An up-to-date list of publications is always available on Google Scholar. Whenever possible, I publish my research open-access.
⭐ Featured RESEARCH! ⭐
Papers included in my PhD Thesis!
[Download Felt Ethics] Rachael Garrett, Kristina Popova, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Thorhildur Asgeirsdottir, Airi Lampinen, and Kristina Höök. 2023. Felt Ethics: Cultivating Ethical Sensibility in Design Practice. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–15.
[Download Misalignments] Rachael Garrett & Kat Hawkins, Patrick Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Höök, and Steve Benford. 2025. In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages.
[Download Friction] Rachael Garrett, Patrick Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Kat Hawkins, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Höök, and Steve Benford. 2025. Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages.
[Download Transformations] Joseph La Delfa & Rachael Garrett, Airi Lampinen, and Kristina Höök. 2024. Articulating Mechanical Sympathy for Somaesthetic Human-Machine Relations. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3336–3353.
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Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Whatley, Marsh, Benford, Garrett, Tennent, & Castle-Green. (2026). Touch, Agency and the Interplay between Dance, Disability and Robotics. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2026.2635231
Benford, Garrett, Li, Tennent, Núñez-Pacheco, Kucukyilmaz, Tsaknaki, Höök, Caleb-Solly, Marshall, Schneiders, Popova, and Afana. 2025. Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 32, 4, Article 37 (August 2025), 34 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3723875
Karpashevich, Sanches, Garrett, Luft, Cotton, Tsaknaki, and Höök. 2022. Touching Our Breathing through Shape-Change: Monster, Organic Other, or Twisted Mirror. ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact. 29, 3, Article 22 (February 2022), 40 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3490498
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
Garrett, Brundell, Castle-Green, Hawkins, Tennent, Zhou, Lampinen, Höök, and Benford. 2025. Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3706598.3714123
Garrett & Hawkins, Brundell, Castle-Green, Tennent, Zhou, Lampinen, Höök, and Benford. 2025. In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25), April 26-May 1, 2025, Yokohama, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 18 pages. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706598.3713632
Blanco Cardozo, Garrett, Samuelsson-Gamboa, Haresamudram, Lisy, Rogg, and Núñez-Pacheco. 2025. Identifying Critical Points of Departure for the Design of Self-Fashioning Technologies. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 119, 1–16. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714175
Benford, Schneiders, Avila, Caleb-Solly, Brundell, Castle-Green, Zhou, Garrett, Höök, Whatley, Marsh, and Tennent. 2025. Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’25). IEEE Press, 429–438. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3721488.3721543
Benford, Garrett, Schneiders, Tennent, Chamberlain, Avila, Brundell, and Castle-Green. 2024, October. How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. In 16th International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 1-10). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3525-2_6
La Delfa & Garrett, Lampinen, and Höök. 2024. Articulating Mechanical Sympathy for Somaesthetic Human-Machine Relations. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3336–3353. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661514
La Delfa, Garrett, Lampinen, and Höök. 2024. How to Train Your Drone: Exploring the umwelt as a design metaphor for human-drone interaction. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2987–3001. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3660737
Sondoqah, Ben Abdesslem, Popova, Mcgregor, La Delfa, Garrett, Lampinen, Mottola, and Höök. 2024. Shaping and Being Shaped by Drones: Programming in Perception-Action Loops. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2926–2945. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.3661636
Garrett, Popova, Núñez-Pacheco, Asgeirsdottir, Lampinen, and Höök. 2023. Felt Ethics: Cultivating Ethical Sensibility in Design Practice. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 1, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580875
Popova, Garrett, Núñez-Pacheco, Lampinen, and Höök. 2022. Vulnerability as an ethical stance in soma design processes. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 178, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501994
Other Publications
La Delfa, Garrett, Jarvis, Luke, Lampinen, and Höök. 2025. Demonstrating How To Train Your Drone. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’25). IEEE Press, 1788–1790. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3721488.3721769
Garrett, Kisić-Merino, Núñez-Pacheco, Sanches, and Höök. 2024. Five Political Provocations for Soma Design: A Relational Perspective on Emotion and Politics. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium (HttF ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 30, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3686169.3686213
Garrett. 2024. Felt Ethics: Reimagining Ethics in Human-Technology Relations. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 51–54. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3665124
Núñez-Pacheco, Mascha Beuthel, Garrett, Tsaknaki, and Koulidou. 2024. Designing [Im]Material Inventories of Nomadic Belongings. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 401–404. https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3658380
Sondoqah, Ben Abdesslem, Popova, McGregor, La Delfa, Garrett, Lampinen, Mottola, and Höök. 2024. Programming Human-Drone Interactions: Lessons from the Drone Arena Challenge. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Micro Aerial Vehicle Networks, Systems, and Applications (DroNet ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 49–54. https://doi.org/10.1145/3661810.3663471
Marshall, Tennent, Li, Núñez Pacheco, Garrett, Tsaknaki, Höök, Caleb-Solly, and Benford. 2023. Collision Design. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 411, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3582734
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