Mike Vanis

Senior Research Fellow

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Email Mike

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Supporting the Long Now: Building Technology for Tangible Interaction in a Decade-Long Exhibition, Sheen, A., Vanis, M. 11 May 2026, Creativity & Cognition 2026, ACM
A Converted Flat in 2049: The Room of the Future, Boucher, A., Gaver, W., Brown, D., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Matsuda, N., Vanis, M. 18 Jul 2024
Exploring More-than-Human Smart Cities: The Emergent Logic of a Design Workbook, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M. 3 May 2024, Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Thinking and making lab with hiCraft and the Interaction Research Studio: Make a Yo-Yo machine with The Interaction Research Studio, Ovalle, L., Vanis, M. 8 Jul 2023
Yo-Yo Machines: Speed Dial exhibited as part of the Saint-Étienne Design Biennial 2022, Boucher, A., Gaver, W., Brown, D., Vanis, M., Sheen, A., Ovalle Piedra, L., Matsuda, N., Chatting, D. 6 Apr 2022
Yo–Yo Machines: Self-Build Devices that Support Social Connections During the Pandemic , Gaver, B., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Chatting, D., Matsuda, N., Ovalle Piedra, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M. 29 Apr 2022, CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, US, ACM
My Naturewatch Camera, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Molinera, J., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M., Phillips, R., Abbas-Nazari, A., Growing, B., Anderson, R. 3 Jun 2021
Yo-yo machines: self-build peripheral awareness communication devices, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Chatting, D., Matsuda, N., Molinera, J., Ovalle Piedra, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M. Nov 2021
Design and Deploying Tools to ‘Actively Engaging Nature’: The My Naturewatch Project as an Agent for Engagement, Phillips, R., Abbas-Nazari, A., Tooze, J., Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Vanis, M. 8 Jun 2019, HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance, Cham, Switzerland, Springer