Audrey Desjardins (she/her/hers)

Audrey Desjardins began her tenure-track appointment in the School during winter quarter 2017.

Using a critical lens, her research investigates experiences of living with technology in the home. She has spent the last several years using research-through-design, speculative design, and participatory design as approaches to investigate how  critique current visions of IoT technologies which are too often grounded in homogeneous and detached views of the home. Her current projects touch on ways to inquire and reclaim IoT data through crafting and materializing ways of living with that data. She is also interested in using first-person research methods (autobiographical design for example) to examine experiences with technology from within.

Dr. Desjardins has published her work in scholarly venues such as ACM CHI, ACM DIS, ACM C&C, and ACM CSCW. She was the assistant to the editors-in-chief for ACM Interactions from 2012 to 2016. She has served on more than ten conference program committees as an Associate Chair, including the ACM CHI, ACM DIS, ACM C&C and ACM TEI.

Before joining University of Washington, she studied in the Everyday Design Studio at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, where she obtained a PhD and Master of Arts. She also holds a bachelor degree in industrial design from University of Montreal.