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Abigail Durrant

Abigail Durrant

Co-Director of Open Lab

abigail.durrant@newcastle.ac.uk

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I am Professor of Interaction Design and Co-Director of Open Lab, predominantly working as a designer, researcher and educator in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I’m also Co-Director for EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics, and I sit on the Directorate for EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens (CDC) and Newcastle University Centre of Research Excellence for Children and Youth.

I am also the University’s lead for the Digital Health Theme of the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR), collaborating with eight Northern UK universities to enhance skill sharing and training opportunities.

My research addresses the significant design challenges that we face for managing selfhood and wellbeing in our everyday interactions with digital technologies and personal data. I have explored the digital representation of Self in the contexts of: health and care; family relationships; children’s free play; major life transitions and transitional experience; memorialisation and legacy planning; cultural visiting; human rights media management; and personal identity management.

I am particularly interested in the health implications of managing a digitally-mediated Self. I am Newcastle University lead for Well Citizen Challenge Area of CDC, and Co-I for EPSRC AGENCY: Assuring Citizen Agency in a World with Complex Online Harms (EP/W032481/2). I was Principal Investigator for EPSRC INTUIT: Interaction Design for Trusted Sharing of Personal Health Data to Live Well with HIV (EP/R033900/1), completed Autumn 2022. I have also been Co-I on EPSRC Playing Out with IOT (EP/P025544/2), exploring children’s free play with Internet of Things; Co-I for EPSRC Digital Personhood: Charting the digital lifespan (EP/L00383X/1).

I teach Interaction Design on the MSc course in HCI and supervise and mentor UG, PGT and PGR students.

My work is grounded in participatory, co-creative and research-through-design approaches, working closely with key stakeholders to define and conduct research. I am Steering Committee member for the Research Through Design (RTD) Conference series and actively engage in a number of academic service roles in the HCI and Design Research fields, and with the Higher Education Academy for best practice.

Please view my Google Scholar profile for latest publications.

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Place-based approach for providing community mental wellbeing

Digital Health
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Investigating Daily Practices of Self-care to Inform the Design of Supportive Health Technologies for Living and Ageing Well with HIV

Digital Health
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INTUIT Interaction design for trusted sharing of personal health data to live well with HIV

Digital Health

2023

‘Keeping our Faith alive’: Investigating Buddhism practice during COVID-19 to inform Design for the online community practice of Faith

Claisse C Durrant AC

2023 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

2022

A ‘Planning Revolution’ or an ‘Attack on Planning’ in England: Democratisation, Digitisation and Digitalisation

Boland P McHenry J McKay S Durrant A Wilson A

2022 – International Planning Studies

Open website 10.1080/13563475.2021.1979942

Tangible Interaction for Supporting Well-being

Claisse C Umair M Durrant A Windlin C Karpashevich P Höök K Tsaknaki V Sanches P Sas C

2022 – CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts

Open website 10.1145/3491101.3503716

Investigating Daily Practices of Self-care to Inform the Design of Supportive Health Technologies for Living and AgeingWell with HIV

Claisse C Kasadha B Stumpf S Durrant AC

2022 – CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3491102.3501970

Collecting and sharing self-generated health and lifestyle data: Understanding barriers for people living with long-term health conditions – a survey study

Brown R Coventry L Sillence E Blythe J Stumpf S Bird J Durrant AC

2022 – Digital Health

Open website 10.1177/20552076221084458

2021

Patient-generated data in the management of HIV: a scoping review

Hewitt C Lloyd KC Tariq S Durrant A Claisse C Kasadha B Gibbs J

2021 – BMJ Open

Open website 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046393

Co-Creative Visual Poetic Inquiry for communicating lived experience of HIV self-management and self-care

Claisse C Kasadha B Durrant AC

2021 – Design for Health

Open website 10.1080/24735132.2021.1983247

Understanding the Barriers and Facilitators to Sharing Patient-Generated Health Data Using Digital Technology for People Living With Long-Term Health Conditions: A Narrative Review

Simpson E Brown R Sillence E Coventry L Lloyd K Gibbs J Tariq S Durrant AC

2021 – Frontiers in Public Health

Open website 10.3389/fpubh.2021.641424

2020

Crafting Critical Heritage Discourses into Interactive Exhibition Design

Claisse C Petrelli D Ciolfi L Dulake N Marshall MT Durrant AC

2020 – CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3313831.3376689

Co-creating poetry for communicating individuals’ emotional experience of living with HIV

Claisse C Kasadha K Durrant A

2020 – Design4Health

Open website

Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security Considerations for Designing a Peer Data Sharing Platform Between People Living With HIV

Bussone A Kasadha B Stumpf S Durrant AC Tariq S Gibbs J Lloyd KC Bird J

2020 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3415244

2019

Understanding, capturing, and assessing value in collaborative design research

Whitham R Moreton S Bowen S Speed C Durrant A

2019 – CoDesign

Open website 10.1080/15710882.2018.1563194

2017

Transitions in Digital Personhood: Online Activity in Early Retirement

Durrant A Kirk D Trujillo-Pisanty D Moncur W Orzech L Schofield T Elsden C Chatting D Monk A

2017 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17)

Open website 10.1145/3025453.3025913

On Speculative Enactments

Elsden C Chatting D Durrant AC Garbett A Nissen B Vines J Kirk DS

2017 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3025453.3025503

2016

Understanding the Sociality of Experience in Mobile Music Listening with Pocketsong

Kirk D Durrant A Wood G Leong T Wright P

2016 – Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2016)

Open website 10.1145/2901790.2901874

The value of designers' creative practice within complex collaborations

Bowen S Durrant A Nissen B Bowers J Wright P

2016 – Design Studies

Open website 10.1016/j.destud.2016.06.001

Understanding the Sociality of Experience in Mobile Music Listening with Pocketsong

Kirk DS Durrant A Wood G Leong TW Wright P

2016 – 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2016

Open website 10.1145/2901790.2901874

2015

Developing a Dialogical Platform for Disseminating Research through Design

Durrant A Vines J Wallace J Yee J

2015 – Constructivist Foundations

Open website

2014

Interpersonal expression in the special educational needs classroom: An experience-centred design case study

Durrant A Hook J McNaney R Williams K Smith T Stockman T Olivier P

2014 – International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1016/j.ijcci.2014.06.002

A Study of the Challenges Related to DIY Assistive Technology in the Context of Children with Disabilities

Hook J Verbaan S Durrant A Olivier P Wright P

2014 – DIS Companion '14

Open website 10.1145/2598510.2598530

2013

Design to Support Interpersonal Communication in the Special Educational Needs Classroom

Durrant A Hook J McNaney R Williams K Smith T Kipling M Olivier P Stockman T

2013 – IDC 2013: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children

Open website 10.1145/2485760.2485778

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