News
December, 24: ACI 2024
More than Human Digital Civics
November, 24: Interactions Article
The article "Scent & Space: Navigating Smell Interactions in Public, Private, and Virtual Spaces" was published in the November/December issue of the Interactions Magazine
October, 24: NORDICHI 2024
September, 24: Smell Above All
I was invited to speak about embedding citizens into research projects at the Smell Above All: Where Scent meets the nose event at UCL.
July, 24: DCitizens Summer School
May, 24: DCX 2024
The Digital Civics Exchange 2024, a 10 day student design sprint and international knowledge exchange event at Northumbria dcx.events
May, 24: DComX 2024
Hosting and Organising a Pre-CHI event at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. DComX 2024
January, 24: Dr. Carter
Successfully defended my PhD Viva with minor corrections, with external marker Clara Crivellaro and Internal marker Julian Hough.
July, 23: DIS23 Workshop
July, 23: DIS23 Student Volunteer
Completed Student Volunteering at DIS 2023
July, 23: Google, Boson
Invited to visit the Google Office to experience the UXR team in Boston, hosted by Tiffany Knearem.
June, 23: Call for Participation
Have a demo or want to explore multi sensory interactions? Join us for our hybrid Scent InContext workshop on July 10th at DIS 2023 in Pittsburgh, PA. Submissions due by May 28th! Click here for details: hcibook.net
June, 23: EICS 2023
Local Chair and Demo & Poster Chair for the EICS 2023 Conference held in Swansea, UK.
May, 23: Call for Participation
I’ll be co-hosting a long-needed workshop on blended experiences at the ACM IMX 2023 in Nantes. We invite researchers from both academia and the industry to submit a short position paper on the theme of Blended Experiences. More details, including what format to use and how to submit, can be found on the workshop’s website: blendedexperiences.com
March, 23: International Women's Day
Attending the Technocamps Gala for International Women's Day, Swansea, UK.
September, 22: Festival of Ideas
General Co-Chair, and Demo & Poster Chair for the Festival of Ideas 2022 at Swansea University.
June, 22: AVI22 Paper Presentation
June, 22: Summer of Hope Keynote Address
Invited Keynote Speech at the Summer of Hope Event in Morecambe Bay. Focussing on technologies affect on sense of space within city centres across the COVID pandemic.
May, 22: Visiting Researcher Placement
Began a visiting research placement at UCL within the UCLIC team with Marianna Obrist.
May, 22: Google, San Francisco
Invited to visit the Google Office and UXR team in San Fransisco, hosted by Elizabeth Churchill
May, 22: Public Engagement Award
Received an award for Outstanding Contribution to Public Engagement from the Postgraduate Research Awards 2022
May, 22: CHI22 Case Study Presentation
May, 22: CHI Paper
Can't Touch This: Rethinking Public Technology in a COVID-Era.
Received an Honourable Mention Award
April, 22: Masters Graduation
Graduating with Distinction from the EPSRC CDT Masters in Enhancing Human Interactions with Data Driven Systems (Delayed from 2020 due to COVID)
March, 22: InContext Workshop Prep
InContext CHI 22 Workshop Preparations visit at Lancaster University with Miriam Sturdy and Alan Dix
March, 22: International Women's Day
Attended the International Women's Day Gala, hosted by Technocamps in Swansea, UK
March, 22: Invited Talk
February, 22: Call for Participation
We are hosting a workshop aiming to support the futuring of user experience and user interfaces at CHI 22, and will engage with stakeholders, practicing designers, researchers, students and educators in order to understand better the needs for next-generation design tools.
May, 21: Festival of Ideas
Co-Panelist on the Festival of Ideas Digital Heritage Event
May, 21: EduCHI 21 Symposium
Where, Who, Why? Tools to Encourage Design InContext, Workshop Paper at EduCHI21
April, 21: Call for Participation
UX professionals, educators and students needed for a study investigating the design of new prototyping software. We are running 4 workshops over the next month, please visit hcibook.net for details and the sign-up link!
March, 21: Technocamps Workshops
Completed eight workshops with students across South Wales about interesting new technologies for our cities of the future.