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Dan Lambton-Howard
Digital Civics Doctoral Trainee
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.
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Designing a Social Media-Based Peer Support System
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Supporting the Northumbria Police and Crime Plan 2021 - 2025
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![Rachel Pattinson Rachel Pattinson](/assets/people-rachel-pattinson-thumb.jpg)
![Emily Barker Emily Barker](/assets/people-emily-barker-thumb.jpg)
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Let's Talk Parks: creating collaborative spaces to envision and transform public parks services
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Unplatformed Design: Appropriating social media for coordinated participation
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Immersive humanitarian escape room: Disseminating strategy in a new way
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It’s Our Future: putting young people at the centre of building their future
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![Emily Barker Emily Barker](/assets/people-emily-barker-thumb.jpg)
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WhatFutures: engaging youth volunteers using WhatsApp
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2023
Exploring Participants' Representations and Shifting Sensitivities in a Hackathon for Dementia
2023 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
2021
‘Social media is their space’: student and teacher use and perception of features of social media in language education
2021 – Behaviour & Information Technology
Blending into Everyday Life: Designing a Social Media-Based Peer Support System
2021 – CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2020
Unplatformed Design: A Model for Appropriating Social Media Technologies for Coordinated Participation
2020 – CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
TalkFutures: Supporting Qualitative Practices in Distributed Community Engagements
2020 – Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
2019
Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research
2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
WhatFutures: Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp
2019 – 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems