Pete Wright
Emeritus Professor
I worked in Open Lab for over nine years, and recently retired in September 2019.
My background is in applied psychology, and I am particularly interested in how people interact with digital technologies and how digital technology can be used to help individuals and communities to live and work together. This involves not only studying how people use existing digital technologies to achieve things that matter to them, but also how designers, developers, and engineers can work with individuals, communities, and organisations to build systems that better meet their needs and give them a stronger voice in the design of the systems that affect their lives.
Over the years I have had a range of research projects spanning health, education, culture, community and civic participation. My main areas of my research are:
- Theory and methods for human-centred design Participatory design and social innovation
- Participatory media and civic engagement
When I am not at work I am most likely to be found mountain walking, rock climbing, or motorbike riding.
Let's Talk Parks: creating collaborative spaces to envision and transform public parks services
The complex dynamics of diverse practises at Maker Faire
Journeycam: Exploring experiences of accessibility and mobility among powered wheelchair users
Data:In Place: Making open data work for communities
Sense my Street: A toolkit for data-driven change
Seamless Seams: Machine sewing shape-changing and colour changing threads
Ambient Kitchen
2021
Cyclical experience-based design: A proposal for engaging stakeholders in a co-creative model for primary health care service design
2021 – International Journal of Health Planning and Management
2019
Engineering the flagellar type III secretion system: Improving capacity for secretion of recombinant protein
2019 – Microbial Cell Factories
Behavioural intervention for weight loss maintenance vs. standard weight advice in adults with obesity: a randomised controlled trial in the UK (NULevel Trial)
2019 – PLoS Medicine
Seamless Seams: Crafting Techniqutes for Embedding Fabrics with Interactive Actuation
2019 – 2019 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '19)
Engineering Pathways in Central Carbon Metabolism Help to Increase Glycan Production and Improve <em>N</em>-Type Glycosylation of Recombinant Proteins in <em>E. coli</em>
2019 – Bioengineering
Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research
2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Cross-cultural Understanding of Chinese Traditional Puppetry: Integrating Digital Technology to Enhance Audience Engagement
2019 – The International Journal of Intangible Heritage
JourneyCam: Exploring Experiences of Accessibility and Mobility among Powered Wheelchair Users through Video and Data
2019 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2019)
Supporting the Cross-cultural Appreciation of Traditional Chinese Puppetry Through a Digital Gesture Library
2019 – ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage
2018
Enabling participation of people with Parkinson's and their caregivers in Co-inquiry around collectivist health technologies
2018 – Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18)
Infrastructuring the Solidarity Economy: Unpacking Strategies and Tactics in Designing Social Innovation
2018 – Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18)
Media of things: Supporting the production of metadata rich media through IoT sensing
2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
A Schnittmuster for crafting context-sensitive toolkits
2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Accountability work: Examining the values, technologies and work practices that facilitate transparency in Charities
2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Decorating public and private spaces: Identity and pride in a refugee camp
2018 – CHI EA '18 Human Factors in Computing Systems
ActuEating: Desiging, Studying and Exploring Actuating Decorative Artefacts
2018 – DIS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Enhancing the Appreciation of Traditional Chinese Painting Using Interactive Technology
2018 – Multimodal Technologies and Interaction
Making open data work for civic advocacy
2018 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Neighbourhood Data: Exploring the Role of Open Data in Locally Devolved Policymaking Processes
2018 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2017
Our Year with the Glass: Expectations, Letdowns and Ethical Dilemmas of Technology Trials with Vulnerable People
2017 – Interacting with Computers
Commentary: Making Interactivity Meaningful for Contemporary HCI
2017 – Human-Computer Interaction
Enhancing Personal Informatics Through Social Sensemaking
2017 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Performing Research: Four Contributions to HCI
2017 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17)
Care and Connect: Exploring Dementia-Friendliness Through an Online Community Commissioning Platform
2017 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Enabling Polyvocality in Interactive Documentaries through "Structural Participation"
2017 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Do-It-Yourself Empowerment as Experienced by Novice Makers with Disabilities
