PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS

"AI is Soulless": Hollywood Film Workers' Strike and Emerging Perceptions of Generative Cinema. Brett A. Halperin and Daniela K. Rosner. 2025. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 32, 2, Article 19 (April 2025).

Underground AI? Critical Approaches to Generative Cinema through Amateur Filmmaking. Brett A. Halperin, Diana Flores Ruíz, and Daniela K. Rosner. 2025. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.

From Camera-Eye to AI: Exploring the Interplay of Cinematography and Computational Visual Storytelling. Brett A. Halperin and Stephanie M. Lukin. 2025. In Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.

Resistive Threads: Electronic Streetwear as Social Movement Material. Brett A. Halperin, William Rhodes, Kai Leshne, Afroditi Psarra, and Daniela K. Rosner. 2024. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 69–85. Honorable Mention 🎖 (Top 5%).

Artificial Dreams: Surreal Visual Storytelling as Inquiry Into AI 'Hallucination.' Brett A. Halperin and Stephanie M. Lukin. 2024. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 619–637.

Prototyping Jewish Ritual Objects: Wearable Affordances for Intention and Connection. Ian Gonsher, Rebecca Michelson, and Brett A. Halperin. 2024. In Proceedings of the Halfway to the Future Symposium (HttF '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 27, 1–5.

Probing a Community-Based Conversational Storytelling Agent to Document Digital Stories of Housing Insecurity. Brett A. Halperin, Gary Hsieh, Erin McElroy, James Pierce, and Daniela K. Rosner. 2023. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 304, 1–18. Best Paper Award 🏆 (Top 1%).

Envisioning Narrative Intelligence: A Creative Visual Storytelling Anthology. Brett A. Halperin and Stephanie M. Lukin. 2023. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 240, 1–21.

What is in the Cards: Exploring Uses, Patterns, and Trends in Design Cards. Gary Hsieh, Brett A. Halperin, Evan Schmitz, Yen Nee Chew, and Yuan-Chi Tseng. 2023. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 765, 1–18.

Miracle Machine in the Making: Soulful Speculation with Kabbalah. Brett A. Halperin and Daniela K. Rosner. 2023. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1740–1756.

Temporal Tensions in Digital Story Mapping for Housing Justice: Rethinking Time and Technology in Community-Based Design. Brett A. Halperin and Erin McElroy. 2023. In Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2469–2488.

Meta-Summaries Effective for Improving Awareness and Understanding of Covid-19 Vaccine Safety Research. Spencer Williams, Joy Lee, Brett A. Halperin, Joshua M. Liao, Gary Hsieh, and Katharina Reinecke. 2022. Nature Scientific Reports, 12(1), 19987.

OTHER ARCHIVAL PUBLICATIONS

From Dead-Ends to Dialogue: Third Workshop on Design Research & GenAI. Willem van der Maden, Vera van der Burg, Brett A. Halperin, Petra Jääskeläinen, Peter Kun, Derek Lomas, Timothy Merritt, Joseph Lindley, Pavel Okopnyi, Frode Guribye, Maria Luce Lupetti, and Jichen Zhu. 2025. In Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 42-46.

Diving Into the Ocean of Religious and Spiritual Design Research. Alexandra Kitson, Brett A. Halperin, C. Estelle Smith, Franzisca Maas, Michael J Hoefer, Sara Wolf, and Elizabeth Buie. 2025. In Companion Publication of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 47-51.

Crafting Computational Counter-Media: Spatial Story Design of Housing (In)justice and Archival Challenges. Brett A. Halperin. 2025. Radical Housing Journal 7(1), pp. 111-117.

Death of the Design Researcher? Creating Knowledge Resources for Designers Using Generative AI. Willem van der Maden, Evert van Beek, Vera van der Burg, Brett A. Halperin, Petra Jääskeläinen, Eunsu Kang, Peter Kun, Derek Lomas, Timothy Merritt, Joseph Lindley, Michael Muller, Iohanna Nicenboim, and Jichen Zhu. 2024. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 396-400.

(Un)designing AI for Mental and Spiritual Wellbeing. C. Estelle Smith, Alemitu Bezabih, Diana Freed, Brett A. Halperin, Sara Wolf, Caroline Claisse, Jingjin Li, Michael Hoefer, and Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat. 2024. In Companion Publication of the 2024 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW '24 Companion). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 117-120.

Navigating Intersections of Religion/Spirituality and Human-Computer Interaction. Robert B. Markum, Franzisca Maas, Sara Wolf, Brett A. Halperin, Caroline Claisse, and Elizabeth Buie. 2024. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI '24 Adjunct). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 38, 1–4.

To Screenshot or Not to Screenshot? Tensions in Representing Visual Social Media Platform Posts. Joseph S. Schafer, Brett A. Halperin, Sourojit Ghosh, and Julie Vera. 2024. Paper presented at AoIR2024: The 25th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. Sheffield, UK: AoIR.

Airbrush Hyperfabric: Designing Interactive Storytelling Fabric Connected to Motion Graphics and Music. Brett A. Halperin. 2022. Interactions 29, 3 (May - June 2022), 8-9.