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Rob Anderson

Rob Anderson

Senior Research Software Engineer

rob.anderson@ncl.ac.uk

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I have a background in computers and technology. My role in Open Lab is to design, build and deploy apps and websites for various research projects and to administer internal systems to help other researchers. I'm particularly interested in creating accessible and engaging interactions and experimenting with new technologies.

Some of my projects include:

  • MozFest 2021 - The schedule interface for Mozilla Festival 2021
  • Climate Red - An online climate conference hosted by the IFRC
  • Iris Msg - An SMS donation platform for greek solidarity movements
  • This website – Open Lab's public website
  • Not-Equal Catalyst - A system for viewing project proposals backed by Trello and Google Forms
  • whatfutures.org - A global future-forecasting game ran through WhatsApp
  • make.place - A mapping platform for digital consultations

Away from the Lab, I enjoy designing and making my own games and experimenting with Raspberry Pis.

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IFRC climate:red virtual climate summit

Digital Sustainability
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Metro Futures: Co-designing the future of Tyne and Wear Metro

Design Futures
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Let's Talk Parks: creating collaborative spaces to envision and transform public parks services

Design Futures
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Connecting volunteers with community needs in Lebanon

Digital Health
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WhatFutures: engaging youth volunteers using WhatsApp

Design Futures
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Gabber: Collaboratively record and analyse audio conversations

Digital Social Innovation
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H2020 gE.CO Living Lab: Tools for generating commons

Digital Social Innovation
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Not-Equal: Exploring social justice in the digital economy

Digital Social Innovation
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Spokespeople: helping cyclists record incidents on the road

Digital Health
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Make Place: an open-source mapping and survey tool

Design Futures

2020

Metro Futures: Experience-Centred Co-Design at Scale

Bowen Simon Wright Peter Wilson Alexander Dow Andy Bartindale Tom Anderson Rob

2020 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3313831.3376885

2019

Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research

Crivellaro C Anderson R Lambton-Howard D Nappey T Olivier P Vlachokyriakos V Wilson A Wright P

2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Open website 10.1145/3310284

WhatFutures: Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp

Lambton-Howard D Anderson R Montague K Garbett A Hazeldine S Alvarez C Sweeney J Olivier P Kharrufa A Nappey T

2019 – 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3290605.3300389

Gabber: Supporting Voice in Participatory Qualitative Practices

Rainey J Montague K Briggs P Anderson R Nappey T Olivier P

2019 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Open website 10.1145/3290605.3300607

2018

Spokespeople: Exploring Routes to Action through Citizen-Generated Data

Maskell T Crivellaro C Anderson R Nappey T Araujo-Soares V Montague K

2018 – Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18)

Open website 10.1145/3173574.3173979

Streets for People: Engaging Children in Placemaking Through a Socio-technical Process

Peacock S Anderson R Crivellaro C

2018 – Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Open website 10.1145/3173574.3173901

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