****** For an always updated list of publications visit my Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=W0WziQcAAAAJ&view_op=listworks&sortby=pubdate **** There you can also download most of my publications. If you want to read a publication and you cannot find it online, you can contact me at: vats@itu.dk

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PhD Dissertation

Tsaknaki, V. (2017). Making Preciousness: Interaction Design Through Studio Crafts. PhD Dissertation. KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Link)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

  • Pavel Karpashevich, Pedro Sanches, Rachael Garrett, Yoav Luft, Kelsey Cotton, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Kristina Höök. 2022. Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror.  ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29, 3, Article 22 (June 2022), 40 pages. (ACM TOCHI)

  •   Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Karey Helms, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, and Marianela Ciolfi Felice. 2021. “Vibrant Wearables”: Material Encounters with the Body as a Soft System. Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, 9:2, 142-163, Special Issue on Soft Systems. Taylor & Francis

  • Anna Ståhl, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Madeline Balaam. 2021. Validity and Rigour in Soma Design-Sketching with the Soma. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 28, 6, Article 38 (December 2021), 36 pages. (ACM TOCHI)

  • Kristina Höök, Steve Benford, Paul Tennent, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Miquel Alfaras, Juan Martinez Avila, Christine Li, Joseph Marshall, Claudia Daudén Roquet, Pedro Sanches, Anna Ståhl, Muhammad Umair, Charles Windlin, and Feng Zhou. 2021. Unpacking Non-Dualistic Design: The Soma Design Case. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 28, 6, Article 40 (November 2021), 36 pages. (ACM TOCHI)

Peer-reviewed Conference Articles

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Pedro Sanches, Tom Jenkins, Noura Howell, Laurens Boer, and Afroditi Bitzouni. 2022. Fabulating Biodata Futures for Living and Knowing Together. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1878–1892

  • Pedro Sanches, Noura Howell, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Tom Jenkins, and Karey
Helms. 2022. Diffraction-in-action: Designerly Explorations of Agential Realism Through Lived Data. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)

  • Karin Ryding, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, and Vasiliki Tsaknaki. 2021. Sensing Places: Making Room for More-Than-Human Encounters in the City. Proceedings of Politics of the machines - Rogue Research 2021 (POM 2021)

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki. 2021. The Breathing Wings: An Autobiographical Soma Design Exploration of Touch Qualities through Shape-Change Materials. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Stina Hasse Jørgensen, Lena Kühn, Karin Ryding, Mai Hartmann, Maria Foverskov, Jonas Fritsch. 2021. Breathing Commons: Affective and Somatic Relations Between Self and Others. In 9th Nordes Design Research Conference

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Kelsey Cotton, Pavel Karpashevich, and Pedro Sanches. 2021. “Feeling the sensor feeling you”: A soma design exploration on sensing non-habitual breathing. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA

  • Paul Tennent, Kristina Höök, Steve Benford, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Anna Ståhl, Claudia Dauden Roquet, Charles Windlin, Pedro Sanches, Joe Marshall, Christine Li, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Miquel Alfaras, Muhammad Umair, and Feng Zhou. 2021. Articulating Soma Experiences using Trajectories. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)

  • Kelsey Cotton, Pedro Sanches, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Pavel Karpashevich, "The Body Electric: A NIME designed through and with the somatic experience of singing". 2021. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME’21). Shanghai, China

  •  Pedro Sanches, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Asreen Rostami, and Barry Brown. 2020. Under Surveillance: Technology Practices of those Monitored by the State. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–13

  • Miquel Alfaras, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Pedro Sanches, Charles Windlin, Muhammad Umair, Corina Sas, and Kristina Höök. 2020. From Biodata to Somadata. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–14

  • Paul Tennent, Joe Marshall, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Charles Windlin, Kristina Höök, and Miquel Alfaras. 2020. Soma Design and Sensory Misalignment. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1–12. (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)

  • Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Pavel Karpashevich, Charles Windlin, Niklas Valenti, Kristina Höök, Andrew McPherson, and Steve Benford. 2020. Soma Design for NIME. In Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME’20). Birmingham

