Publications

2026

Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Alyssa Johnson, Erin McClure, Mia Shaw, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2026. Situating Youth as Interaction Co-Designers of an Interactive Mural. Submitted to Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26).

Fiona Bell, Jingwen Zhou, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Fernanda Soares da Costa, Lauren Thu, Qiuyu Lu, Katherine Song, Phillip Gough, Cindy (Hsin-Liu) Kao, Valentina Nisi, Marion Koelle, and Ron Wakkary. 2026. Growing Bio-HCI at CHI: Exchanging Materials, Tools, Practices, and Artifacts at CHI. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26 EA).

Nadia Campo Woytuk, Nimra Ahmed, Mafalda Gamboa, Fiona Bell, Benedetta Lusi, Daisy O’Neill, Michel Muller, Anupriya Tuli, Xinglin Sun, Amelia Lee Doğan, Adrian Petterson, Ana Henriques, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, and Angelika Strohmayer. 2026. CHI Stitch ’n B*tch, A Feminist HCI Meetup. In Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’26 EA).

Yingting Gao, Jing Xie, Fiona Bell, Alex Cabral, Josiah Hester, and HyunJoo Oh. 2026. Designing Loofah Wearables for Embodied Ecological Reflection. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '26).

Courtney N. Reed, Marta Ferreira, Mónica Mendes, Pedro Galvão-Ferreira, Marion Koelle, Alice C. Haynes, Fiona Bell, Alexandra Teixeira Riggs, Laia Turmo Vidal, Mathilde Gouin, Vineetha Rallabandi, and Karen Anne Cochrane. 2026. In-Situ Seeding: Entangling Place & Technology through Sensory Data Dialogues. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '26).

Fiona Bell, Adrien Segal, and Tom Igoe. 2026. deLIGHTful Interactions: Designing Sustainable & Experimental Luminaires. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '26).

Fiona Bell, Adrien Segal, and Tom Igoe. 2026. Light-Material Dialogues: A Series of Sustainable & Experimental Luminaires. In Proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'26).

2025

Nadia Campo-Woytuk, Mafalda Gamboa, Alejandra Gomez Ortega, Joo Young Park, Anupriya Tuli, Deirdre Tobin, Fiona Bell, Marianela Ciolfi Felice, and Madeline Balaam. 2025. Making Intimate Technologies Together. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25).

Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Jamie Gould, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2025. ColdGlass: Full-Color Desktop 3D Printing in Glass. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25).

Fiona Bell, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Lauren Urenda, and Leah Buechley. 2025. 3D Printing Eggshells: Exploring Eco-Socio-Technical Relations through Biomaterial Design. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25).

Iohanna Nicenboim, Elvin Karana, Holly McQuillan, Laura Devendorf, Yasuaki Kakehi, Fiona Bell, Chris Speed, Deonja Oogjes, Lining Yao, Marie Louise Juul Søndergaard, Karey Helms, and Sonya Withers. 2025. Regenerative Material Ecologies in HCI: A Diffractive Dialogue. In the Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25 EA).

Jingwen Zhu, Fiona Bell, Katherine W. Song, Katia Vega, Aditya Shekhar Nittala, Mirela Alistar, Leah Buechley, and Hsin-Liu (Cindy) Kao. 2025. Wearable Bio-HCI: Challenges & Opportunities. In the Extended Abstracts of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’25 EA).

Fiona Bell, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, and Leah Buechley. 2025. Biomaterial Recipes for 3D Printing: A Cookbook of Sustainable and Extrudable Bio-Pastes. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'25).

Fiona Bell, Karen Anne Cochrane, Alice C. Haynes, Marion Koelle, Courtney N. Reed, Alexandra Texiera Riggs, Laia Turmo Vidal, and L. Vineetha Rallabandi. 2025. Sensory Data Dialogues: A Somaesthetic Exploration of Bordeaux through Five Senses. In the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '25).

Fiona Bell. 2025. Pu-239/240-LANL-45-75: Engaging with Historical Plutonium Radiation Data. In the Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'25 '25).

2024

Fiona Bell and Leah Buechley. 2024. Directions for Degradation: Multispecies Entanglements with 3D Printed Biomaterials. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium (HTTF’24).

Nadia Campo Woytuk, Fiona Bell, Joo Young Park, Mirela Alistar, and Madeline Balaam. 2024. A Plurality of More-than-Humanness: Feminist Speculations for Designing with the Vaginal Microbiome. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium (HTTF’24).

Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Mia Shaw, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Ode to Barelas: Supporting Youth Agency, Cultural Expression, and Community Engagement through an Interactive Mural. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
(DIS ’24).

Fiona Bell, Erin McClure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Designing 3D Printed Ceramics from a Clay with Tunable Shrinkage. In Design Research Society 2024: Boston (DRS ’24).

Katrin Nora Kober, Georg Regal, Verena Fuchsberger, Martin Murer, Joanna Kowolik, Nathalia Campreguer Franca, Dorothé Smit, Fiona Bell, and Tara Capel. 2024. Makers, Crafters, Tinkerers: How Identities and Biographies Come into Being. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference (NordiCHI'24).

Fiona Bell, Erin McClure, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Ruby Ta, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Shape- Changing Clay-Dough: Taking a Material-Oriented Approach to 3D Printing. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24).

Leah Buechley, Jaime Gould, and Fiona Bell. 2024. CeraMetal: A New Approach to Low-Cost Metal 3D Printing with Bronze Clay. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24).

Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Deanna Gelosi, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2024. WeaveSlicer: Expanding the Range of Printable Geometries in Clay. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24).

Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Mia Shaw, Fiona Bell, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Interactive Murals: New Opportunities for Collaborative STEAM Learning. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24).

Katherine W. Song, Fiona Bell, Himani Deshpande, Ilan Mandel, Tiffany Wun, Mirela Alistar,  Leah Buechley, Wendy Ju, Jeeeun Kim, Samar Sabie, Eric Paulos, and Ron Wakkary. 2024. Sustainable Unmaking: Designing for Biodegradation, Decay, and Disassembly. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24 EA).

Fiona Bell, Camila Friedman-Gerlicz, Jaime Gould, Erin McClure, Deanna Gelosi, Alyshia Bustos, Monica Silva-Lovato, Jeff Suina, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Demonstrating New Materials, Software, and Hardware from the Hand and Machine Lab. In Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’24 EA).

Fiona Bell, Joshua Coffie, and Mirela Alistar. 2024. Bio-Digital Calendar: Attuning to Nonhuman Temporalities for Multispecies Understanding. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24).

Fiona Bell, Shanel Wu, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Eldy Lazaro Vasquez, Mirela Alistar, and Leah Buechley. 2024. Making Biomaterials for Sustainable Tangible Interfaces. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'24).

2023

Fiona Bell, Michelle Ramsahoye, Joshua Coffie, Julia Tung, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. µMe: Exploring the Human Microbiome as an Intimate Material for Living Interfaces. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’23).

Jack Forman, Pat Pataranutaporn, Phillip Gough, Raphael Kim, Fiona Bell, Netta Ofer, Jasmine Lu, Angela Vujic, Muqing Bai, Pattie Maes, Hiroshi Ishii, and Misha Sra. 2023. Living Bits and Radical Aminos: A Workshop on Bio-Digital Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’23 EA).

Fiona Bell, Derrek Chow, Hyelin Choi, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. SCOBY Breastplate: Slowly Growing a Microbial Interface. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '23).

Fiona Bell, Derrek Chow, Eldy Lazaro Vasquez, Laura Devendorf, and Mirela Alistar. 2023. Designing Interactions with Kombucha SCOBY. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'23).

2022

Fiona Bell, Netta Ofer, and Mirela Alistar. 2022. ReClaym our Compost: Biodegradable Clay for Intimate Making. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22).

Fiona Bell, Netta Ofer, Hyelin Choi, Ella McQuaid, Ethan Frier, and Mirela Alistar. 2022. Biomaterial Playground: Engaging with Bio-based Materiality. In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’22 EA).

Fiona Bell, Latifa Al Naimi, Ella McQuaid, and Mirela Alistar. 2022. Designing with Alganyl. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '22).

Fiona Bell and Mirela Alistar. 2022. Designing with Alganyl: A Hands-on Exploration of Biodegradable Plastics. In Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'22).

2021

Netta Ofer, Fiona Bell, and Mirela Alistar. 2021. Designing Direct Interactions with Bioluminescent Algae. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’21).

Fiona Bell, Alice Hong, Andreea Danielescu, Aditi Maheshwari, Ben Greenspan, Hiroshi Ishii, Laura Devendorf, and Mirela Alistar. 2021. Self-deStaining Textiles: Designing Interactive Systems with Fabric, Stains and Light. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21).

Fiona Bell. 2021. The Undyeing Swatch. In Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'21).