2017 – 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Cinehacking Cape Town - Embracing informality in pursuit of high quality media
2017 – CHI '17 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HCI, solidarity movements and the solidarity economy
2017 – CHI'17 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
2016
Scaffolding Community Documentary Film Making Using Commissioning Templates
2016 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 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
Anti-Solutionist Strategies: Seriously Silly Design Fiction
2016 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016
Digital Civics: Citizen empowerment with and through technology
2016 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016
A Real-Time IVR Platform for Community Radio
2016 – Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 16)
Understanding the Sociality of Experience in Mobile Music Listening with Pocketsong
2016 – Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2016)
Situated Encounters with Socially Engaged Arts in Community-based Design
2016 – Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2016)
Re-Making Places: HCI, 'Community Building' and Change
2016 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016
TryFilm: Situated Support for Interactive Media Productions
2016 – The 19th ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2016)
The value of designers' creative practice within complex collaborations
2016 – Design Studies
An iTRAQ characterisation of the role of TolC during electron transfer from <em>Shewanella oneidensis</em> MR-1
2016 – Proteomics
Understanding the Sociality of Experience in Mobile Music Listening with Pocketsong
2016 – 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2016
Situated Encounters with Socially Engaged Art in Community-Based Design
2016 – 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2016
Re-configuring Participatory Media for Citizen Elders in Urban Planning
2016 – Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Media Architecture Biennale
Virtual.Cultural.Collaboration - Mobile phones, video technology, and cross-cultural learning
2016 – Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016
2015
An Age-Old Problem: Examining the Discourses of Ageing in HCI and Strategies for Future Research
2015 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI)
Authenticity, Relatability and Collaborative Approaches to Sharing Knowledge about Assistive Living Technology
2015 – ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015)
The beginnings, middles and endings of participatory research in HCI: An introduction to the special issue on 'perspectives on participation'
2015 – International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Taking [A]Part: The Politics and Aesthetics of Participation in Experience-Centred Design
2015 – Design Thinking, Design Theory
Exploring gesture sonification to support reflective craft practice
2015 – CHI 2015 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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
Contesting the City: Enacting the political through digitally supported urban walks
2015 – CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Bootlegger: Turning Fans into Film Crew
2015 – CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Beyond Participatory Production: Digitally Supporting Grassroots Documentary
2015 – Proceedings of the 33rd annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2015
MyRun: Balancing Design for Reflection, Recounting and Openness in a Museum-based Participatory Platform
2015 – British HCI 2015
The NULevel trial of a scalable, technology-assisted weight loss maintenance intervention for obese adults after clinically significant weight loss: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
2015 – Trials
The politics and aesthetics of participatory HCI
2015 – Interactions
Making Magic: Designing for Open Interactions in Museum Settings
2015 – C&C '15 SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition
2014
"Which Brew are you Going to Choose?" An interactive 'Tea-Decider-er' in a Teahouse Shop Window
2014 – Laval Virtual: 16th International Conferences and Exhibition of Virtual Technologies and Uses
A pool of dreams: facebook, politics and the emergence of a social movement
2014 – Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14)
<em>Nightingallery</em>: theatrical framing and orchestration in participatory performance
2014 – Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
RedTag: automatic content metadata capture for cameras
2014 – TVX '14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video
Cinejack: using live music to control narrative visuals
2014 – DIS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Experience design theatre: exploring the role of live theatre in scaffolding design dialogues
2014 – CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Department Of Hidden Stories: Playful Digital Storytelling for Children in a Public Library
2014 – 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A Study of the Challenges Related to DIY Assistive Technology in the Context of Children with Disabilities
2014 – DIS Companion '14
Volvelles, domes and wristbands: embedding digital fabrication within a visitor's trajectory of engagement
2014 – DIS'14: 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems.