  • Kristina Höök, Sara Eriksson, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Anna Ståhl. 2019. Soma Design and Politics of the Body. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium 2019 (HTTF 2019). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–8

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Madeline Balaam, Anna Ståhl, Pedro Sanches, Charles Windlin, Pavel Karpashevich, and Kristina Höök. 2019. Teaching Soma Design. In Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1237–1249. (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki and Ludvig Elblaus. 2019. A Wearable Nebula Material Investigations of Implicit Interaction. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 625–633 

  • Charles Windlin, Anna Ståhl, Pedro Sanches, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Pavel Karpashevich, Madeline Balaam, and Kristina Höök. 2019. Soma Bits: Mediating technology to orchestrate bodily experiences. In Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Research Through Design - RTD ’19

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Ylva Fernaeus, Emma Rapp, and Jordi Solsona Belenguer. 2017. Articulating Challenges of Hybrid Crafting for the Case of Interactive Silversmith Practice. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1187–1200

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki and Ylva Fernaeus. 2017. On the Surface of Things : Experiential Properties of the Use of Craft Materials on Interactive Artefacts. In International Conference 2017 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG ’17)

  • Barry Brown, Julian Bleecker, Marco D'Adamo, Pedro Ferreira, Joakim Formo, Mareike Gloss, Maria Holm, Kristina Höök, Eva-Carin Banka Johnson, Emil Kaburuan, Anna Karlsson, Elsa Kosmack-Vaara, Jarmo Laaksolahti, Airi Lampinen, Lucian Leahu, Vincent Lewandowski, Donald McMillan, Anders Mellbratt, Johanna Mercurio, Cristian Norlin, Nicolas Nova, Stefania Pizza, Asreen Rostami, Mårten Sundquist, Konrad Tollmar, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Jinyi Wang, Charles Windlin, and Mikael Ydholm. 2016. The IKEA Catalogue: Design Fiction in Academic and Industrial Collaborations. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Supporting Group Work (GROUP '16), 335-344

  • Anna Vallgårda, Laurens Boer, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Dag Svanæs. 2016. Material Programming: a Design Practice for Computational Composites. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 46, 1–10

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki and Ylva Fernaeus. 2016. Expanding on Wabi-Sabi as a Design Resource in HCI. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 5970–5983

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Ylva Fernaeus, and Martin Jonsson. 2015. Precious Materials of Interaction: Exploring Interactive Accessories as Jewellery Items. In Nordes. No. 6. Nordes–Nordic Design Research

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Ylva Fernaeus, and Mischa Schaub. 2014. Leather as a material for crafting interactive and physical artifacts. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems (DIS '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 5–14. (Best Paper Honorable Mention Award)

Peer-reviewed Short Papers (workshops, posters, work-in-progress, demos etc)

  • Matthew L. Lee-Smith, Jesse J. Benjamin, Audrey Desjardins, Mathias Funk, William Odom, Doenja Oogjes, Young-Woo Park, James Pierce, Pedro Sanches, and Vasiliki Tsaknaki. 2023. Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5 pages

  • Lara Reime, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Joo Young Park, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Deepika Yadav, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Sarah Homewood. 2022. Speculations on Feminist Reproductive Health Technologies. In Proceedings of the 12th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Lara Reime, Marisa Cohn, and Tania Pérez-Bustos. 2022. Materializing Bodily Relations to Data Worlds through Knotting. Workshop at the Design Research Society Conference (DRS’22). Bilbao, Spain

  • Caroline Claisse, Muhammad Umair, Abigail Durrant, Charles Windlin, Pavel Karpashevich, Kristina Höök, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Pedro Sanches, and Corina Sas. 2022. Tangible Interaction for Supporting Well-being. In CHI ’22: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 30 - May 6, 2022, New Orleans, LA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages

  • Cristian Bogdan, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Charles Windlin, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, Ozgun Kilic Afsar, Sara Eriksson, Ylva Fernaeus, and Pedro Sanches. 2020. Programming for Moving Bodies. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society(NordiCHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 132, 1–3

