Publications

Books

Heather Wiltse, Ed.  2020. Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/relating-to-things-9781350124257/

Johan Redström and Heather Wiltse. 2019. Changing Things: The Future of Objects in a Digital World. London: Bloomsbury. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/changing-things-9781350004351/

Journal papers

Sabrina Hauser, Johan Redström and Heather Wiltse. 2021. “The widening rift between aesthetics and ethics in the design of computational things.” AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01279-w

Heather Wiltse. 2021. Maneuvering in the Interval: Reflections on Immanent Entanglements. Foundations of Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-020-09766-x

Paul Rogers, Giovanni Innella, Craig Bremner, Ian Coxon, Cara Broadley, Alessia Cadamuro, Stephanie Carleklev, et al. 2019. “The Lancaster Care Charter.” Design Issues 35 (1): 73–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00522.

Heekyoung Jung, Heather Wiltse, Mikael Wiberg, and Erik Stolterman. 2017. Metaphors, Materialities, and Affordances: Hybrid Morphologies in the Design of Interactive Artifacts. Design Studies 53: 24–46. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.destud.2017.06.004.

Heather Wiltse, Erik Stolterman, and Johan Redström. 2015. Wicked interactions: (On the necessity of) reframing the ‘computer’ in philosophy and design. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 19 (1): 26-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne201531926

Heather Wiltse. 2014. Unpacking digital material mediation. Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology (18) 3: 154-182.
http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/techne201411322

Book Chapters

Heather Wiltse. 2021. #83 A Tuning Theory of Design[ing] ; and #94 A Disempowering Theory of Design[ing]. In 118 Theories of Design(ing). Ed. Paul A. Rodgers and Craig Bremner. Vernon Press.

Heather Wiltse. 2020. Introduction: Relating to Things That Relate to Us. In Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial. Ed. Heather Wiltse, 1-11. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Heather Wiltse. 2020. Revealing Relations of Fluid Assemblages. In Relating to Things: Design, Technology and the Artificial. Ed. Heather Wiltse, 239-253. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.

Heather Wiltse. 2017. Mediating (infra)structures: Technology, media, environment. In Postphenomenology and Media. Ed. Yoni Van Den Eede, Stacey Irwin, and Galit Wellner, 3-25. Lexington Books (an imprint of Rowman and Littlefield).

Diane P. Michelfelder, Galit Wellner, and Heather Wiltse. 2017. Designing differently: Toward a methodology for an ethics of feminist technology design. In The Ethics of Technology: Methods and Approaches. Ed. Sven Ove Hansson, 193-218. London: Rowman and Littlefield.

Dissertation

Heather Wiltse. 2013. The Mediating Role of Responsive Digital Materials: A Conceptual Investigation and Analytic Framework. Doctoral Dissertation, Indiana University Bloomington. http://tiny.cc/WiltseDiss

Conference papers (peer reviewed full papers)

Johan Redström and Heather Wiltse. 2019. “Changing Things: Innovation through Design Philosophy.” Academy of Design Innovation Management 2019: Research Perspectives in the Era of Transformations.

Janaina T. Barbosa, Heather Wiltse, and João A. Mota. 2017. “Power of Design Agency In Building and Sustaining Collaboration: Two Cases in São Paulo.” Nordes 2017: DESIGN+POWER. http://www.nordes.org/nordes2017/programme/index.html

Johan Redström and Heather Wiltse. 2015. Press Play: Acts of defining (in) fluid assemblages. In Proceedings of Nordes 2015: Design Ecologies. http://www.nordes.org/opj/index.php/n13/article/view/432/407

Lorenzo Davoli, Heather Wiltse, and Johan Redström. 2015. Trojans & drones: Materializing possibilities for transforming industrial infrastructures. In Proceedings of the 2nd Biennial Research Through Design Conference, 25-27 March 2015, Cambridge, UK, Article 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1328010

Heather Wiltse and Erik Stolterman. 2010. Architectures of interaction: an architectural perspective on digital experience.  In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries (NordiCHI ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA,  821-824. DOI=10.1145/1868914.1869038 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1868914.1869038

Heather Wiltse and Jeffrey Nichols. 2009. PlayByPlay: collaborative web browsing for desktop and mobile devices.  In Proceedings of the 27th international conference on human factors in computing systems (CHI ’09). ACM, New York, NY, USA,  1781-1790. DOI=10.1145/1518701.1518975 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1518701.1518975

Conference panels, events, and workshops (peer reviewed)

Steven Dorrestijn, Diane Michelfelder, Michel Puech, Holly Robbins, Yoni Van Den Eede, Fanny Verrax, and Heather Wiltse. 2017. Relating to things that relate to us. Double panel organized for SPT 2017: The Grammar of Things, June 14-17, 2017, Darmstadt, Germany.

