John McCarthy
Visiting Professor
John McCarthy is a Professor of Applied Psychology in University College Cork, Ireland and leads the People and Technology research group there. He has over 20 years experience working in HCI in York, Limerick, and Cork. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow at Open Lab University of Newcastle UK, and has previously held a Visiting Professorship at Sodertorn University College in Stockholm, and has also had visiting research relationships with DIRC, a UK EPSRC Interdisciplinary Research Network, and the Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick.
His research is concerned with understanding the influence of emerging social, personal, and work technologies on people’s lived experience, and using that understanding to inform design of usable and enriching technologies. He has published many papers in this area and two books. The books have focused on conceptualising user experience with technology and on critically engaging with contemporary methods of experience-centred design, the design of technologies and services based on people’s relevant experience, often entailing the participation of those people in the design process as experts on their own experience. Hi current research is on the design and experience of technologies and services to support people who are vulnerable, for example older people who have difficulty coping (e.g. people with dementia) and people with health-related difficulties. This work is geared toward ensuring that technology design is oriented to what matters to people who live with it, by making lived experience a primary reality in practice and discourse on relations between people and technology.
Printer Pals: engaging with people living with dementia in a care-home setting
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2018
Ticket to talk: Supporting conversation between young people and people with dementia through digital media
2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2017
Commentary: Making Interactivity Meaningful for Contemporary HCI
2017 – Human-Computer Interaction
2016
Challenges for Designing new Technology for Health and Wellbeing in a Complex Mental Healthcare Context
2016 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016
'I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler, I'm a long way from home': The Place of Props, Music, and Design in Dementia Care
2016 – DIS '16 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
2015
Taking [A]Part: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in Experience-Centred Design
2015 – Design Thinking, Design Theory
Making the invisible visible: Design to support the documentation of participatory arts experiences
2015 – CHI 2015 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
MyRun: Balancing Design for Reflection, Recounting and Openness in a Museum-based Participatory Platform
2015 – British HCI 2015
The politics and aesthetics of participatory HCI
2015 – Interactions
2014
Enabling Empathy in Health and Care: Design Methods and Challenges
2014 – ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014) Extended Abstracts
Understanding the experience-centeredness of privacy and security technologies
2014 – 2014 New Security Paradigms Workshop NSPW '14
2013
Digital portraits: photo-sharing after domestic violence
2013 – CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Waves: exploring idiographic design for live performance
2013 – CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Configuring participation: On how we involve users in design
2013 – ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing for- and with- vulnerable people
2013 – ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2012
Food for Thought: Designing for Critical Reflection on Food Practices
2012 – Designing Interactive Systems
Exploring HCI's Relationship with Liveness (CHI'12 Workshop)
2012 – CHI EA 2012: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Invited SIG - participation and HCI: why involve people in design?
2012 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '12)
2011
A VJ Centered Exploration of Expressive Interaction
2011 – 29th Annual International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
2010
Experience-centred Design: Designers, users, and communities in dialogue
2010 – Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics