Book chapters
Kuusk, Kristi; Valle Noronha, Julia; Tomico, Oscar (2023). Digital Technology Reshaping Clothing and Textile Practice Towards Sustainability. In: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles Bloomsbury. (Textile Futures). (forthcoming)
Nimkulrat, Nithikul; Demir, Arife Dila (2023). Promoting Wellbeing through E-Textiles. In: Bloomsbury Enyclopedia of World Textiles. Vol. 10. (Textile Futures). (forthcoming)
Journal articles
Oktay, Nesli Hazal (2024). Creating Intimate Places for Close by Heart but Physically Apart People through Remote Embodiments. Research in Arts and Education Journal, 2024(1), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142452
Oktay, Nesli Hazal (2023). Dissolving distances: Designing Close-to-body Experiences for Remote Settings. HUB – Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22501/hub.2272473
Demir, Arife Dila; Kuusk, Kristi; Nimkulrat, Nithikul (2022). “Squeaky/Pain: Articulating the Felt Experience of Pain for Somaesthetic Interactions”. Temes de Disseny, 2022, Num. 38, pp. 162-178, https://doi.org/10.46467/TdD38.2022.162-178.
Demir, Arife Dila, Nimkulrat, Nithikul, & Kuusk, Kristi (2022). ‘Squeaky/Pain’: Cultivating Disturbing Experiences and Perspective Transition for Somaesthetic Interactions. Diseña, (20), Article.2. Retrieved from http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/article/view/33007
Neves, Inês Rodrigues; Reyes, Claudia Diaz; Pachi, Ismini; Demir, Arife Dila; Kuusk, Kristi (2021). Creative exchange through joint responsibility: designing performances in multidisciplinary teams in the educational context. Research in Arts and Education, 1/2021.
Kubinyi, Eva Liisa; Naydenova, Vera; Kuusk, Kristi (2021). Children and design students practicing playful co-creation in a youth creativity lab. Research in Arts and Education, 1/2021.
Kuusk, Kristi; Tajadura-Jiménez, Ana; Väljamäe, Aleksander (2020). A transdisciplinary collaborative journey leading to sensorial clothing. CoDesign – International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts. DOI: 10.1080/15710882.2020.1833934. Link
Tajadura-Jiménez, Ana; Väljamäe, Aleksander; Kuusk, Kristi (2020). Altering One’s Body-perception Through E-Textiles and Haptic Metaphors. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00007. Link
Conference proceedings
Peer-reviewed papers
Hamid, Azeem; Hameed, Umar; Kuusk, Kristi (2024). Engaging Public Spaces: Designing for a playful live community experience. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI Adjunct 2024), October 13–16, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685422 (upcoming).
Hamid, Azeem (2024). Participation in public spaces of Tallinn. In Proceedings of Development of public spaces: urban, rural and institutional in the Heritage in the Service of Resilient Communities, October 1-5, 2024, Viljandi, Estonia. University of Tartu Viljandi Culture Academy. (upcoming)
Demir, Arife Dila; Núñez-Pacheco, Claudia (2024). Autosomatographical Narratives: Towards the Articulation of Felt Accounts of Pain for Somaesthetic Design. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems in the ACM Digital Library (DIS’2024). (upcoming)
Madaghiele, Vincenzo; Demir, Arife Dila (2024). Pain Creature: interdisciplinary collaboration in the design of an embodied textile instrument. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expressions (NIME 2024). (upcoming)
Demir, Arife Dila*; Oktay, Nesli Hazal*; Kuusk, Kristi (2023). Cultivating and Eliciting Felt Experiences for Design Use: Physical Manifestations of Abstract Bodily Experiences. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Special Interest Group: Experiential Knowledge, EKSIG 2023. *joint first authors (forthcoming)
Oktay, Nesli Hazal; Wilde, Danielle; Kuusk, Kristi (2023). Conversations with the Body of the Other: A Three-step Dialogical Process. In Proceedings of the Nordic Design Research Society, NORDES 2023. (forthcoming)
Oktay, Nesli Hazal (2022). Design placebos for the impossibility of empathy in videotelephony, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.598
Zhiglova, Yulia; Kuusk, Kristi; Lamas, David; Smorgun, Ilja; Seitlinger, Paul (2021). Wearable Confidence — Concept and Prototype Design. Human-Computer-Interaction – INTERACT 2021: 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, August 30 – September 3, 2021. Ed. Ardito, C., Lanzilotti, R., Malizia, A., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Desolda, G., Inkpen, K. Springer, Cham, 328−331. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12936). DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_31.
Uğur Yavuz, Seçil; Kuusk, Kristi; Honauer, Michaela (2021). Designing somatic play for digital natives through a body-centric design process. DESIGN CULTURE (OF) ARTIFICIAL, 2: Cumulus Roma 2021. Ed. Loredana Di Lucchio, Lorenzo Imbesi, Angela Giambattista, Viktor Malakuczi. Roma: Cumulus, 264−278. (Design Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021, Volume #2; 2). Link
Honauer, Michaela; Yavuz, Secil Ugur; Kuusk, Kristi (2020). WORM-E: An Interactive Toy Enriching Children’s Bodily and Social Play. In: DIS 2020 proceedings and companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. DIS 2020: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, July 6-20, 2020, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, DIS 2020 will be a virtual conference. ACM. DOI: 10.1145/3393914.3395814. Link
Demir, Arife Dila (2020). AURA: Altering Self-Perception Through Interactive Light Emitting Textiles. Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society. ACM Digital Library, 1−3. DOI: 10.1145/3419249.3421234.
