Caroline Claisse
Lecturer
I am a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design at Open Lab, Newcastle University. I trained as a designer at the University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art in London. I completed my practice-based PhD at Sheffield Hallam University in 2019, where I explored the potential of interactive technologies for cultural heritage. My design-led research focused on engaging the local community in the process of co-creating multisensory and digitally-augmented experiences of heritage.
In my current work, I take a co-creative and Research through Design (RtD) approach to explore digital technologies and personal data for health and wellbeing. I draw from Feminist, Social Justice and More-than-Human discourses to inform my critical thinking and reflexivity. My ongoing research includes co-designing supportive technologies for self-care and self-management of health conditions; exploring data practices in peer-support and voluntary organisations for community wellbeing; addressing health inequalities in maternal mental health, and investigating the potential of multisensory interactions to support spirituality and community practice of faith.
I was a Research Associate on the EPSRC-funded project INTUIT (2019-2021) and an Innovation Fellow on the EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens (2021-2023). Across both projects, I led participatory research on Digital Health and Community Technologies, collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders.
In the past, I have led artistic projects funded by Arts Council England and worked in industry as an Interaction Designer, developing exhibition and interactive design for cultural institutions including the National Trust, English Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces in the UK, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (USA).
Please do get in touch via email or on Twitter @CarolineClaisse, and check my Google Scholar for latest publications.
Investigating Buddhism Practice during COVID-19 to Inform Design for the Online Community Practice of Faith
Place-based approach for providing community mental wellbeing
Investigating Daily Practices of Self-care to Inform the Design of Supportive Health Technologies for Living and Ageing Well with HIV
INTUIT Interaction design for trusted sharing of personal health data to live well with HIV
2023
‘Keeping our Faith alive’: Investigating Buddhism practice during COVID-19 to inform Design for the online community practice of Faith
2023 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23)
Co-Design within and between Communities in Cultural Heritage: Current and Open Questions
2023 – Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
People with long-term conditions sharing personal health data via digital health technologies: A scoping review to inform design
2023 – PLOS Digital Health
Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals and people living with HIV in dialogue: on information sharing to improve communication at the consultation
2023 – The 15th AIDSImpact Conference 2023
Unpicking Epistemic Injustices in Digital Health: On the Implications of Designing Data-Driven Technologies for the Management of Long-Term Conditions
2023 – Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society
2022
Tangible Interaction for Supporting Well-being
2022 – CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts
Investigating Daily Practices of Self-care to Inform the Design of Supportive Health Technologies for Living and AgeingWell with HIV
2022 – CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Making Together Across Space & Time: Mapping Participatory Making when Co-Designing Asynchronously and/or without Colocation
2022 – Participatory Design Conference '22
Understanding Self-care practices to live well with HIV: A phenomenological study to inform supportive technology
2022 – AIDS 2022 The 24th International AIDS Conference
2021
Patient-generated data in the management of HIV: a scoping review
2021 – BMJ Open
Exploring the data sharing ecosystem in HIV care: healthcare professionals’ beliefs and practices
2021 – 5th Joint Conference of the British HIV Association (BHIVA) & the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH)
Co-Creative Visual Poetic Inquiry for communicating lived experience of HIV self-management and self-care
2021 – Design for Health
2020
Crafting Critical Heritage Discourses into Interactive Exhibition Design
2020 – CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Co-creating poetry for communicating individuals’ emotional experience of living with HIV
2020 – Design4Health