Matthew Wood
Digital Civics Doctoral Trainee
I have a background in Psychology and Health Psychology, which I approach from a critical and social perspective.
The majority of my work is around Digital Sexualities. I am interested in how digital technology intercepts with sexual identity, and particularly how young people navigate this. A great deal of my research is around user-centered design with young people, exploring how to appropriately incorporate their perspectives into the design of digital technology. My previous research has looked at young people’s perspectives on school based sex education, and how lesbian, gay and bisexual christians position themselves in relation to the homophobia of the christian church.
I also have specific interests and commitments to qualitative research, particularly thematic analysis, design methods and innovative research methods.
Consumerist, mundane, and uncanny futures with sex robots
C-Card Condom Finder app
2020
"And This, Kids, Is How I Met Your Mother": Consumerist, Mundane, and Uncanny Futures with Sex Robots
2020 – Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - CHI ’20
2019
Targeting of tolerogenic dendritic cells to heat-shock proteins in inflammatory arthritis
2019 – Journal of Translational Medicine
2018
"Protection on that erection?": Discourses of accountability & compromising participation in digital sexual health
2018 – CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2017
"They're Just Tixel Pits, Man": Disputing the 'Reality' of Virtual Reality Pornography through the Story Completion Method
2017 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
"They're Just Tixel Pits, Man": Disputing the 'Reality' of Virtual Reality Pornography through the Story Completion Method
2017 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Sex talk: Designing for sexual health with adolescents
2017 – IDC 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Sex talk: Designing for sexual health with adolescents
2017 – IDC 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children
Situated dissemination through an HCI workplace
2017 – CHI '17 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2015
Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex
2015 – CHI PLAY 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
Talk about sex: Designing games to acilitate healthy discussions around sex
2015 – CHI PLAY 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play