsing and performing community in temporary spaces, Proc. PINC 2013
- Light, A., Hansen, N.B., Halskov, K., Hill, K.J., Hackney, F. and Dalsgaard, P. (2013) Exploring the dynamics of ownership in community-oriented design projects, Proc. ACM C&T 2013, pp90-99.
- Light, A. and Akama, Y. (2012) The Human Touch: participatory practice and the role of facilitation in designing with communities, in Proc. ACM PDC 2012.
- Goraya H., Light A., Yates S.J. 2012. Contact Networks and the Digital Inclusion of Isolated Community Members?. in Digital Divide Yearbook 2011,. (eds.). Vartanova E and Smirnova O IAMCR: MediaMir.
- Dray, S., Light, A., Dearden, A., Evers, V., Densmore, M., Ramachandran, D., Kam, M., Marsden, G., Sambasivan, N., Smyth, T., van Gruenen, D., and Winters, N. (2012) “Human Computer Interaction for Development: Changing HCI to Change the World” book chapter in (ed) J. Jacko, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, 3rd Edn (Human Factors and Ergonomics) CRC Press. 1369 – 1394
- Petrelli, D., Bowen, S., Light, A. and Dulake, N. (2012) Digital Christmas: An Exploration of Festive Technology, Proc. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’12)
- Akama, Y and Light, A. (2012) A Candor in Reporting: Designing Dexterously for Fire Preparedness, alt-chi, Proc. CHI 2012
- Kleine, D., Light, A. and Montero, M. (2012): Signifiers of the life we value? – considering human development, technologies and Fair Trade from the perspective of the capabilities approach, Information Technology for Development, 18 (1), 42-60
- Light, A., Egglestone, P., Wakeford, T. and Rogers, J. (2011) Participant-Making: bridging the gulf between community knowledge and academic research, J. Community Informatics, 2011, 7:3.
- Light, A. (2011) Democratising Technology: Inspiring Transformation with Design, Performance and Props, Proc. CHI 2011, 2239-2242
- Light, A., Wakeford, T., Egglestone, P. and Rogers, J. (2011) Research on an Equal Footing? A UK Collaborative Inquiry into Community and Academic Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge Technology Conference 2011, Nov 2011.
- Light, A (2011) Digital interdependence and how to design for it, interactions, 18 (2), March + April 2011, ACM, New York, NY, USA
- Light, A (2011) HCI as heterodoxy: Technologies of identity and the queering of interaction with computers, Interacting with Computers, vol 23 (5), Sept 2011
- Light, A. (2011) The Politics of Representing Cultures in Ubiquitous Media – challenging national cultural norms by studying a map with Indian and British users, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol 15 (6) August 2011, 585-596
- Light, A (2011) The Power of Inference, the Ethics of Making and the Case for Digital Interdependence. Proc. Ethicomp 2011
- Wakeman, I., Light, A., Robinson, J., Chalmers, D. and Basu, A. (2011) Deploying pervasive advertising in a farmers’ market, in (eds Jörg Müller, Florian Alt and Daniel Michelis) Pervasive Advertising, Springer, 247-267
- DEARDEN, Andy, LIGHT, Ann, KANAGWA, Benjamin and RAI, Idris (2010). Getting from research to practice in M4D. In: SVENSSON, Jakob and WICANDER, Gudrun, (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on M4D Mobile Communication Technology for Development : M4D 2010, 10-11 November 2010, Kampala, Uganda. Karlstadt University, 259-262.
- DEARDEN, Andy, LIGHT, Ann, HEEKS, Richard, MARSDEN, Gary, WINTERS, Niall, TONGIA, Rahul, BEALE, Russell and KAM, Matthew (2010). Innovation everywhere : computing for 9 billion people. In: ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 : Grand Challenges in Computing Research, Edinburgh, 13-16 April 2010. (Unpublished)
- Light, A. Wakeman, I., Robinson, J., Basu, A. and Chalmers, D. (2010) Chutney and Relish: Designing to Augment the Experience of Shopping at a Farmers’ Market, Proc. OzCHI’10, Brisbane, Nov 2010, 208-215, New York, NY: ACM
- Wakeman, I., Light, A., Robinson, J., Basu, A. and Chalmers, D. (2010) Bringing the Virtual to the Farmers’ Market: Designing for Trust in Pervasive Computing Systems, Proc. Fourth IFIP Conference on Trust Management, Springer-Verlag.
- Light, A. Ladeira, I, Roberson, J, Bidwell, N, Rangaswamy, N, Sambasivan, N and Gitau, S. (2010) Gender matters: Female perspectives in ICT4D research, ICTD 2010
- Light, A. The Unit of Analysis in Understanding the Politics of Participatory Practice, PDC 2010
- Light, A. (2010) The Panopticon reaches within: how digital technology turns us inside out, Journal of Identity in the Information Society, 3:3, pp583-598
- Light, A. (2010) Bridging Global Divides with Tracking and Tracing Technology. IEEE Pervasive 9 (2), 28-36
- Simon Bowen & Ann Light, The Use of Mediating Artefacts in Design Research EASST Review Volume 29 (2010)
- Light, A., Kleine, D and Vivent, M. (2010) “Performing Charlotte: a Tool to bridge Cultures in Participatory Design” Int. J. of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, 2(1), 36-58
- Light, A. (2009) Democratising Technology: A Method, in (ed T. Inns) Designing for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings, Gower, Ashgate Publishing,
- Light, A., Simpson, G. and Weaver, L., Healey, P.G. (2009) “Geezers, Turbines, Fantasy Personas: Making the Everyday into the Future” Proc. Creativity and Cognition 2009, Berkeley, Oct 2009 – award for best paper promoting social creativity
- Light, A. and Anderson, T. (2009) “Research Project as Boundary Object: negotiating the conceptual design of a tool for International Development” Proc. ECSCW 2009: (eds Ina Wagner, Luigi Ciolfi, Hilda Tellioglu, Ellen Balka) Proceedings of the 11th European conference on computer-supported cooperative work, , 21-42. London: Springer.
