Sara Heitlinger

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PUBLICATIONS

Reviewed Journal Papers

  • Heitlinger, S & Bryan-Kinns, N. Understanding performative beaviour within content-rich Digital Live Art. Digital Creativity. Taylor and Francis, 24(2). 2013

  • Heitlinger, S. Privileged Tactics. Wasafiri. Taylor and Francis, 25(3). 2010

Reviewed Conference Publications

  • Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Jefferies, J. The Talking Plants: an Interactive System for Grassroots Urban Food-Growing Communities. CHI’14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2014 (Forthcoming)

  • Clarke, R., Briggs, J., Light, A., Heitlinger, S., & Crivellaro, C. Socially Engaged Arts Practice in HCI. CHI’09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, 2014 (Forthcoming)

  • Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N.,  & Jefferies, J. Sustainable HCI for grassroots urban food-growing communities. Proc. of OzCHI 2013. ACM, 2013

  • Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Jefferies, J. UbiComp for grassroots urban food-growing communities. Proc. of UbiComp adjunct publications 2013. ACM, 2013

Reviewed Demos

  • Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., Stockman, T., O’Flanagan, O.,  & Couzyn, T. The Talking Quilt – Augmenting domestic objects for communal meaning-making. In DIS ’12. 2012

  • Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., Stockman, T., O’Flanagan, O.,  & Couzyn, T. The Talking Quilt – Augmenting domestic objects for communal meaning-making. Proc. of EVA ‘12. BCS, 2012

  • Heitlinger, S. Nothing to worry about. In Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts. 2010

Reviewed Conference Position Papers

  • Heitlinger, S., Bryan-Kinns, N., & Jefferies, J. Moving beyond the individual consumer in sustainable HCI. In workshop proceedings of Post-Sustainability. CHI ’13. 2013

  • Heitlinger, S. Stories of repair. In workshop proceedings of Reclaiming Repair. CHI ’13. 2013

  • Heitlinger, S. Slow technology to re-appropriate our lives. In workshop proceedings of Slow Technology. In DIS ’12. 2012

  • Heitlinger, S. In workshop proceedings of Perspectives on Participation. In DIS ’12. 2012

EDUCATION

Visiting Researcher
Advised by Carl DiSalvo
Digital Media, Georgia Tech, Atlanta USA | January – May 2014

Ph.D. Candidate in Media and Arts Technology | 2009 – present
4 year Doctoral Training programme, plus one year maternity leave
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London

MA in Creative Writing | 2002
School of English, University of East Anglia, Norwich

B.Sc. in Computer Science | 1999
Hebrew University, Jerusalem

AWARDS

PhD Studentship
EPSRC-funded full scholarship and stipend for PhD research at Queen Mary Doctoral Training Centre

UNESCO Digital Art Award for Privileged Tactics II (with Franc Purg) | 2007

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Teaching Assistant, Professonal and Research Themes
Mentored 30 students to produce written and documentary video outputs to aid in communication skills to academic and non-academic audiences about scientific research
Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London | Sep. – Dec. 2012

Workshop facilitator, e-textiles and physical computing
Devised and ran workshops for teenagers
Victoria and Albert Museum | October 2012

Workshop facilitator, RFID and physical computing
Devised and ran workshops for women
[SPACE] Media Arts | February 2013

INVITED TALKS

Interactive technology, connected communities and environmental sustainability
Interaction Design Lab Seminar | University of Melbourne, Australia| November, 2013

Designing for slow technology to support the values of grassroots communities
Thursday Club | Centre for Creative Collaboration, London, UK | October, 2012

Panel Convenor | Geographies of craft, spaces of creativity and connected communities
Thursday Club | Centre for Creative Collaboration, London, UK | October, 2012

Art, technology and community, Kitchen Talks | CultureLab, Newcastle, UK | February 2012

NETWORKS and SERVICE

Core member of EPSRC-funded Communities and Culture Network+ | 2012 – present

Reviewer for Communities and Culture Network+ funding bids | 2012

Board Member, MzTEK – non-profit organisation that aims to address the imbalance of women artists working in new media, computer arts, and technology | 2009 – present