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Tom Jenkins, Laurens Boer, Sarah Homewood, Noura Howell, and Pedro Sanches. 2020. Challenges and Opportunities for Designing with Biodata as Material. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (NordiCHI '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 122, 1-3

  • William Odom, Siân Lindley, Larissa Pschetz, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Anna Vallgårda, Mikael Wiberg, and Daisy Yoo. 2018. Time, Temporality, and Slowness: Future Directions for Design Research. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '18 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 383–386

  • Tom Jenkins, Karey Helms, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Ludvig Elblaus, and Nicolai Brodersen Hansen. 2018. Sociomateriality: Infrastructuring and Appropriation of Artifacts. In Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 724–727

  • Anna Vallgårda, Laurens Boer, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Dag Svanaes. 2016. Material Programming: A New Interaction Design Practice. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '16 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 149–152

  • Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Marisa Cohn, Laurens Boer, Ylva Fernaeus, and Anna Vallgårda. 2016. Things Fall Apart: Unpacking the Temporalities of Impermanence for HCI. In Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '16). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 141, 1–3

  • Ludvig Elblaus, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Vincent Lewandowski, and Roberto Bresin. 2015. Nebula: An Interactive Garment Designed for Functional Aesthetics. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '15). ACM: Seoul, Republic of Korea, 275-278

  • Ylva Fernaeus, Martin Murer, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, and Jordi Solsona Belenguer. 2014. Handcrafting Electronic Accessories Using 'Raw' Materials. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI '14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 369–372

  • Tsaknaki, V., & Fernaeus, Y. (2013). Exploring Wearable Music Players with Focus on Subculture and Style. Demo and poster presented at the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction. Barcelona, Spain. TEI’13. At ResearchGate

  • Chorianopoulos, K., & Tsaknaki, V. (2010). CELL: Connecting Everyday Life in an archipeLago. In proceedings of workshop Mind the Gap — Towards Seamless Remote Social Interaction, AVI 2010

Book Chapters

  • Tsaknaki, V. 2021. Intersection of Interaction Design, Crafting and Materiality: Three Case Studies of Digital Craftsmanship. ICS MATERIALS. INTERACTIVE, CONNECTED, AND SMART MATERIALS, edited by Valentina Rognoli and Venere Ferraro. FrancoAngeli, ISBN-13: 9788835115649

  • Tsaknaki, V. 2020. Reflections on the Value of Imperfection in Crafts Through the Japanese Philosophy of wabi-sabi. In “The Aesthetics of Imperfection in Music and the Arts: Spontaneity, Flaws and the Unfinished”, edited by Lara Pearson and Andy Hamilton. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020, 36-43

Other Publications Including Invited Articles

  • Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, and Vasiliki Tsaknaki, (2022). Design and Somatic Sensibilities. Diseña, (20), Introduction to Special Issue Journal

  • Vallgårda, A., Boer, L., Tsaknaki, V., & Svanæs, D. (2017). Material programming. ACM Interactions 24, 3 (April 2017), 36-41

  • Instant Journal: Exploring What the Future Holds for Practice-based PhDs. (2016). Created at PhD by Design Satellite Session. Design Research Society conference (DRS). Issue Three

  • Elblaus, L., Tsaknaki, V., et al. (16 authors). (2015). Nebula Garment Featured at Demo Hour. ACM Interactions September/ October 2015 issue

  • Tsaknaki, V., & Thurneysen, P. (2012). Several Wiser Steps: The motoco Trip. Upstream: Prospects through Design. Annual Publication. Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Institut HyperWerk, (p.92-95), Basel 2012. (download publication)

  • Metabolism: The Textured City. (2010). Project Catalogue. Kunsthochschule Berlin Weissensee. Berlin, Germany. (download catalogue)

  • Köln International School of Design (KISD). (2009). One sq. Meter of Fabric Means Clothing: Isolation Garment.  KISD Annual Report: Design and Change. Köln, Germany. (see catalogue)