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Karey Helms

Universitetslektor i design på Designhögskolan

Kontakt

E-post
karey.helms@umu.se
Telefon
090-786 94 40

Verksam som

Anknytning
Universitetslektor vid Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet
Plats
-, Östra Strandgatan 30 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Jag är universitetslektor i design och programansvarig för den internationella kandidatexamen i industridesign med start hösten 2026. Jag undervisar på såväl kandidat- och master- samt doktorandnivå (BFA, MFA och PhD).

Bakgrund

Jag har en Kandidatexamen i arkitektur från University of Virginia, en Masterexamen i interaktionsdesign från Umeå Designhögskola och en doktorsexamen i interaktionsdesign från Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan.

Jag har omfattande erfarenhet av att arbeta inom industrin som designer, inklusive roller i USA och UK som arkitektonisk designassistent, digital informationsdesigner och senior interaktions- och tjänstedesigner. Innan min doktorandtjänst arbetade jag i London för Zebra Technologies, ett teknikföretag som specialiserar sig på sakernas internet för företag, och gjorde användarforskning, konceptutveckling och plattformsoberoende design för FedEx, Amazon, Biffa och DPD.

Undervisning

Som lärare tror jag på studentledda lärmiljöer och jag främjar kritiskt tänkande samt lärande genom skapande.

Forskning

Min forskning handlar om situationer där teknik ofta anses malplacerad, såsom intima kroppsfunktioner eller utomhusekologier.

Toying with relations: speculative toys for children and sustainability
Proceedings of nordes 2025: relational design, 6-8 August, Oslo, Norway, Oslo: Oslo School of architecture and design, University of Oslo, Olso Metropolitan University 2025 : 601-607
Helms, Karey; Jääskeläinen, Petra; Lindberg, Sharon; et al.
Regenerative Material Ecologies in HCI
CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Nicenboim, Iohanna; Karana, Elvin; McQuillan, Holly; et al.
How do design stories work? Exploring narrative forms of knowledge in HCI
CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Oogjes, Doenja; Biggs, Heidi; Desjardins, Audrey; et al.
Generosity in more-than-human design
DRS2024: research papers
Helms, Karey
Bodywork at work: attending to bodily needs in gig, shift, and knowledge work
CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Yadav, Deepika; Karlgren, Kasper; Shaikh, Riyaj Isamiya; et al.
A speculative ethics for designing with bodily fluids
CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Helms, Karey
Entangled reflections on designing with leaky breastfeeding bodies
DIS '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, ACM Digital Library 2021 : 1998-2012
Helms, Karey
Troubling care: four orientations for wickedness in design
DIS '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, ACM Digital Library 2021 : 789-801
Helms, Karey; Fernaeus, Ylva
Scaling bodily fluids for utopian fabulations
Nordes 2021: Matters of scale: Proceedings of the The 9th Nordes Design Research conference, Kolding, Denmark
Helms, Karey; Juul Søndergaard, Marie Louise; Campo Woytuk, Nadia
"Vibrant wearables": material encounters with the body as a soft system
Journal of Textile Design Research and Practice, Routledge 2021, Vol. 9, (2) : 142-163
Tsaknaki, Vasiliki; Helms, Karey; Juul Søndergaard, Marie Louise; et al.
Careful design: implicit interactions with care, taboo, and humor
DIS' 20 Companion: Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, ACM Digital Library 2020 : 515-519
Helms, Karey
From nomadic work to nomadic leisure practice: a study of long-term bike touring
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) 2019, Vol. 3, (CSCW)
Ferreira, Pedro; Helms, Karey; Brown, Barry; et al.
Do you have to pee? A design space for intimate and somatic data
DIS '19: Proceedings of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems Conference, ACM Digital Library 2019 : 1209-1222
Helms, Karey
Away and (dis)connection: reconsidering the use of digital technologies in light of long-term outdoor activities
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, ACM Digital Library 2019, Vol. 3, (GROUP)
Helms, Karey; Ferreira, Pedro; Brown, Barry; et al.
Design methods to investigate user experiences of artificial intelligence
The 2018 AAAI SpringSymposium Series: Technical Report SS-18, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence 2018 : 394-398
Helms, Karey; Brown, Barry; Sahlgren, Magnus; et al.
Sociomateriality: Infrastructuring and appropriation of artifacts
TEI '18: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, ACM Digital Library 2018 : 724-727
Jenkins, Tom; Helms, Karey; Tsaknaki, Vasiliki; et al.
The smart data layer
The 2018 AAAI Spring Symposium Series: Technical Report SS-18, AAAI Press 2018 : 185-188
Sahlgren, Magnus; Ylipää, Erik; Brown, Barry; et al.
Leaky objects: implicit information, unintentional communication
DIS '17 Companion: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems, ACM Digital Library 2017 : 182-186
Helms, Karey
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