Heather Wiltse, Monica Lindh Karlsson, Kristina Lindström, Aditya Pawar, and Åsa Ståhl. 2016. Non-local situations: Speculating about future response-abilities of postindustrial design (research). Conversation presented at DRS 2016. https://www.drs2016.org/538

Heather Wiltse. 2015. Caring for social implications of designed things: A borderland project. Paper accepted for “Shifting Borderlands of Technoscience: Tracing Trajectories of Critical Praxis” workshop at Critical Alternatives 2015: 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference.

Heather Wiltse. 2015. Adventures of an interdisciplinary native. Paper accepted for “I’ve Had It! Group therapy for interdisciplinary researchers” workshop at Critical Alternatives 2015: 5th Decennial Aarhus Conference.

Galit Wellner, Diane Michelfelder, and Heather Wiltse. 2014. Thinking like a girl. Panel at the Celebrating Women from Computer Ethics to Information Ethics Conference (in association with CEPE 2014 and ETHICOMP 2014).

Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Jaime Snyder, David Askay, Heather Wiltse, Arvind Karunakaran. From “effects” to “entanglements”: A fishbowl discussion on sociomateriality. To be held in the Sessions for Interaction and Engagement track at iConference 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/47395

Conference papers (peer reviewed abstracts)

Nicholas Baroncelli Torretta, Heather Wiltse, and Xaviera Sánchez de la Barquera Estrada. 2018. Who gets to situate design? Reflections from engaging with diversity in design. Paper presented at EASST 2018, 25-28th July 2018, Lancaster University, UK in track “Situating Designs.” https://nomadit.co.uk/easst/easst2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6280

Heather Wiltse. 2017. On the multi-intentionality of assembled things. Paper presented at SPT 2017: The Grammar of Things, June 14-17, 2017, Darmstadt, Germany.

Johan Redström and Heather Wiltse. 2015. On the multi-instabilities of assembled things. Paper presented at 4S 2015, the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science in the panel session Postphenomenological Research 3: Theoretical Perspectives. http://dx.doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.1.2649.1924

Heather Wiltse. 2013. Analyzing responsive digital material. Paper presented at 4S 2013, the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Heather Wiltse. 2013. Unpacking digital material mediation. Paper presented at SPT 2013, the biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.

Heather Wiltse and Erik Stolterman. 2012. Conceptualizing interactive technologies as environmental infrastructures. Paper presented at 4S, the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Heather Wiltse and Erik Stolterman. 2011. Making activities visible: Digital substrates and traces. Paper presented at 4S, the annual meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science.

Heather Wiltse. 2011. In search of a philosophy for ‘wicked’ technologies. Paper presented at SPT 2011, the biennial conference of the Society for Philosophy and Technology.

Conference companion

Johan Redström, Erik Stolterman, Anna Valtonen, and Heather Wiltse, ed. 2014. Companion to DRS 2014: Design’s Big Debates. Umeå, Sweden: Umeå Institute of Design, Umeå University. ISBN 978-91-7601-069-3.

Magazine article

Heather Wiltse. 2015. On being turned inside out. Interactions 22 (3): 20-21. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2767137.2744710

Book reviews

Heather Wiltse. 2013. Book review of Leonardi, Paul M, Bonnie A Nardi, and Jannis Kallinikos, ed., Materiality and Organizing: Social Interaction in a Technological World. The Information Society (29) 5. DOI:10.1080/01972243.2013.826519 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01972243.2013.826519?journalCode=utis20#.UmkgiJEz3fk

Heather Wiltse. 2011. Book review: André Nusselder, Interface Fantasy: A Lacanian Cyborg Ontology. New Media & Society (13), 1023. DOI=  10.1177/14614448110130060103 http://nms.sagepub.com/content/13/6/1023.full.pdf+html

Master’s thesis

Heather Wiltse. 2007. The everyday use and experience of computer-mediated communication. Master’s thesis, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.  https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/bitstream/handle/1805/2264/Wiltse%20thesis_FINAL.pdf?sequence=1

Technical Report

Erik Stolterman, Heather Wiltse, Siyu Chen, Vincent Lewandowski, and Leo Pak. 2012. Analyzing Artifact Interaction Complexity. Technical Report Number: HCID-2012-002. http://hdl.handle.net/2022/14360