Cayla Key
Everyday Living: Towards A More Open Design of Trusted Things
Cayla Key is a design researcher interested in the interplay between humans and smart home technologies. Believing they shape our interactions with ethical implications, she is interested in using the OpenDoTT project to critically understand the edges and traces of these relationships across their lifecycle from ideation to creation, consumption to disposal, repair and reappropriation.
Her work for the last several years has focused on breaking open the normative assumptions attached to the very term “home” and in turn the homogeneity of current domestic IoT approaches and values.
She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design from the University of Washington, USA. She has published and showcased works in international journals and conferences.
Names of supervisors: Nick Taylor, Jon Rogers
Cayla Key