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  1. On Arrival: Challenges and Opportunities Around Early-Stage Resettlement of Refugees in Australia

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  2. Building New Clubhouses: Bridging Refugee and Migrant Women into Technology Design and Production by Leveraging Assets

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, May 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sonali Hedditch, Dhaval Vyas

  3. Self-Care Practices in the Context of Older Adults Living Independently

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  4. Refugee Entrepreneurial Trajectories

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas, Chuike Lee

  5. The Pragmatics of Sustainable Unmaking: Informing Technology Design through e-Waste Folk Strategies

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Samar Sabie, Dhaval Vyas

  6. Democratizing Making: Scaffolding Participation Using e-Waste to Engage Under-resourced Communities in Technology Design

    Article • April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  7. Crossing the Threshold: Pathways into Makerspaces for Women at the Intersectional Margins

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas, Sonali Hedditch, Sonali Hedditch

  8. "It's Just Like doing Meditation"

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  9. Design Justice in Practice

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Sonali Hedditch, Dhaval Vyas

  10. Engaging with Under-Resourced Communities for User Research through Self-Authored Videos

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  11. Shedding Ageist Perceptions of Making: Creativity in Older Adult Maker Communities

    Article • June 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    India Anderson, Dhaval Vyas

  12. Towards a Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Challenges in Refugee Re-settlement

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, January 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  13. A Gendered Perspective on Making from an Autoethnography in Makerspaces

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas, Sonali Hedditch, Sonali Hedditch

  14. Critical Moments: Supporting Homeless Journeys Through Design

    Article • May 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas, Rashmi Chandra

  15. Exploring Entrepreneurial Activities in Marginalized Widows

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, April 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  16. Magic Machines for Refugees

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  17. Rebuilding Social Capital in Refugees and Asylum Seekers

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  18. Altruism and Wellbeing as Care Work in a Craft-based Maker Culture

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, December 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas

  19. Making at the Margins

    Article • Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, November 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dhaval Vyas