- Light, A. and Wright, P.C. (2009) “The Panopticon and the Performance Arena: HCI Reaches within” Proc. INTERACT 2009, Uppsala, Aug 2009
- Light, A. (2009) ‘Negotiations in space: the impact of receiving phone calls on the move’, in (eds Ling, R. and Campbell, S.) The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices, Transaction Publishers
- THOMAS, John, DEARDEN, Andy, DRAY, Susan, LIGHT, Ann, BEST, Michael, ARKIN, Nuray, MAUNDER, Andrew, KAM, Matthew, CHETTY, Marshini, SAMBASIVAN, Nithya, BUCKHALTER, Celeste and KRISHNAN, Gaurishankar (2008). Hci for community and international development. In: CZERWINSKI, Mary and LUND, Arnie, (eds.) CHI EA ’08 : CHI ’08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. New York, ACM, 3909-3912.
- Light, A., Miskelly, C. and Thompson, S. (2008) ‘An Analysis of Building Habitat with Networked Tools’, Proc. OzCHI 2008, Cairns, Dec 2008
- Healey, P.G., White, G., Eshghi, A., Reeves, A. J. and Light, A. (2008) ‘Communication Spaces’ Computer Supported Cooperative Work,17 (2-3)
- Light, A., Weaver, L., Healey, P.G. and Simpson, G. (2008) ‘Adventures in the Not Quite Yet: using performance techniques to raise design awareness about digital networks’ Proc. DRS, Sheffield, July 2008
- Light, A. and Miskelly, C. (2008) ‘Brokering between Heads and Hearts: an analysis of designing for social change’ in Proc. DRS 2008, Sheffield, July 2008
- Dearden, A. and Light, A. (2008) Designing for e-Social Action: An Application Taxonomy, in Proc. Design Research Society 2008, Sheffield July 2008
- Dearden, A. and Light, A. (2008) On Social Function: New Language for Discussing Technology for Social Action, in Proc. DIAC 2008, California, June 2008
- Light, A. (2008) ‘Transports of Delight?: What the experience of receiving (mobile) phone calls can tell us about design’ in special issue on ‘Enchantment, Experience and Interaction Design’, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 12 (5), pp 391-400
- Light, A., Blythe, M and Reed, D. (2008) ‘Defamiliarising Design’, Design Principles and Practices 1(4) 63-72
- Blythe, M., Light, A. and O’Neill, S. (2007) ‘Untitled: emerging cultural forms in the digital age’, editors’ commentary for Culture, Creativity and Technology special issue of Human Technology http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/archives/february07.html
- Healey, P.G. and Light, A. (2007) ‘When Scoring doesn’t Matter: The aesthetics of performance in arcade games’, CoDesign 3, supp 1, 2007,Special Issue: Affective Communications in Design Challenges for Researchers
- Light, A (2006) ‘Adding Method to Meaning: a technique for exploring peoples’ experience with digital products’ in special issue on ‘User Experience’, Behaviour & Information Technology, 25 (2), pp175-187 (A)
- Cook, J. and Light, A. (2006) ‘New Patterns of Power and Participation? Designing ICT for Informal and Community Learning’, E-Learning 3(1) pp51-61.
- Light, A. (2004) ‘Designing to Persuade: the Use of Emotion in Networked Media’ in Interacting with Computers, 16, pp729-738
- Light, A. (2003) ‘Participants, Consumers and the Politics of Design: British Information Providers on the Web reconfigure the Audience’ at Towards a New Media Paradigm. EU COST A20 Conference, University of Navarra, Pamplona, June 2003.
- Light, A. (2003) ‘Audience Design: Interacting with Networked Media’, interactions special issue on ‘HCI and Mass Communication’.
- Urquhart, C., Light, A., Thomas, R., Barker, A., Yeoman, A., Cooper, J., Armstrong, C., Fenton, R., Lonsdale, R. and Spink, S. (2003) ‘Critical incident technique and explicitation interviewing in studies of information behavior’ in J. Library & Information Science Research, 25, pp63-88. (A*)
- Light, A. (2001) ‘Interactivity and User Commitment: Building Relationships through Interaction on Websites’, (ed. Blandford, A., Vanderdonckt, J. and Gray P.), People and Computers 15, London: Springer-Verlag, pp459-474.
- Light, A. and Wakeman, I. (2001) ‘Beyond the Interface: Users’ Perceptions of Interaction and Audience on Websites’ in special issue of Interacting with Computers on ‘Interfaces for the Active Web’, 13, pp325-351
- Light, A. (2001) ‘The Influence of Context on Users’ Responses to Websites’ in ISIC New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 2001
- Light, A. and Wakeman, I. (2000) ‘“My name’s Chris…”: the Effect of Producer Visibility on the Use of Interactive Websites’ Proc. OZCHI2000
- Light, A. and Rogers, Y. (1999) ‘Conversation as Publishing: the Role of News Forums on the Web’, in special issue of J. Computer-Mediated Communication on ‘Persistent Conversation’, 4(4) http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/.
- McIlhagga, M., Light, A. and Wakeman, I. (1998) ‘Design Choices for Adaptive Applications’, the Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 98), Dallas, October 1998.