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September 29, 2017

Welcome to New Postdoc Clare Cullen

Welcome to Clare Cullen who joins the CRITICAL team as a postdoctoral researcher working on the EPSRC project Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning project.

August 14, 2017

I am Associate Chair at CHI’2018

I am an Associate Chair for CHI’2018 The ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

August 13, 2017

I’m on the Program Committee of the 2nd Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

I’m on the Program Committee of the 2nd workshop on “Multisensory approaches to human-food interaction” on November 13th, 2017. The workshop will be held in conjunction with the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction in Glasgow, Scotland, November 13-17, 2017. After the 1st workshop on “Multi-sensorial approaches to human-food interaction”

July 15, 2017

PhD Studentship available

PhD Studentship available to work as part of the EPSRC research project: “Crossmodal Interactive Tools for Inclusive Learning” (EP/N00616X/2). The project aim is to investigate novel multisensory learning and teaching technologies that support inclusive education for visually-impaired and sighted children in mainstream schools. We use an iterative user-centred approach combining participatory design...

June 24, 2017

[C] British HCI2017: Uncovering challenges and opportunities of including children with visual impairments in mainstream schools

Abstract: We report on a field study aimed at understanding the challenges facing inclusive education practices for children with visual impairments (VIs). We interviewed 25 practitioners and observed seven teaching sessions at three support services and mainstream schools that include children with VIs. A thematic analysis of the data highlighted...

April 24, 2017

[W] British HCI2017 Workshop: Participatory design with mixed-ability groups: co-designing with and for visually-impaired, blind and sighted people.

Abstract: We are interested in investigating how to design flexible and inclusive technology that supports in- teraction between individuals with different sensory abilities. We refer to this as crossmodal collabora- tion. In particular, we investigate technologies that engage more than one sense across modalities, such as combining graphics, data sonification and haptic...

April 24, 2017

[W] CHI2017 Workshop: HaptiSonic Artefacts: Malleable Prototypes & Audio Diaries for Designing with Visually-Impaired Practitioners

Abstract:Methods to engage users in the design process often rely on visual techniques to facilitate the expression and communica- tion of design ideas. The visual nature of these tools makes them inaccessible to people living with visual impairments. We used haptic and sonic artefacts in the form of highly mal-...

March 30, 2017

I am on the Program Committee for Audio Mostly’2017 Conference

I am part of the Program Committee for Audio Mostly’2017, an interdisciplinary conference on design and experience of interaction with sound. This year’s conference theme is “Augmented and Participatory Sound/Music Experiences”. The conference will be collocated with the 3rd Web Audio Conference (WAC) “Collaborative Audio” (21-23 August 2017), with one day, Wednesday...

February 23, 2017

HaptiSonic Artefacts: short paper accepted at CHI’2017 workshop

I will be at CHI’2017 conference, presenting a paper on HaptiSonic artefacts as part of the Things of Design workshop. The workshop explores design research, as a growing mode of research within the HCI community, and the role of the artifact in generating knowledge outcomes from research through design (RtD).