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Colin Watson

Colin Watson

Doctoral Trainee

c.watson8@newcastle.ac.uk

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My research interests are digital exclusion related to national and local government services and the effects on individuals and communities.

In my MRes Digital Civics project I examined how to help citizens make better use of resource-limited advice and support appointments. In particular I studied how to assist claimants of the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) health/disability benefit gather more accurate and impartial health assessment information to support their claims. This involved co-designing PIP Kit with service users and practitioners, comprising digital and non-digital components, to help people recollect and discuss how health conditions affect their own daily lives and mobility.

My PhD is examining the role of formal and informal intermediaries who assist and support citizens to access e-government (digital) welfare benefit services.

Prior to Open Lab, I have worked in manufacturing, engineering design, software development and information security. I undertake voluntary work for a charity and local community groups.

Project Title

Smartphone Data and Public Health Emergencies: Understanding people’s attitudes to extracting personal smartphone data

Digital Health
Project Title

HCI HAZOP: A systematic method to identify harms in socio-technical systems

Inclusive Design
Project Title

UCX: Enhancing digital welfare public services with independent website augmentation

Inclusive Design
Project Title

PIP Kit: Using lifelogging to support disability benefit claimants

Digital Social Innovation

2021

HCI - H is also for Hazard: Using HAZOP to Identify Undesirable Consequences in Socio-Technical Systems

Watson C Kharrufa A

2021 – ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies 2021 (ACM COMPASS '21)

Open website 10.1145/3460112.3471959

Tensions and Mitigations: Understanding Concerns and Values around Smartphone Data Collection for Public Health Emergencies

Watson C Ali R Smeddinck JD

2021 – 24th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2021)

Open website 10.1145/3476071

2020

PIP Kit: An Exploratory Investigation into using Lifelogging to support Disability Benefit Claimants

Watson C Kirkham R Kharrufa A

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

Open website 10.1145/3313831.3376215

Unconsented Data Transfusions: Attitudes Towards Extracting Personal Device Data for Public Health Emergencies

Watson C Smeddinck JD

2020 – Mensch und Computer 2020

Open website 10.1145/3404983.3409994

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