Understanding the experience-centeredness of privacy and security technologies
2014 – 2014 New Security Paradigms Workshop NSPW '14
2013
Leaving the Wild: Lessons from Community Technology Handovers
2013 – CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Digital portraits: photo-sharing after domestic violence
2013 – CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
HCI in the press: online public reactions to mass media portrayals of HCI research
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
Unlimited editions: three approaches to the dissemination and display of digital art
2013 – CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Crafting interactive systems: learning from digital art practice
2013 – CHI EA 2013: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The Break-Time Barometer: An Exploratory System for Workplace Break-time Social Awareness
2013 – ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)
Configuring participation: On how we involve users in design
2013 – ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Exploring the Design of Technologies and Services that Support Do-It-Yourself Assistive Technology Practice
2013 – DE2013: The Fourth Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference
Cinehack: Supporting Micro-budget Digital Film and Video Production
2013 – DE2013: The Fourth Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference
Theory and Practice in UX Research: Uneasy Bedfellows?
2013 – CHI EA '13: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2012
Viewpoint: Empowering Communities with Situated Voting Devices
2012 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12)
StoryCrate: Tabletop Storyboarding for Live Film Production
2012 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12)
Exploring HCI's Relationship with Liveness (CHI'12 Workshop)
2012 – CHI EA 2012: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Perspectives on participation: evaluating cross-disciplinary tools, methods and practices
2012 – 9th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '12)
2011
A VJ Centered Exploration of Expressive Interaction
2011 – 29th Annual International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Designing from within: humanaquarium
2011 – 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
The Photostroller: Supporting Diverse Care Home Residents in Engaging with the World
2011 – Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)
Music in Households in the Digital Economy
2011 – Digital Engagement
Knowledge capture for self management of long-term conditions
2011 – 1st International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2011
2010
The Prayer Companion: Openness and specificity, materiality and spirituality
2010 – CHI 2010: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Experience-centred Design: Designers, users, and communities in dialogue
2010 – Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics
Understanding experience using dialogical methods - The case of serendipity
2010 – 22nd Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OZCHI)
The prayer companion: openness and specificity, materiality and spirituality
2010 – CHI '10: The SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2008
Aesthetics and experience-centered design
2008 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Technology scruples: why intimidation will not save the recording industry and how enchantment might
2008 – Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Empathy and experience in HCI
2008 – CHI 2008: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
2003
Relating the automation of functions in multiagent control systems to a system engineering representation
2003 – Handbook of Cognitive Task Design
2002
Automating functions in multi-agent control systems: supporting the decision process
2002 – Components of System Safety: Proceedings of the Tenth Safety-critical Systems Symposium
2001
THEA: A technique for human error assessment early in design
2001 – Human Computer Interaction - INTERACT'01, IFIP TC.13 International Conference
An evaluation of two function allocation methods
2001 – Human Interfaces in Control Rooms, Cockpits and Command Centres: 2nd International Conference on People in Control
THEA - A Reference Guide
2001 – Department of Computer Science, University of York
2000
Analyzing Human-Computer Interaction as Distributed Cognition: the resources model
2000 – Human-Computer Interaction
Allocation of function: scenarios, context and the economics of effort.
2000 – International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
1997
Accountability of work activity in high-consequence work systems: Human error in context
1997 – International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Objectives, strategies and resources as design drivers
1997 – Human-Computer Interaction: IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)
Supporting Concepts of Operator Control in the Design of Functionally Distributed Systems
1997 – Revisiting the Allocation of Functions Issue: New Perspectives. Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Allocation of Functions
Locating the scene: The particular and the general in contexts for ambulance control
1997 – Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work: The Integration Challenge (GROUP)
1996
Designing human-system interaction using the resources model
1996 – Proceedings of the Asian-Pacific Conference on Computer - Human interaction
Distributed information resources: a new approach to interaction modelling
1996 – Cognition and the worksystem. Proceedings of the 8th European conference on cognitive ergonomics
The user context and formal specification in interactive system design
1996 – BCS-FACS Workshop on Formal Aspects of the Human Computer Interface