Audrey Desjardins

Audrey Desjardins is an Associate Professor of Interaction Design at the University of Washington’s School of Art + Art History + Design. She also holds adjunct positions in Human Centered Design and Engineering and Digital Arts and Experimental Media. Her research critically examines how technologies are integrated into domestic spaces, focusing on IoT systems and data transparency. She employs speculative design, participatory methods, and first-person research approaches to challenge homogenized visions of smart homes. Her work has been published in top venues like ACM CHI, DIS, and CSCW.

Desjardins earned a PhD and MA from Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts + Technology and a BA in Industrial Design from Université de Montréal. She previously worked as a research assistant at SFU’s Everyday Design Studio and as an industrial designer at Claude Mauffette Design Industriel.

Her current projects include Studio Tilt, a design research studio exploring human-object interactions, and the Data Epics initiative materializing home IoT data through literary narratives. She has received grants from NSF and Mozilla, and her work has been exhibited internationally. Key awards include a CHI 2019 honorable mention and a Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Arts (2019-2020).

• Key Research Themes: IoT critique, domestic technology, data visualization, speculative artifacts, participatory design
• Notable Projects: Voices and Voids (voice data performance), (In)Visible Data (home IoT engagement), Data Imaginaries (art exhibition)
• Service: Technical Program Chair for ACM DIS 2020, Associate Chair for multiple CHI/DIS conferences, Co-Guest Editor for TOCHI’s First-Person Research issue