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Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor

Senior Lecturer

nick.taylor@newcastle.ac.uk

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I am a Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction working at the intersection of design, technology and society. My research attempts to understand the impact of emerging technologies and practices, and to imagine, prototype and explore possible preferable futures around those technologies.

My research has most commonly involved the use of technology in neighbourhoods, communities and public spaces. This has included public displays and physical computing to support civic engagement, and supporting people in harnessing technology for themselves through DIY and maker approaches. I have also been involved in a number of projects exploring emerging issues around the Internet of Things and how we might design for healthier relationships between people, things and the internet. Across this work I have employed a range of participatory approaches from speculative design to long-term deployments of functioning prototypes ‘in the wild’.

I have a background in Computer Science with a PhD from Lancaster University, although I have spent much of my academic career in design schools. After a previous stint at Newcastle as a postdoctoral research, I have held academic positions in design schools at the University of Dundee and Northumbria University.

Project Title

Walking and Talking: Place-based Data Collection and Mapping for Participatory Design with Communities

Vasileios Ntouros Nick Taylor Clara Crivellaro
Project Title

BinCam: designing for reflection and social persuasion to promote sustainable lifestyles

Anja Thieme Rob Comber Nick Taylor

2025

pegBits: Experimenting with a 0.1" system for open hardware prototyping

Rogers J Marshall J Wallace J Metcalfe T Taylor N Raj R Verkerk J Heslop P

2025 – TEI '25: Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3689050.3705978

Leaky Cups: Tinkering with Hydrofeminist Temporalities for HCI

Key C Gatehouse C Koepp S Taylor N

2025 – CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3706598.3714108

2024

Data Probes: Reflecting on Connected Devices with Technology-Mediated Probes

Taylor N Chatting D Rogers J

2024 – TEI '24: Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3623509.3633380

“The Gallery is Ephemeral”: Exploring the Intersection of Archival Practice and Technology in Artist-Run Initiatives

McMurchy G Taylor N

2024 – C&C '24: Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Creativity & Cognition

Open website 10.1145/3635636.3656208

Designing with Friction: Inverting Notions of Seamless Technology

Sheahan J Chatting D Collins R Bley J Eriksson A Taylor N Rozendaal MC

2024 – NordiCHI '24 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3677045.3685504

2023

Walking and Talking: Place-based Data Collection and Mapping for Participatory Design with Communities

Prost S Ntouros V Wood G Collingham H Taylor N Crivellaro C Rogers J Vines J

2023 – DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Open website 10.1145/3563657.3596054

U-Sense: Feasibility Study of "Human as a Sensor" in Incident Reporting Systems in a Smart Campus

Abu Abah N Taylor N Morisset C Mehrnezhad M

2023 – IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW 2023)

Open website 10.1109/EuroSPW59978.2023.00075

Speculative machines exploring contemporary data futures

McMurchy G Taylor N Skelly M

2023 – CHI 2023 Workshop on Data as a Material for Design: Alternative Narratives, Divergent Pathways, and Future Directions

Open website

The Reappearing Computer

Taylor N Chatting D Rogers J

2023 – Newcastle University; Northumbria University; PETRAS

Open website

2022

Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI

Key C Gatehouse C Taylor N

2022 – DIS '22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference

Open website 10.1145/3532106.3533540

2021

Proceed with care: Reimagining home IoT through a care perspective

Key C Browne F Taylor N Rogers J

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

Open website 10.1145/3411764.3445602

Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT

Taylor N Rogers J Clarke L Skelly M Wallace J Thomas P George B Raj R Shorter M Thorne M

2021 – DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021

Open website 10.1145/3461778.3462037

2019

Introduction to this Special Issue on Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing

Green DP Fuchsberger V Taylor N Bjørn P Kirk D Lindtner S

2019 – Human–Computer Interaction

Open website 10.1080/07370024.2019.1591960

2016

Reflections on Deploying Distributed Consultation Technologies with Community Organisations

Johnson I Vines J Taylor N Jenkins E Marshall J

2016 – CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2858036.2858098

2015

Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities

Vlachokyriakos V Comber R Crivellaro C Taylor N Kuznetsov S Kavanaugh A Le Dantec C Kim BJ

2015 – CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2702613.2702657

2014

BallotShare: Exploring the design space of digital voting in a workplace environment

Vlachokyriakos V Dunphy P Taylor N Comber R Olivier P

2014 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Open website

Exploring delegate engagement with an augmented conference

Taylor N Bartindale T Vines J Olivier P

2014 – UbiComp '14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Open website 10.1145/2632048.2632068

BallotShare: An exploration of the design space for digital voting in the workplace

Vlachokyriakos V Dunphy P Taylor N Comber R Olivier P

2014 – Computers in Human Behavior

Open website 10.1016/j.chb.2014.04.024

PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activism

Vlachokyriakos V Comber R Ladha K Taylor N Dunphy P McCorry P Olivier P

2014 – ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'14)

Open website 10.1145/2598510.2598523

The Department Of Hidden Stories: Playful Digital Storytelling for Children in a Public Library

Wood G Vines J Balaam M Taylor N Smith T Crivellaro C Mensah J Limon H Challis J Anderson L Clarke A Wright PC

2014 – 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2556288.2557034

2013

Leaving the Wild: Lessons from Community Technology Handovers

Taylor N Cheverst K Wright P Olivier P

2013 – CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/2470654.2466206

Unpicking the design space of e-Voting for Participation.

Vlachokyriakos V Dunphy P Taylor N Comber R Olivier P

2013 – International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2013 (CeDEM2013)

2012

Viewpoint: Empowering Communities with Situated Voting Devices

Taylor N Marshall J Blum-Ross A Mills J Rogers J Egglestone P Frohlich D Wright P Olivier P

2012 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12)

Open website 10.1145/2207676.2208594

StoryCrate: Tabletop Storyboarding for Live Film Production

Bartindale T Sheikh A Taylor N Wright P Olivier P

2012 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12)

Open website 10.1145/2207676.2207700

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