Publications

Dissertations

Oktay, Nesli Hazal (2024). Far-away Bodies: Co-creating Design(s) in and for Remote Intimacy. PhD Dissertation. Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, Estonia. https://eka.access.preservica.com/uncategorized/SO_c9a831ae-7ec8-4a8b-b925-845bd5d21eba/

Demir, Arife Dila (2023). Extended [Textile] Soma: Somaesthetics of Bodily Discomforts. PhD Dissertation. Estonian Academy of Arts. Tallinn, Estonia. https://entu.app/eka/6557573d9ec6b30b7d3c87ae?_type.string=thesis&sort=name.string&q=demir

Kuusk, Kristi (2016). “Crafting sustainable smart textile services”, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. https://www.kristikuusk.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Kristi-Kuusk-PhD-thesis.pdf

Book chapters

Kuusk, Kristi; Valle Noronha, Julia; Tomico, Oscar (2023). Digital Technology Reshaping Clothing and Textile Practice Towards Sustainability. In: Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles Bloomsbury. (Textile Futures). https://research.aalto.fi/en/publications/digital-technology-reshaping-clothing-and-textile-practice-toward

Journal articles

Oktay, Nesli Hazal (2024). Creating Intimate Places for Close by Heart but Physically Apart People through Remote Embodiments. Research in Arts and Education Journal, 2024(1), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.54916/rae.142452

Oktay, Nesli Hazal (2023). Dissolving distances: Designing Close-to-body Experiences for Remote Settings. HUB – Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, 1(1). https://doi.org/10.22501/hub.2272473

Demir, Arife Dila; Kuusk, Kristi; Nimkulrat, Nithikul (2022). “Squeaky/Pain: Articulating the Felt Experience of Pain for Somaesthetic Interactions”. Temes de Disseny, 2022, Num. 38, pp. 162-178, https://doi.org/10.46467/TdD38.2022.162-178.

Demir, Arife Dila; Nimkulrat, Nithikul; Kuusk, Kristi (2022). ‘Squeaky/Pain’: Cultivating Disturbing Experiences and Perspective Transition for Somaesthetic Interactions. Diseña, (20), Article.2. Retrieved from http://www.revistadisena.uc.cl/index.php/Disena/article/view/33007

Neves, Inês Rodrigues; Reyes, Claudia Diaz; Pachi, Ismini; Demir, Arife Dila; Kuusk, Kristi (2021). Creative exchange through joint responsibility: designing performances in multidisciplinary teams in the educational context. Research in Arts and Education, 1/2021. https://journal.fi/rae/article/view/119319

Kubinyi, Eva Liisa; Naydenova, Vera; Kuusk, Kristi (2021). Children and design students practicing playful co-creation in a youth creativity lab. Research in Arts and Education, 1/2021. https://journal.fi/rae/article/view/119320

Kuusk, Kristi; Tajadura-Jiménez, Ana; Väljamäe, Aleksander (2020). A transdisciplinary collaborative journey leading to sensorial clothing. CoDesign – International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts.  http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15710882.2020.1833934?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Tajadura-Jiménez, Ana; Väljamäe, Aleksander; Kuusk, Kristi (2020). Altering One’s Body-perception Through E-Textiles and Haptic Metaphors. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.  http://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2020.00007/full

Conference proceedings

Peer-reviewed papers

Kuusk, Kristi; Hamid, Azeem; Babayev, Zaur; Veske-Lepp, Paula; Oktay, Nesli Hazal. (2025). Relational Design for Remote Intergenerational Sensorial Play Experiences. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Design Research Society Conference (NORDES 2025), Oslo, Norway. (Forthcoming)

Albano, Annunziata; Hamid, Azeem; Malbet, Agathe. (2025). Exploring Haunted Spaces of Participation through Justice. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Design Research Society Conference (NORDES 2025), August 6–8, 2025, Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet), Oslo, Norway. (Forthcoming)

Madaghiele, Vincenzo; Demir, Arife Dila (2024). Pain Creature: interdisciplinary collaboration in the design of an embodied textile instrument. In Proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expressions (NIME 2024). (Forthcoming)

Veske-Lepp, Paula; Kuusk, Kristi; Kool, Helen; Beilmann, Merje; Traumann, Ada. (2024). E-textiles in the Future of Wellbeing and Care of Elderly. Cumulus Budapest 2024 conference. (Forthcoming)

