
Caroline Claisse
Innovation Fellow
I have a background in art, graphic and interaction design. I developed my craft-based practice at the London College of Communication before graduating from the Royal College of Art where I became interested in inclusive and participatory design. Since then, I have conducted participatory research with diverse groups where I used my expertise to design tools for co-creation.
I completed my PhD at Sheffield Hallam University in 2018, where I explored the potential of craft and interactive technology for museums. My design-led research focused on engaging the local community in the process of co-creating multisensory and digitally-augmented experiences of heritage. Alongside my research, I have been teaching workshops and design-led courses at the RCA, LCC and Sheffield Hallam University.
I have also been developing exhibition and interactive design for cultural institutions such as the National Trust, English Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces. In 2015, I was awarded with “Ones to Watch, Rethinking Reality” by the Design Council and has also received funding such as grants from the Arts Council England to support my public engagement and exhibition work.
I have joined the INTUIT project in 2018 as a Research Associate to work with Prof. Abi Durrant and to explore participatory and experience-centred design work for trusted sharing of personal data when living with long-term conditions like HIV.

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
Co-Design within and between Communities in Cultural Heritage: Current and Open Questions
2023 – Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
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