Kuusk, Kristi; Tajadura-Jiménez, Ana; Väljamäe, Aleksander (2019). Magic Lining: Crafting Multidisciplinary Experiential Knowledge by Changing Wearer’s Body-Perception through Vibrotactile Clothing. Conference Proceedings of International Conference 2019 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. Ed. Nithikul Nimkulrat, Kristi Kuusk, Julia Valle Noronha, Camilla Groth and Oscar Tomico. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Arts, 186−200. Link
Workshop publications
Arife Dila Demir, Joo Young Park, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, and Marianela Ciolfi Felice (2023). Designing with the Body in Unhabitual Movements using Visual and Textual Elicitation Tools. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3571845
Popova, Kristina; Park, Jooyoung; Demir, Arife Dila (2023). Conquering the silence, exploring the uncomfortable together: A collective exploration of discomfort as a design resource. The 10th Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) Conference. June 12-14, Sweden.
Scholz, Barbro; Honauer, Michaela; Kuusk, Kristi; Veske, Paula; Ugur Yavuz, Seçil (2022). Designing wearable interactions through playful on-body explorations. Proceedings of ETIS 2022, 3328: 5th European Tangible Interaction Studio Toulouse, France, November 7-10, 2022.. Ed. Valérie Maquil. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.
Seçil Uğur Yavuz, Paula Veske , Barbro Scholz, Michaela Honauer and Kristi Kuusk (2021). Design for Playfulness with Interactive Soft Materials. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), https://10.1145/3430524.3442702
Others
Kuusk, Kristi; Oktay, Nesli Hazal; Demir, Arife Dila (2022). Sensorial Design: Feel, Move, Interact! In Design Journal Leida 1(1). https://leida.artun.ee/en/issues/technocriticism/sensorial-design-feel-move-interact
Exhibitions
Kuusk, Kristi; Michaela Honauer; Secil Ugur. WORTH II Exhibition. Project: Treesense. Milan Design Week, April 2023
Kuusk, Kristi. ICIDS STARTS Exhibition. Project: Magic Lining. TLU Estonia, 7-10-12-2021
Kuusk, Kristi. Lapse asi. EKA tudengite disain lastele. Project: Textales, Bedtime Stories. EKA Gallery, October-November 2022
Kuusk, Kristi. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations. Project: ‘Magic Lining’. Gallery Artifex, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, April-May 2022
Demir, Arife Dila. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations. Project: ‘SQUEAKY/PAIN’. Gallery Artifex, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, April-May 2022
Kuusk, Kristi. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations. Project: ‘Magic Lining’. EKA Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia, October-November 2021
Demir, Arife Dila. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations. Project: ‘SQUEAKY/PAIN’. EKA Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia, October-November 2021
Sensorial Design Group Exhibition. Disainiöö. Tallinn, Estonia, September 2021
Presentations
Oktay, Nesli Hazal. First Peer Review Event Presentation of the project the Intimacy with Far-away Bodies Reviewers: Oscar Tomico and Verena Fuchsberger. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, February 2022.
Demir, Arife Dila. Third Peer Review Event Presentation of the project the Pain Creature. Reviewers: Claudia Núñez-Pacheco and Michaela Honauer. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, February 2022.
Oktay, Nesli Hazal. First Peer Review Event Presentation of the project the Empathic Placebos Reviewers: Oscar Tomico and Kristina Andersen. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2021.
Demir, Arife Dila. Caring Companion: Materializing Bodily Experiences for Somaesthetic Interactions. Conference presentation in Futurescan5: Conscious Communities. Online, September 2022
Demir, Arife Dila. Second Peer Review Event Presentation of the project the Caring Companion. Reviewers: Claudia Núñez-Pacheco and Vasiliki Tsakniki. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2022
Oktay, Nesli Hazal. “Embodying thinking and feeling in action: The case of making design placebos”. Presentation in the joint Doctoral School Conference at Estonian Music and Theather Academy, Tallinn, Estonia, February 2022
Demir, Arife Dila. First Peer Review Event Presentation of the project ‘SQUEAKY/PAIN’. Reviewers: Danielle Wilde and Claudia Núñez-Pacheco. Online, April 2021
Demir, Arife Dila. Extended Bodies: Altering Body-Perception through Movement-Based Textile Interactions. NordiCHI’20. Online, October 2020
Demo Days
Demir, A. D., Kohava, M. Odyssey for One. STARTS.EE art + science residency. eˉlektron art, Tallinn, Estonia, December 2020 Link
Oktay, Nesli Hazal. “Gazing for Meaning”. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2021. (Tallinn, Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives as part of STARTS.EE Exhibition 2021) Tallinn, December 2021.