Hung, Hsuan-Hsiu; Kuusk, Kristi (2024). Moving Awareables. Digital Bodies Conference: Proceedings: Everything and Everybody as Material: Dialogical Bodies, Borås, Sweden, 19th – 20th of April 2024.. Ed. Tepe, Jan. Borås: University of Borås, Faculty of Textiles, Engineering and Business, 44−45. https://hb.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1859407/FULLTEXT01.pdf

Honauer, Michaela; Uğur Yavuz, Seçil; Kuusk, Kristi (2024). TREESENSE – Sensitising Children to Nature through Embodied Play. Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference. ACM, 639−643. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3628516.3659425

Hamid, Azeem; Hameed, Umar; Kuusk, Kristi (2024). Engaging Public Spaces: Designing for a playful live community experience. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI Adjunct 2024), October 13–16, 2024, Uppsala, Sweden. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3677045.3685422.

Demir, Arife Dila; Núñez-Pacheco, Claudia (2024). Autosomatographical Narratives: Towards the Articulation of Felt Accounts of Pain for Somaesthetic Design. In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems in the ACM Digital Library (DIS’2024). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3643834.3660756

Demir, Arife Dila*; Oktay, Nesli Hazal*; Kuusk, Kristi (2023). Cultivating and Eliciting Felt Experiences for Design Use: Physical Manifestations of Abstract Bodily Experiences. In Proceedings of the Design Research Society Special Interest Group: Experiential Knowledge, EKSIG 2023. https://www.eksig2023.polimi.it/assets/EKSIG-Proceedings.pdf *joint first authors

Oktay, Nesli Hazal; Wilde, Danielle; Kuusk, Kristi (2023). Conversations with the Body of the Other: A Three-step Dialogical Process. In Proceedings of the Nordic Design Research Society, NORDES 2023. https://doi.org/10.21606/nordes.2023.58

Oktay, Nesli Hazal (2022). Design placebos for the impossibility of empathy in videotelephony, in Lockton, D., Lenzi, S., Hekkert, P., Oak, A., Sádaba, J., Lloyd, P. (eds.), DRS2022: Bilbao, 25 June – 3 July, Bilbao, Spain. https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.598

Zhiglova, Yulia; Kuusk, Kristi; Lamas, David; Smorgun, Ilja; Seitlinger, Paul (2021). Wearable Confidence — Concept and Prototype Design. Human-Computer-Interaction – INTERACT 2021: 18th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Bari, Italy, August 30 – September 3, 2021. Ed. Ardito, C., Lanzilotti, R., Malizia, A., Petrie, H., Piccinno, A., Desolda, G., Inkpen, K. Springer, Cham, 328−331. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 12936). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-030-85607-6_31

Uğur Yavuz, Seçil; Kuusk, Kristi; Honauer, Michaela (2021). Designing somatic play for digital natives through a body-centric design process. DESIGN CULTURE (OF) ARTIFICIAL, 2: Cumulus Roma 2021. Ed. Loredana Di Lucchio, Lorenzo Imbesi, Angela Giambattista, Viktor Malakuczi. Roma: Cumulus, 264−278. (Design Culture(s). Cumulus Conference Proceedings Roma 2021, Volume #2; 2). http://cumulusroma2020.org/proceedings/

Honauer, Michaela; Yavuz, Secil Ugur; Kuusk, Kristi (2020). WORM-E: An Interactive Toy Enriching Children’s Bodily and Social Play. In: DIS 2020 proceedings and companion proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. DIS 2020: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, July 6-20, 2020, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, DIS 2020 will be a virtual conference. ACM. http://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3393914.3395814

Demir, Arife Dila (2020). AURA: Altering Self-Perception Through Interactive Light Emitting Textiles. Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society. ACM Digital Library, 1−3. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3419249.3421234

Kuusk, Kristi; Tajadura-Jiménez, Ana; Väljamäe, Aleksander (2019). Magic Lining: Crafting Multidisciplinary Experiential Knowledge by Changing Wearer’s Body-Perception through Vibrotactile Clothing. Conference Proceedings of International Conference 2019 of the DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge. Ed. Nithikul Nimkulrat, Kristi Kuusk, Julia Valle Noronha, Camilla Groth and Oscar Tomico. Tallinn: Estonian Academy of Arts, 186−200. http://www.eksig2019.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/EKSIG-2019-Front-Matters_A4_final.pdf

Workshop publications

Arife Dila Demir, Joo Young Park, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, and Marianela Ciolfi Felice (2023). Designing with the Body in Unhabitual Movements using Visual and Textual Elicitation Tools. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3571845

Popova, Kristina; Park, Jooyoung; Demir, Arife Dila (2023). Conquering the silence, exploring the uncomfortable together: A collective exploration of discomfort as a design resource. The 10th Nordic Design Research Society (Nordes) Conference. June 12-14, Sweden.

