Leaky Cups: Tinkering with Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI

Cayla Key; Cally Gatehouse; Stevie Koepp; Nick Taylor

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Leaky Cups: Tinkering with Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI

Cayla Key, Cally Gatehouse, Stevie Koepp, Nick Taylor

School of Design Arts and Creative Industries

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This paper offers new perspectives for More-Than-Human (MTH) design and Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) by rethinking technoscientific logics of temporality. To do this, we draw on alternative logics such as Hydrofeminism, interlocutor and autobiographical accounts, and Leaky Cups—a set of willfully dysfunctional data-enabled artefacts that leak in response to local water data. In doing so, it repositions more-than-human agency not as a passive conduit merely mediating human experiences but as a force capable of creating change and ethics through non-progressivist care labor. By engaging with these ideas, this work critiques and disrupts normative assumptions about progress, openness, fluidity, and objectivity in MTH research and design, and presents productive tensions that challenge dominant temporal frameworks.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Editors	Naomi Yamashita, Vanessa Evers, Koji Yatani, Xianghua (Sharon) Ding, Bongshin Lee, Marshini Chetty, Phoebe Toups-Dugas
Place of Publication	New York, NY, United States
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1-17
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Print)	9798400713941
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714108
Publication status	Published - 26 Apr 2025
Event	CHI '25: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Yokohama, Japan Duration: 26 Apr 2025 → 1 May 2025 http://chi2025.acm.org/

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Conference	CHI '25: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Yokohama
Period	26/04/25 → 1/05/25
Internet address	http://chi2025.acm.org/

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Key, Cayla ; Gatehouse, Cally ; Koepp, Stevie et al. / Leaky Cups: Tinkering with Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. editor / Naomi Yamashita ; Vanessa Evers ; Koji Yatani ; Xianghua (Sharon) Ding ; Bongshin Lee ; Marshini Chetty ; Phoebe Toups-Dugas. New York, NY, United States : ACM, 2025. pp. 1-17

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Key, C, Gatehouse, C, Koepp, S & Taylor, N 2025, Leaky Cups: Tinkering with Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI. in N Yamashita, V Evers, K Yatani, X Ding, B Lee, M Chetty & P Toups-Dugas (eds), CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems., 408, ACM, New York, NY, United States, pp. 1-17, CHI '25: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan, 26/04/25. https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3714108

Leaky Cups: Tinkering with Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI. / Key, Cayla; Gatehouse, Cally; Koepp, Stevie et al.
CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ed. / Naomi Yamashita; Vanessa Evers; Koji Yatani; Xianghua (Sharon) Ding; Bongshin Lee; Marshini Chetty; Phoebe Toups-Dugas. New York, NY, United States: ACM, 2025. p. 1-17 408.

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Key C, Gatehouse C, Koepp S, Taylor N. Leaky Cups: Tinkering with Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI. In Yamashita N, Evers V, Yatani K, Ding X, Lee B, Chetty M, Toups-Dugas P, editors, CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. New York, NY, United States: ACM. 2025. p. 1-17. 408 Epub 2025 Apr 25. doi: 10.1145/3706598.3714108

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