Dan Richardson
Digital Civics Doctoral Trainee
I’m a postgraduate researcher and software engineer with a passion for co-developing mobile technologies within communities and schools. Using participatory design, I engage with stakeholders to produce and deploy mobile applications and full-stack web technologies which aim to empower them as citizens.
My research focus is around how mobile learning technologies can be used to better surface and utilise the civic value of places, and empower the communities which give them meaning. My PhD project, OurPlace, is a mobile platform which supports the creation, sharing and completion of highly customisable mobile learning activities. OurPlace aims to explore how approachable mobile learning technologies can support stakeholders in creating their own bespoke, interactive resources to share their values and knowledge with others.
My time at Open Lab has also involved supporting NHS patients in self-monitoring their skin conditions, producing applications which assist in speech and language therapy, and helping Red Cross volunteers voice their concerns about the future of their institution.
Configuring a framework for Project-Based Mobile Learning
OurPlace: an app for learning about people and places
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2020
Usability testing of MySkinSelfie: a mobile phone application for skin self?monitoring
2020 – Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
We are the Greatest Showmen: Configuring a Framework for Project-Based Mobile Learning
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)
2018
Stammerapp: Designing a mobile application to support self-reflection and goal setting for people who Stammer
2018 – Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18)
ParkLearn: Creating, sharing and engaging with place-based activities for seamless mobile learning
2018 – Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct (MobileHCI '18)
2017
Exploring Public Places as Infrastructures for Civic M-Learning
2017 – 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
2016
Speeching: Mobile Crowdsourced Speech Assessment to Support Self-Monitoring and Management for People with Parkinson’s
2016 – CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems