Pace Layers and Research Products

This short paper for the CHI ’25 workshop on Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, and Then What? is intended to name some of the ways our designs can encounter and manipulate different rates of change, either as an inquiry-driven Research Product or as a design proposition for an alternative. This is necessarily a work-in-progress, a form of our research thinking seeking a reflective and critical public. Having introduced our Research Through Design inquiry, we will consider the Pace Layers present in our design and influence its operation, before offering some questions to the workshop. In doing so, our intention is to broaden our conception of how our design and design research can operate in and with time.

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