Scholz, Barbro; Honauer, Michaela; Kuusk, Kristi; Veske, Paula; Ugur Yavuz, Seçil (2022). Designing wearable interactions through playful on-body explorations. Proceedings of ETIS 2022, 3328: 5th European Tangible Interaction Studio Toulouse, France, November 7-10, 2022.. Ed. Valérie Maquil. CEUR Workshop Proceedings.

Seçil Uğur Yavuz, Paula Veske , Barbro Scholz, Michaela Honauer and Kristi Kuusk (2021). Design for Playfulness with Interactive Soft Materials. Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430524.3442702

Others

Kuusk, Kristi; Oktay, Nesli Hazal; Demir, Arife Dila (2022). Sensorial Design: Feel, Move, Interact! In Design Journal Leida 1(1). https://leida.artun.ee/en/issues/technocriticism/sensorial-design-feel-move-interact

Exhibitions

Kuusk, Kristi; Michaela Honauer; Secil Ugur. WORTH II Exhibition. Project: Treesense. Milan Design Week, April 2023

Kuusk, Kristi. ICIDS STARTS Exhibition. Project: Magic Lining. TLU Estonia, 7-10-12-2021
Kuusk, Kristi. Lapse asi. EKA tudengite disain lastele. Project: Textales, Bedtime Stories. EKA Gallery, October-November 2022

Kuusk, Kristi. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations. Project: ‘Magic Lining’. Gallery Artifex, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, April-May 2022

Demir, Arife Dila. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations.  Project: ‘SQUEAKY/PAIN’. Gallery Artifex, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania, April-May 2022

Kuusk, Kristi. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations. Project: ‘Magic Lining’. EKA Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia, October-November 2021

Demir, Arife Dila. Textile Design Department Exhibition/ Soft Negotiations.  Project: ‘SQUEAKY/PAIN’.  EKA Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia, October-November 2021

Sensorial Design Group Exhibition. Disainiöö. Tallinn, Estonia, September 2021

Presentations

Oktay, Nesli Hazal. First Peer Review Event Presentation of the project Intimacy with Far-away Bodies Reviewers: Oscar Tomico and Verena Fuchsberger. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, February 2022.

Demir, Arife Dila. Third Peer Review Event Presentation of the project Pain Creature. Reviewers: Claudia Núñez-Pacheco and Michaela Honauer. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, February 2022.

Oktay, Nesli Hazal. First Peer Review Event Presentation of the project Empathic Placebos Reviewers: Oscar Tomico and Kristina Andersen. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2021.

Demir, Arife Dila. Caring Companion: Materializing Bodily Experiences for Somaesthetic Interactions. Conference presentation in Futurescan5: Conscious Communities. Online, September 2022

Demir, Arife Dila. Second Peer Review Event Presentation of the project Caring Companion. Reviewers: Claudia Núñez-Pacheco and Vasiliki Tsakniki. Hybrid, Tallinn, Estonia, August 2022

Oktay, Nesli Hazal. “Embodying thinking and feeling in action: The case of making design placebos”. Presentation in the joint Doctoral School Conference at Estonian Music and Theather Academy, Tallinn, Estonia, February 2022

Demir, Arife Dila. First Peer Review Event Presentation of the project ‘SQUEAKY/PAIN’. Reviewers: Danielle Wilde and Claudia Núñez-Pacheco. Online, April 2021

Demir, Arife Dila. Extended Bodies: Altering Body-Perception through Movement-Based Textile Interactions. NordiCHI’20. Online, October 2020

Demo Days

Oktay, Nesli Hazal. “Gazing for Meaning”. International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2021. (Tallinn, Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives as part of STARTS.EE Exhibition 2021) Tallinn, December 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0htzw5MZDM4

Demir, A. D., Kohava, M. Odyssey for One. STARTS.EE art + science residency.  eˉlektron art, Tallinn, Estonia, December 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7xX8yYBuLs