Using Experience-Centred Design and Tangible Interactions to Enhance Maternal-Child Interactions
I am going to use participatory design methods in my PhD research in order to understand parents and young children’s age 0 …
Using Toolkits and Participatory Design to address issues within Digital Civics
Introduction: Within this blog post I aim to discuss two main areas of Human Computer Interaction which I previously investigated throughout the …
Empowerment through Making?
This blog post is about empowerment through making and DIY practices – or at least it seeks to critically review such claims …
Cyberactivism in HCI
Cyberactivism in HCI Overview The ubiquity of technology around us made it urgent to create digital …
Applying HCI principles to create the next generation of music production tools
In this blog post I am going to argue that music mixing tools need to be redesigned. They are no longer just …
How HCI addresses the challenges of children-driven Parent Involvement in school
Introduction What notions of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) are the most interesting to me, and how they have strong implications for my …
Participatory Design and Experience Based Design With Refugees: Lessons Learnt
Context and Experience During Previous Research There are currently over 1.1 million Syrian refugees in need of healthcare services from an already …
Mental Health Matters: Rising to the Challenge
In this blog post I will discuss my personal research interests and how these link to the Digital Civics agenda and HCI …
Town Planning & HCI: Challenges of Participation
Engaging citizens in decision-making has been a widely debated topic for a number of years in town planning. Over recent years, it …
Sharing is caring: the future of civic skill sharing
Overview The rapid proliferation of social interactions online has enabled a new culture of sharing to emerge that supports citizens sharing their …
Using technology to self manage long term conditions
In this blog post on the relationship between an issue of importance in HCI and an issue of importance in digital civics …
Data from the people to the people: Combining Ubicomp with HCI for data empowerment
Prologue People live their everyday life performing different activities which are recorded by the actors themselves or using digital devices/services which collect …
Context through Metadata: Increasing understanding and trust in photo journalism through HCI
The oft-used idiom “A picture is worth a thousand words” – meaning that a single image can communicate a complex idea or …
Galleries, Games and HCI – Dan Howard
In this blog post I will be looking at how my readings in HCI have affected my overarching research interests and goals. …
How HCI can address challenges in ICT4D and Digital Civics
Intro This blog post will investigate the relationship between HCI and Digital Civics. Specifically, we will be looking at my area of …