Austin Toombs
Visiting Researcher
I am currently an Assistant Professor at Purdue University, in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology within the Purdue Polytechnic Institute. I manage the Community-Computer Interaction Lab (C-CIL) with my graduate and undergraduate students.
In Spring 2017 completed a postdoc (Research Associate) at Open Lab within Newcastle University.
2017
From Empathy to Care: A Feminist Care Ethics Perspective on Long-Term Researcher-Subject Relations
2017 – Interacting with Computers
Making a critical playshop
2017 – Interactions
2015
Flow of Competency in UX Design Practice
2015 – CHI’15: 2015 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Proper Care and Feeding of Hackerspaces: Care Ethics and Cultures of Making <strong> </strong>
2015 – CHI’15: 2015 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2014
Becoming Makers: Hackerspace Member Habits, Values, and Identities
2014 – Journal of Peer Production
"Now that's definitely a proper hack": Self-made Tools in Hackerspaces
2014 – CHI '14: 2014 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2013
A tribute to Mad Skill: Expert Amateur Visuality and World of Warcraft Machinima
2013 – CHI’13: Proceedings of the 2013 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2011
The significant screwdriver: care, domestic masculinity, and interaction design
2011 – Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
2009
An experience report and analysis of Java technologies in undergraduate game programming courses
2009 – Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges