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Dan Lambton-Howard

Dan Lambton-Howard

Alumni

d.howard2@newcastle.ac.uk

Bio Projects Publications

I am a game designer and researcher. My research focuses on the use of game design practice for facilitating discourse, conveying complex information and supporting participatory processes.

Projects I have worked on range from running a ‘real-time’ global strategic foresight game with the 4000+ young volunteers from the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, played entirely through WhatsApp; to designing developing and delivering and fully immersive ‘pop-up’ escape room for conveying humanitarian strategy; to designing and delivering peer-support systems for extreme weight-loss as part of diabetes management in Barbados.

A significant strand of my research involves the creative appropriation of existing social media technologies – unplatformed design – and its application to real world problems.


I also make games!
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Designing a Social Media-Based Peer Support System

Digital Health
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Supporting the Northumbria Police and Crime Plan 2021 - 2025

Design Futures
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Let's Talk Parks: creating collaborative spaces to envision and transform public parks services

Design Futures
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Unplatformed Design: Appropriating social media for coordinated participation

Educational Technology
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Immersive humanitarian escape room: Disseminating strategy in a new way

Design Futures
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It’s Our Future: putting young people at the centre of building their future

Design Futures
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WhatFutures: engaging youth volunteers using WhatsApp

Design Futures

2021

‘Social media is their space’: student and teacher use and perception of features of social media in language education

Lambton-Howard D Kiaer Jieun Kharrufa A

2021 – Behaviour & Information Technology

Open website 10.1080/0144929X.2020.1774653

Blending into Everyday Life: Designing a Social Media-Based Peer Support System

Lambton-Howard Daniel Simpson Emma Quimby Kim Kharrufa Ahmed Hoi Ming Ng Heidi Foster Emma Olivier Patrick

2021 – CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445079

2020

Unplatformed Design: A Model for Appropriating Social Media Technologies for Coordinated Participation

Lambton-Howard D Olivier P Vlachokyriakos V Celina H Kharrufa A

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

Open website 10.1145/3313831.3376179

TalkFutures: Supporting Qualitative Practices in Distributed Community Engagements

Rainey Jay Carlos Alvarez de la Vega Juan Richardson Dan Lambton-Howard Daniel Armouch Sara Bartindale Tom Hazeldine Shaun Briggs Pamela Olivier Patrick Montague Kyle

2020 – Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)

Open website 10.1145/3357236.3395531

2019

Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research

Crivellaro C Anderson R Lambton-Howard D Nappey T Olivier P Vlachokyriakos V Wilson A Wright P

2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3310284

WhatFutures: Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp

Lambton-Howard D Anderson R Montague K Garbett A Hazeldine S Alvarez C Sweeney J Olivier P Kharrufa A Nappey T

2019 – 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3290605.3300389

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