CarryOn: Reimagining Carrier Access & Use for Urban Shoppers
Direct responsibilities:
Co-author, Design research, User research.
Hands-on contributions:
Problem framing & prioritisation, Participatory design work, Prototyping, Write-up & publication.
About the project:
Peer-reviewed publication in the Companion Publication of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26). The work reimagines how urban shoppers access and use carrier bags, exploring more sustainable carrying behaviours in everyday city shopping. Authored with collaborators at UCLIC, University College London.
Publication
CarryOn: Reimagining Carrier Access & Use for Urban Shoppers. Junyu Wei, Justin Lim, Carson Brown, Luis D'Introno, and Larissa Guenther. 2026. In Companion Publication of the 2026 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '26 Companion), pages 687–695. ACM, New York, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.1145/3802974.3810889
Venue
DIS '26 — the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference — is a leading venue for interaction design and design research, bringing together researchers and practitioners exploring the design of interactive systems and experiences.
Overview
The project investigates carrier access and use for urban shoppers: how people obtain, reuse, and carry bags while shopping in cities, and how design might encourage more sustainable carrying behaviours. The research was conducted with collaborators at UCLIC, University College London.
Read the full paper on the ACM Digital Library using the link above.