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I am an Assistant Professor at The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT), University of Toronto. I work at the intersection of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Participatory Design, and Design for Social Justice. My research investigates the role design as a socio-material practice can play in supporting how communities reconfigure or reimagine living in social environments that are riven by cultural, generational, or organizational differences. This work has given me the honor to work directly with a rich set of community groups in NYC, Toronto, and refugee camps in Iraq.

My research draws on my multidisciplinary training in architecture, software engineering, ethnography, and philosophy. Despite using quantitative methods in the past, I currently lean towards qualitative methods due to the nuanced understandings they afford of the communities I work with.

Prior to my current research on design and difference, I spent 4 years studying shelter customization and permanence in war-zone refugee camps and designing/testing low-tech shelter sketching interfaces supported with computer vision and fabrication algorithms. And before that, I was active in the Ubiquitous Computing/Responsive Architecture research area.

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University of Toronto: Toronto, ON, CA

2023-07-01 to present | Assistant Professor (The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT))
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Works (13)

Unmaking & HCI: Techniques, Technologies, Materials, and Philosophies Beyond Making

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
2024-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Katherine W. Song; Samar Sabie; Steven Jackson; Kristina Lindström; Eric Paulos; Åsa Ståhl; Ron Wakkary
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Moving Towards Mobility Justice: Challenges and Considerations for Supporting Advocacy

Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2024-04-17 | Journal article
Contributors: Taneea S Agrawaal; Samar Sabie; Robert Soden
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Environmental and Climate Justice in Computing

2023-10-14 | Conference paper
Contributors: Olivia Doggett; Jen Liu; Ufuoma Ovienmhada; Samar Sabie; Sarah Gram; Laura J Perovich; Matt Ratto; Robert Soden
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The Pragmatics of Sustainable Unmaking: Informing Technology Design through e-Waste Folk Strategies

2023-07-10 | Conference paper
Contributors: Awais Hameed Khan; Samar Sabie; Dhaval Vyas
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Unmaking as Emancipation: Lessons and Reflections from Luddism

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2023-04-19 | Journal article | Author
Contributors: Samar Sabie; Robert Soden; Steven Jackson; Tapan Parikh
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Unmaking as Agonism: Using Participatory Design with Youth to Surface Difference in an Intergenerational Urban Context

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2022-04-29 | Journal article
Contributors: Samar Sabie; Steven J. Jackson; Wendy Ju; Tapan Parikh
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On destruction in design

ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society
2021-01-22 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0095-2737
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Memory through Design: Supporting Cultural Identity for Immigrants through a Paper-Based Home Drafting Tool

Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2020-04-21 | Conference paper
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Exile Within Borders: Understanding the Limits of the Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in Iraq

Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Computing within Limits
2019-06-10 | Conference paper
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Cultivating Care through Ambiguity: Lessons from a Service Learning Course

Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2019-05-02 | Conference paper
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Shelter Dynamics in Refugee and IDP Camps: Customization, Permanency, and Opportunities

Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Computing Within Limits
2017-06-22 | Conference paper
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Sustainable and Smart: Rethinking What a Smart Home is

Proceedings of ICT for Sustainability 2016
2016 | Conference paper
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Situating shelter design and provision in ICT discourse for scarce-resource contexts

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Computing within Limits
2016-06-08 | Conference paper
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