Publications/outputs
- Constellations of Knowing / Not Knowing in Perinatal Care for Panel 38. Entangled Theories and Practices: Navigating Relational Ontologies In and Through Design, HCI, STS, and Philosophy of Technology. STS Italia Conference, 11-13 June 2025, Politecnico di Milano
- Drawing Maternal Machines and other Fantasies of Care. Alt-CHI paper, ACM CHI Conference 2025, Yokohama Japan
- Maternal Machines: Imaginging Experiences in Perinatal Care. Workshop at ACM CHI Conference 2025, Yokohama Japan
- More than Human Entanglements in Family Life. Paulina Yurman and Iohanna Nicenboim. June 2024. Position paper for the ACM IDC 2024 workshop Exploring Child-AI Entanglements. June 2024, TU Delft
- Design Transforms ‘23. Publication for exhibition at Lethaby Gallery, Centrail Saint Martins. Sept-Oct 2023
- Machine
Stories: finding meaning in unpredictable outcomes. 2023. Position pictorial paper for the ACM DIS 2023 workshop ‘Towards a Design (Research) Framework with Generative AI’, July 2023
- Drawing Conversations mediated by AI. Paulina Yurman and Anuradha Reddy. ACM Creativity&Cognition 2022, Venice, June 20-23, 2022.
- Venetian Drawing Conversations workshop. Paulina Yurman, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, James Pierce, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Anuradha Reddy and Matt Malpass. ACM Creativity&Cognition 2022, Venice, June, 2022.
- More than human Fluid Speculations. DRS Bilbao, 27 June-1 July, 2022.
- A Conversation with Paulina Yurman. Prisca Arosio, Oggetti Socievoli, June 2022.
- Maternal Machines. 2022. Position pictorial paper for the 2nd International Workshop
on Designerly HRI Knowledge for ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. March 2022.
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Fluid Speculations: Drawing
Artefacts in Watercolour as Experimentation in Research Through Design. Pictorial Paper for ACM C&C
2021, Venice. Honorable Mention Award.
- Making Everyday Things Talk:
Speculative Conversations into the Future of Voice Interfaces at Home. n. Anuradha Venugopal Reddy, A. Baki Kocaballi, Iohanna Nicenboim, Marie
Louise Juul Søndergaard, Maria Luce Lupetti, Cayla Key, Chris Speed, Dan
Lockton, Elisa Giaccardi, Francisca Grommé, Holly Robbins, Namrata Primlani,
Paulina Yurman, Shanti Sumartojo, Thao Phan, Viktor Bedö, Yolande Strengers. ACM Alt CHI 2021,
Japa.
2021.
- Entrevista en Diseño y Diáspora, Oct. 2020. Metáforas y objetos críticos para investigar las relaciones con la tecnología. Una entrevista con Paulina Yurman, por Mariana Salgado.
- So I drew this thing. Conversations through Artefact Drawing. 2020. Position Paper for DIS 2020 virtual workshop http://thingsofdesign.info
- Understanding the Ageing Body Through its Fluids . 2020. Position Paper for DIS 2020 virtual workshop https://agesextech.wordpress.com
- How was it made? A Smartphone In the Nursery. ACM Interactions Magazine. January 2020
- Demo Hour ACM Interactions Magazine. November 2019. pdf: Demo Hour Nov 2019
- Designing for Ambivalence: a designer’s research into the role of smartphones for mothers and young children. (PhD Thesis) Yurman, P. 2019. Goldsmiths, University of London
- A Smartphone in the Nursery. 2019.Research Through Design Conference, Delft University of Technology, 18-22 March 2019
- A Smartphone in the Nursery (book). 2019. Goldsmiths, University of London
- Smartphones and Constructions of Motherhood (position paper). 2019. Technology to Mediate Role Conflict in Motherhood, ACM CHI 2019 workshop, Glasgow http://www.techformotherhood.com/
- Designing for Ambivalence – Mothers, Transitional Objects and Smartphones. ACM CHI 2017 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3027120
- Making Ritual Machines: The Mobile Phone as a Networked Material for Research Products. David Chatting, David S. Kirk, Abigail C. Durrant, Chris Elsden, Paulina Yurman, Jo-Anne Bichard. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado
- Ritual Machines I & II: Making Technology at Home. Kirk, D., Chatting, D., Yurman, P., Bichard, J. May 2016 CHI ’16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
- Family Rituals 2.0 (book).2015. Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Annual Symposium, Royal College of Art, London.
- Designing for Family Phatic Communication: A Design Critique Approach. David Chatting, D., Kirk, D., Yurman, P., Bichard, J. British HCI 2015, July 13 – 17, 2015, Lincoln, United Kingdom
- Capturing the Quotidian: what Home Life looks like at a Distance. Yurman, P., Chatting, D., Bichard, J., Kirk, D. Home-work: connections, transitions and the wider world. Centre for Studies of Home, One-day conference : 24/6/2014. The Geffrye Museum of the Home, London
- Quotidian Ritual and Work-Life Balance: An Ethnography. of Not Being There. Bichard, J., Yurman, P.. Kirk, D., Chatting, D. EPIC Conference, NY, 2014
Exhibitions:
- Design Transforms ‘23, display of Fluid Speculations, Machine Stories and More than Human Fluid Speculations. Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins, Granary Square, London, 11 Sept - 15 Oct 2023.
- A Smartphone in the Nursery – a display of PhD research artefacts. Research Through Design Conference, Delft University of Technology, 18-22 March 2019
- King’s College London. Play and Anna Freud. 15th September to 31st October. Display of Critical Artefacts.
- Play and Psychoanalysis: PhD research Artefacts, displayed inside a Cabinet of Transitional Objects. Freud Museum, London. 19th July to 10th September, 2017.
- OUR MACHINES: Anticipation Ritual Machine. Brighton Digital Festival. Brighton 3-18 Sept. 2016
- Family Rituals 2.0. Royal College of Art. 19-24 September 2015
- HOME|SICK. Ritual Machines, Family Rituals 2.0. Science Gallery, Dublin Dublin 1st May – 19th July 2015
- Breaking Through Exhibition: Design-led ethnographic tools developed for the Family Rituals 2.0 project. Royal College of Art. . September 2014. .
Presentations:
- Maternal Machines. Design Perspectives on Digital Healthcare, one day seminar at University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Mendrisio. 4th June 2025
- Maternal Machines and Other Fantasies of Care. KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. 28th November 2024
- Imagining Machines, the Maternal, Babies and Care. HCID Open Day Conference. City, University of London. 18th September 2024
- Maternal Machines: Design Speculations about Fantasies of Care. Dyson Library, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. 5th June 2024
- Maternal Machines: Design Speculations about Fantasies of Care. Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. 17th May 2024
- Design Interpretations – presentation at Virginia Tech Industrial Design department, March 2023
- A Smartphone in the Nursery – presentation of my PhD research. Research Through Design Conference, Delft University of Technology, 18-22 March 2019
- Presentation of Critical Artefacts. V&A Digital Digital Design Drop-In. 11th November 2017.
- Presentation of Critical Artefacts and doctorate research. King’s College London, Anna Freud and Play Conference. 15th September 2017.
- Presentation and discussion of Critical Artefacts and doctorate research. Freud Museum, London, Play and Psychoanalysis exhibition. 9th August, 2017.
- Material desires: design and work life balance. Beyond Balance Symposium. . Institution of Engineering and Technology, London, 27th June 2016
- Ritual Machines, Family Rituals 2.0. Chatting, D. & Yurman, P. V&A Digital Digital Design Drop-In. 21st November 2015.
- Family Rituals 2.0. Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design Annual Symposium, Royal College of Art, London. September 2014
Workshops:
- Maternal Machines: Imaginging Experiences in Perinatal Care. Workshop at ACM CHI Conference 2025, Yokohama Japan
- Imagining Perinatal Care, Machines and Non-Numerical Bodily Knowledge workshop. KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. 27th November 2024
- Imagining Machines, the Maternal and Care, an interrogative and multidisciplinary workshop. Central Saint Martins, London. 18th October 2024
- Imagining scenarios with technologies for maternal and infant care, a collaborative workshop. Dyson Library, Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London. 5th June 2024
- Imagining scenarios with technologies for maternal and infant care
a collaborative, speculative and visual workshop. Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge. 17th May 2024
- Venetian Drawing Conversations. ACM Creativity&Cognition 2022, Venice, June, 2022
- Urinary Systems Speculative Drawing Workshop for home UTI testing. Co-faciliated with Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden 2020
- Conversation Pieces: What would your Phone Say if it Could Speak? Yurman, P. Goldsmiths College, London 12th and 13th December 2016.
- Material Desires: Design-Led Explorations of the Home/Work Divide. Yurman, P. Goldsmiths College, London 17th February 2016.
- The Ethnography of Absence: Mapping Emotions. Design Anthropological Futures. Bichard, J. and Yurman, P. Research Network for Design Anthropology. Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 13-14 August 2015
- Design Led Enquiry for Mobile Lives. Kazakos, K., Kirk, D., Durrant, A., Chatting, D., Yurman, P., Bichard, J., Paik,J. CHI Workshop, Seoul, 19 April 2015.