Publications

Transforcers: Exploring Information Communication through Surface-based Force Interactions

Kim Sauvé, James Nash, Sunmi Lawal, Owen Chow, Alvaro Favaratto Santos, and Jason Alexander. 2026. In Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1790–1805. https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3813060

ZeroWaste PhysKit: A Sustainable Approach to Data Physicalization Workshops

Sarah Hayes, Martin Lindrup, Rebecca Noonan, Lisa Zimmermann, Nathalie Bressa, and Kim Sauvé. 2026. In Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5091–5104.https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3812793

Investigating the Impact of Deformable, Movable, and Rigid Surfaces on Force-Input Interactions

James Nash, Kim Sauvé, Adwait Sharma, Christopher Clarke, and Jason Alexander. 2025. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 32, 5, Article 44 (October 2025), 57 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3736409

HydroHaptics: High-Fidelity Force-Feedback on Soft Deformable Interfaces using Hydrostatic Transmission

James Nash, Kim Sauvé, Catharina Maria van Riet, Anke van Oosterhout, Adwait Sharma, Christopher Clarke, and Jason Alexander. 2025. In Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 59, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746059.3747679

Travel Patterns & Conference Intentions: Engaging Conference Attendees with Sustainability through Input Physicalization

Sarah Hayes, Martin Lindrup, Kim Sauvé, Denise Heffernan, Nathalie Bressa, Rosa van Koningsbruggen, Lisa Zimmermann, and Samuel Huron. 2025. In Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '25). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 43, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3689050.3704415

Squishy Yet Satisfying: Exploring Deformable Shapes' Cross-Modal Correspondences with Colors and Emotions

Cameron Steer, Kim Sauvé, Anika Jain, Omosunmisola Ibukunoluwa Lawal, Michael J Proulx, Crescent Jicol, and Jason Alexander. 2024. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3613904.3641952

Edo: A Participatory Data Physicalization on the Climate Impact of Dietary Choices

Kim Sauvé, Pierre Dragicevic, and Yvonne Jansen. 2023. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569009.3572807

Ecorbis: A Data Sculpture of Environmental Behavior in the Home Context

Brigitte Stegers, Kim Sauvé, and Steven Houben. 2022. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '22). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533508

Put a Label On It! Approaches for Constructing and Contextualizing Bar Chart Physicalizations

Kim Sauvé, Argenis Ramirez Gomez, and Steven Houben. 2022. In Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '22). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3501952

Physecology: A Conceptual Framework to describe Data Physicalizations in their Real-World Context

Kim Sauvé, Miriam Sturdee, and Steven Houben. 2022. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI). 29, 3, Article 27 (June 2022), 33 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3505590

Reconfiguration Strategies with Composite Data Physicalizations

Kim Sauvé, David Verweij, Jason Alexander and Steven Houben. 2021. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21). ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445746

LOOP: Exploring Physicalization of Activity Tracking Data

Kim Sauvé, Saskia Bakker, Nicolai Marquardt, and Steven Houben. 2020. In Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society (NordiCHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 52, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3419249.3420109

Econundrum: Visualizing the Climate Impact of Dietary Choice through a Shared Data Sculpture

Kim Sauvé, Saskia Bakker and Steven Houben. 2020. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1287–1300. https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395509

A Change of Perspective: How User Orientation Influences the Perception of Physicalizations

Kim Sauvé, Dominic Potts, Jason Alexander and Steven Houben. 2020. In Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '20). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376312

LOOP: A Physical Artifact to Facilitate Seamless Interaction with Personal Data in Everyday Life

Kim Sauvé, Steven Houben, Nicolai Marquardt, Saskia Bakker, Bart Hengeveld, Sarah Gallacher, and Yvonne Rogers. 2017. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference Companion Publication on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’17 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 285–288. https://doi.org/10.1145/3064857.3079175

Data Physicalization in the Wild (editorial)

Kim Sauvé, Hans Brombacher, Annemiek Veldhuis, Rosa van Koningsbruggen, Jason Alexander, and Steven Houben. 2024. Special Issue: Data physicalization in the wild. Behaviour & Information Technology. 43(14), 3321–3324. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2024.2412413

LOOP

Kim Sauvé and Steven Houben. 2022. Book chapter in Making with Data: Physical Design and Craft in a Data-Driven World. Samuel Huron, Till Nagel, Lora Oehlberg, and Wesley Willett (Eds.). AK Peters / CRC Press. https://makingwithdata.org

From Data to Physical Artifact: Challenges and Opportunities for Designing Physical Data Artifacts for Everyday Life

Kim Sauvé and Steven Houben. 2022. ACM Interactions Magazine Feature. https://doi.org/10.1145/3511670

Craft-Based Data Physicalization: Opportunities and Challenges

Bahare Bakhtiari, Foroozan Daneshzand, Kim Sauvé, Nathalie Bressa, Samuel Huron, Lora Oehlberg, Sheelagh Carpendale, Sowmya Somanath, and Charles Perin. 2026. In Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '26). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 931, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1145/3772363.3778766

Bring Your Own Biodata (BYOB): Feminist, Corporeal and Collective Approaches to Datafied Bodies

Beatrice Vincenzi, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Alejandra Gómez Ortega, Kim Sauvé, Laura Forlano, Derya Akbaba, Edda Forero, Samuel Thulin, Pedro Sanches, and Kit Kuksenok. 2025. In Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 57–60. https://doi.org/10.1145/3715668.3734162

Envisioning a Research Agenda for Input Visualization

Nathalie Bressa, Samuel Huron, Wesley Willett, Evanthia Dimara, Kim Sauvé, Derya Akbaba. 2025. IEEE Visualization 2025, Vienna, Austria.

Physicalization from Theory to Practice: Exploring Contemporary Challenges for Physicalization Design

Kim Sauvé, Hans Brombacher, Rosa van Koningsbruggen, Annemiek Veldhuis, Steven Houben, and Jason Alexander. 2024. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 368–371.https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3658381

Are Conferences Sus?: Fostering Conversations on the Sustainability of HCI Conferences Through Data Physicalization

Sarah Hayes, Martin Valdemar Anker Lindrup, Rebecca Noonan, Lisa Zimmerman, Denise Heffernan, Kim Sauvé, Nathalie Bressa, Samuel Huron, and Trevor Hogan. 2024. In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '24). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 57, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3623509.3634742

ZeroWaste Physkit: Fostering Sustainable Data Physicalization Education and Prototyping

Sarah Hayes, Rebecca Noonan, Denise Heffernan, Trevor Hogan, Kim Sauvé, and Martin Lindrup. 2023. Information+ Conference 2023

Physicalization from Theory to Practice: Exploring Physicalization Design across Domains

Kim Sauvé, Hans Brombacher, Rosa van Koningsbruggen, Annemiek Veldhuis, Steven Houben, and Jason Alexander. 2023. In Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '23). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 360, 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3573824

From Prototype to Product: Scaling the Adoption of Data Physicalizations with LOOP

A Reflection on Haptics in Light of Interactive Systems Transcending the Digital-Physical Modality

Towards an Ecology of Interconnected Data Devices

Kim Sauvé and Steven Houben. 2021. CHI'21 workshop Human-Data Interaction through Design