Vasilis Vlachokyriakos
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 place-based, participatory and action-led research, aiming at the development of systems for cooperative decision-making and service provision (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 infrastructuring of the Social and Solidarity Economy in Europe (e.g. see CHI 2018 methods paper and CHI 2017 design manifesto paper); the design of inclusive and socially just Solidarity Economy Platforms (e.g. PhD candidate projects [V.N., A.T. and S.A.]); and the designing of social digital innovation in Lebanon (e.g. Sarah Armouch's PhD project).
As part of this research agenda, I am a co-investigator for the H2020 “Generative European Commons Living Lab” (Ge.CO Living Lab), a co-investigator of the EPSRC Digital Economy Research Center (DERC) and of our newly awarded EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens – Next Stage Digital Economy Centre; 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 a number ACM conferences, of the Participatory Design conference and of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
For more information see my Google Scholar and Newcastle University profiles.
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
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)