Rachael Garrett

I am a PhD candidate studying the intersection of design, ethics, and autonomous technologies. My PhD research focuses on the felt and embodied practice of ethics within soma design, research through design and performance-led research approaches, as well as physical or proximate interactions with autonomous technologies such as machines, robots and aerial drones. During my PhD, I have developed theoretical tools and concepts for the qualitative analysis of ethical practice, and authored award-winning research papers for top-tier human-computer interaction venues such as ACM CHI and DIS.

My work combines analytic creativity, critical feminist perspectives, and qualitative research methods to construct new ways of understanding our relationships with intelligent technologies and how we can reimagine the ways that humans and technologies share our world.

I teach on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses in user experience design and evaluation, interaction design methods, and human-computer interaction, as well as supervising master’s thesis projects in both academia and industry.

Please reach out if you would like to do a Master Thesis Project with me! You can find some of my previous students' work here.

My PhD is part of the Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software Program – Humanity and Society.

Check out our award-winning publications:
Felt Ethics: Cultivating Ethical Sensibility in Design Practice

Articulating Mechanical Sympathy for Somaesthetic Human-Machine Relations