Vasilis Vlachokyriakos (he/him)
Reader
I am a Reader of Human-Computer Interaction and Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University, School of Computing and the founder of Open Lab Athens. I have a background in Computing Science with a MSc (Hons) in Computer Security and Resilience and a PhD in HCI (E-Voting as a tool for Political Participation).
My current work centres on designing novel socio-technical infrastructures for civic participation through Community-led Participatory and Action Research, aiming at the development of systems for collaborative/cooperative decision-making (i.e. CSCW and PD research and practice).
Example ongoing projects include: the utilisation of emerging technologies (AR, crypto-wallets, social and location-based technologies etc.) for the cooperative production of public services (e.g. CO3 project); the creation of technological and legal toolkits for generative commons (e.g. GE.CO project); the infrastructur-ing of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Europe (e.g. see CHI 2018 methods paper and CHI 2017 design paper); the design of inclusive and socially just Solidarity Economy Platforms (e.g. see CSCW 2021 paper); and the designing of social digital innovation in Lebanon (e.g. CSCW 2022 paper).
As part of this research, I have been co-investigator of the EPSRC Digital Economy Research Center (DERC), of our EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens – Next Stage Digital Economy Centre, and our [EPSRC Agency project] (https://gow.epsrc.ukri.org/NGBOViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/W032481/1). I have also been active in securing EU funding, for example in the H2020 “Generative European Commons Living Lab” (Ge.CO Living Lab), while also been the principal investigator of Open Lab Athens for the H2020 “Digital Disruptive Technologies to co-create, co-produce and co-manage Open Public Services” (CO3) project.
I am also a reviewer and program committee member of several premium ACM conferences, such as ACM CHI, CSCW and FAccT, while also served as Paper Chair for the Participatory Design conference and General Chair for the EUSSET European CSCW conference.
Evaluating ActuAir: Building Occupants' Experiences of a Shape-Changing Air Quality Display
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Civic Probes: a method for designing civic technologies with communities
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Understanding occupants’ experiences in quantified buildings
Exploring the Role of Paradata in Digitally Supported Qualitative Co-Research
Findings from a Longitudinal Situated Display Deployment
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Let's Talk Parks: creating collaborative spaces to envision and transform public parks services
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Unplatformed Design: Appropriating social media for coordinated participation
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Designing for employee voice
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Connecting volunteers with community needs in Lebanon
H2020 gE.CO Living Lab: Tools for generating commons
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PosterVote: a low-cost electronic voting system for communities and activists
2024
Socio-digital Rural Resilience: An Exploration of Information Infrastructures Within and Across Rural Villages During Covid-19
2024 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Post-mortem information management: exploring contextual factors in appropriate personal data access after death
2024 – Human-Computer Interaction
Civic Probes: A Method That Embeds Questions of Civic Infrastructure and Participation
2024 – Interactions
Evaluating ActuAir: Building Occupants' Experiences of a Shape-Changing Air Quality Display
2024 – CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24)
Design Implications for a Social and Collaborative Understanding of online Information Assessment Practices, Challenges and Heuristics
2024 – Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
2023
Understanding occupants’ experiences in quantified buildings: results from a series of exploratory studies
2023 – 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’23)
Supporting innovation in a context of uncertainty: the role of design and technology
2023 – The 11th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T) (C&T ’23)
Living labs for civic technologies: a case study. Community infrastructuring for a volunteer firefighting service
2023 – Frontiers in Public Health
Exploring Digital Communication Needs of Local Communities and Self-organized Collectives
2023 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Responsible AI and the Smart Home Environment: A Multidisciplinary Overview of Issues, Challenges, and Solutions
2023 – International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2023)
Responsible AI and the smart home environment: A multidisciplinary overview of issues, challenges and solutions
2023 – 12th International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2023)
2022
Making Community: Lessons learned from researching digital technologies
2022 – Open Lab, Newcastle University
Revolting from Abroad: The Formation of a Lebanese Transnational Public
2022 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2021
Designing Sharing Economy Platforms through a ‘Solidarity HCI’ lens
2021 – ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
Designing Sharing Economy Platforms through a 'Solidarity HCI' lens
2021 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
Research with a Solidarity Clinic: Design Implications for CSCW Healthcare Service Design
2021 – Computer Supported Cooperative Work
Sustaining a networked community resource: Findings from a longitudinal situated display deployment
2021 – CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Contact Zones: Designing for More-than-Human Food Relations
2021 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2020
Materialising activism through HCI research
2020 – 2020 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Unplatformed Design: A Model for Appropriating Social Media Technologies for Coordinated Participation
2020 – CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Designing for Employee Voice
2020 – Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.
2019
Infrastructuring public service transformation: Creating collaborative spaces between communities and institutions through HCI research
2019 – ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Infrastructuring Food Democracy: The Formation of a Local Food Hub in the Context of Socio-Economic Deprivation
2019 – Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
2018
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)
Simple nudges for better password creation
2018 – Proceedings of the 32nd International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2018)
2017
Surfacing Small Worlds through Data-In-Place
2017 – Computer Supported Cooperative Work: CSCW: An International Journal
WheelieMap: An Exploratory System for Qualitative Reports of Inaccessibility in the Built Environment
2017 – MobileHCI 2017 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
HCI, solidarity movements and the solidarity economy
2017 – CHI'17 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
2016
Refugees and HCI SIG: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis
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
Re-Making Places: HCI, 'Community Building' and Change
2016 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016
Designing the Vote: An Exploration of Electronic Voting as a tool for Political Participation [PhD Thesis]
2016 – Newcastle University
2015
Crowdsourcing and CCTV: the Effect of Interface, Financial Bonus and Video Type
2015 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Designing Alternative Systems for Local Communities
2015 – CHI EA '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Data-in-Place: Thinking through the Relations Between Data and Community
2015 – 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15)
Designing Engaging Data in Communities
2015 – 33rd Annual Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI EA '15
2014
BallotShare: Exploring the design space of digital voting in a workplace environment
2014 – School of Computing Science Technical Report Series
BallotShare: An exploration of the design space for digital voting in the workplace
2014 – Computers in Human Behavior
PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activism
2014 – ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'14)
Introduction to the special issue on designing social media for change
2014 – Computers in Human Behavior
Understanding the experience-centeredness of privacy and security technologies
2014 – 2014 New Security Paradigms Workshop NSPW '14
2013
Unpicking the design space of e-Voting for Participation.
2013 – International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government 2013 (CeDEM2013)
2012
Cheque Mates: Participatory Design of Digital Payments with Eighty Somethings
2012 – ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12)