Nicholas T Logler

Postdoctoral Scholar

nlogler@uw.edu

Specializations

Materiality
Design Theory
Value Sensitive Design

Research Areas

Biography

Nick Logler is a postdoctoral researcher working in the Tech Policy Lab. His research sits at the intersection of the possibilities available to us (imagination), the substances we use to enact these possibilities (materials), and the tools and practices we use to re-envision the boundaries of both (design). To date, Nick's research on materials and imagination has centered on the different possibilities we might envision for discarded consumer electronics, and e-waste in general. He is currently thinking about More-Than-Human Centered Design and developing tools and resources to foreground questions of materiality in tech policy.

Education

Ph D, Information Science, University of Washington, 2023
MS, Information Science, University of Washington, 2018
MA, Ethics, Peace, & Global Affairs, American University, 2012
BA, Global Studies, Loyola University Maryland, 2009

Publications and Contributions

White Paper

Ways to Grow: New Directions for Agricultural Technology Policy (2022)
Authors: Stephanie Ballard, Ryan Calo, Ishita Chordia, Batya Friedman, Elias Greendorfer, David G. Hendry, Nicholas Logler
Conference Paper

"I feel like this is a bad thing": Investigating disassembly in action for novices (2020)
Proceedings of the 38th annual ACM conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI '20) Authors: Nicholas Logler, Caroline Pitt, Xin Gao, Allison Marie Hishikawa, Jason Yip, Batya Friedman
Book Editor, Scholarly

Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence (2020)
Authors: Batya Friedman, Ryan Calo, Tadayoshi Kohno, Hannah Almeter, Nicholas Logler
Conference Paper

Collaborative reflection: A practice for enriching research partnerships spanning culture, discipline, and time (2018)
Proceedings of CHI 2018 Authors: Daisy Yoo, Odeth Kantengwa, Nicholas Logler, Reverien Interayamahanga, Joseph Nkurunziza, Batya Friedman
Conference Paper

Metaphor Cards: A how-to-guide for making and using a generative metaphorical design toolkit (2018)
Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) 2018, pp. 1373-1386 Authors: Nicholas Logler, Daisy Yoo, Batya Friedman
Toolkit

Multi-lifespan Envisioning Cards – Supplementary Set (2018)
Authors: Daisy Yoo, Tadayoshi Kohno, Stephanie Ballard, Batya Friedman
Toolkit

Metaphor Cards (2011)
Authors: Daisy Yoo, Nicholas Logler, Batya Friedman

Presentations

Metaphor Cards: A How-to-Guide for Making and Using a Generative Metaphorical Design Toolkit (2018)
Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2018 - Hong Kong