Research overview

“The Digital Civics CDT has had an impressive amount of research published across several top-ranked conferences.”

Rachel Pattinson

CDT Manager, Digital Civics

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Food Aid Technology: The Experience of a Syrian Refugee Community in Coping with Food Insecurity

A systematic review of the clinical-effectiveness of interventions for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy

A Grand Vision for Post-Capitalist HCI: Digital Life Assistants

Using Design Fiction to Explore the Ethics of VR ‘In the Wild’

Parklearn: creating, sharing and engaging with place-based activities for seamless mobile learning

Vocalising Violence: Using Violent Mens' Voices for Service Delivery and Feedback

What Happens to Digital Feedback?: Studying the Use of a Feedback Capture Platform by Care Organisations

Human-Data Interaction has two purposes: Personal Data Control and Life Information Exploration

Enhancing Personal Informatics Through Social Sensemaking

Contextualise! personalise! persuade!: a mobile HCI framework for behaviour change support systems

Do-It-Yourself Empowerment as Experienced by Novice Makers with Disabilities

Free Data Interfaces: Taking Human-Data Interaction to the Next Level

The Partnership Quilt: Project Report

Revolting from Abroad: the formation of a Lebanese transnational public

The Tools and Tactics Used in Intimate Partner Surveillance - Distinguished Paper Award at USENIX '20 and the Third Prize winner of the 2020 Internet Defense Prize

Contact Zones: Designing for More-than-Human Food Relations

Transport poverty and urban mobility

Urban Knitters on Interweaving Craft, Technologies and Urban Participation

A Call For Embedding Dignity In Humanitarian Technologies

Towards Participatory Video 2.0

CHInclusion: Working Toward a More Inclusive HCI Community

Sex Talk: Designing for Sexual Health with Adolescents

Hacking Women's Health

Making Community: Lessons learned from researching digital technologies, Newcastle University

Spokespeople: Exploring Routes to Action through Citizen-Generated Data

Four: Transport poverty and urban mobility

Relational, Flexible, Everyday: Learning from Ethics in Dementia Research

Refugees & HCI Workshop: The Role of HCI in Responding to the Refugee Crisis

Human-GDPR Interaction: Practical Experiences of Accessing Personal Data

Participatory, location-based systems in community place-making

The impact of digital technology on health of populations affected by humanitarian crises: Recent innovations and current gaps

Schoolchildren helped redesign a city to cut air pollution and climate warming

With an Eye to the Future: HCI Practice and Research in the Arab World1

Evaluation of emerging educational technologies in the classroom

"They're Just Tixel Pits, Man": Disputing the 'Reality' of Virtual Reality Pornography through the Story Completion Method

Research in the Wild via Performance: Challenges, Ethics and Opportunities

Gabber: Supporting Voice in Participatory Qualitative Practices

Stella, l’amie de Maimie: reflecting on the use of technologies and the Bad Client and Aggressor List

Supporting the Complex Social Lives of New Parents

Exploring the Design of Tailored Virtual Reality Experiences for People with Dementia

Human Computer Interaction & Health Activism

Talking about Chat at Work in the Global South: An Ethnographic Study of Chat Use in India and Kenya

Virtual.Cultural.Collaboration: mobile phones, video technology, and cross-cultural learning

Personal Data Use: A Human Perspective

Understanding the family perspective on the storage, sharing and handling of family civic data

Creative Participatory Techniques Nurturing Arab Youth Collective Identity and Agency

In a New Land: Mobile Phones, Amplified Pressures and Reduced Capabilities

Syrian Refugees and Digital Health in Lebanon: Opportunities for Improving Antenatal Health

Digital Citymaking: Working with Children to Imagine Better Cities for Everyone

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

Opening Research Commissioning To Civic Participation: Creating A Community Panel To Review The Social Impact of HCI Research Proposals

Exploring Public Places as Infrastructures for Civic M-Learning

Tangible Lighting Proxies: Brokering the Transition from Classroom to Stage

Web Augmentation for Well-Being: the Human-Centred Design of a Takeaway Food Ordering Digital Platform

“It's all their words, it's just not necessarily all of the words”: Balancing Authenticity and Authority in Participatory Heritage Projects

Patient-centred measurement of recovery from day-case surgery using wrist worn accelerometers: a pilot and feasibility study*

Designing ambient interactions - pervasive ergonomic interfaces for ageing well' (DAI'10)

Scaffolding Young People's Participation in Public Service Evaluation through Designing a Digital Feedback Process

Teaching Students How to Code Using Physical Computing Tools

‘Social media is their space’: student and teacher use and perception of features of social media in language education

"And This, Kids, Is How I Met Your Mother": Consumerist, Mundane, and Uncanny Futures with Sex Robots

Citizen Tagger: Exploring Social Tagging of Conversational Audio

What is participation?: emerging challenges for participatory design in globalized conditions

DemYouth: Co-Designing and Enacting Tools to Support Young People's Engagement with People with Dementia

Exploring Learning Ecologies among People Experiencing Homelessness

So-called privacy breeds evil: Narrative Justifications for Intimate Partner Surveillance in Online Forums

Thinking Outside the (Tool) Box: Exploring Empowerment Through the Design and Use of Toolkits

Participatory Media: Creating Spaces for Storytelling in Neighbourhood Planning

Implications of Synchronous IVR Radio on Syrian Refugee Health and Community Dynamics

Technology and the Politics of Mobility: Evidence Generation in Accessible Transport Activism

"We come together as one...and hope for solidarity to live on": On Designing Technologies for Activism and the Commemoration of Lost Lives

Utilizing Participant Voice in Volunteer Training

Thinking outside the (tool) box: Empowering people with toolkits

Fostering deep learning in cross-cultural education through use of content-creation tools

Trust and Abusability Toolkit: Centering Safety in Human-Data Interactions

Understanding Children's Free Play in Primary Schools

Data Contribution Summaries for Patient Engagement in Multi-Device Health Monitoring Research

Comparison of INTAKE24 (an Online 24-h Dietary Recall Tool) with Interviewer-Led 24-h Recall in 11–24 Year-Old

Applying Computational Analysis to Textual Data from the Wild: A Feminist Perspective

Field Testing of the Use of Intake24 - An Online 24-Hour Dietary Recall System

Seamless Seams: Crafting Techniques for Embedding Fabrics with Interactive Actuation

Factors important for women who breastfeed in public: a content analysis of review data from FeedFinder

An Exploration of Usefulness in Smartphone Applications

"Protection on that Erection?": Discourses of Accountability & Compromising Participation in Digital Sexual Health

Engaging Science and Engineering Students in Computing Education through Learner-Created Videos and Physical Computing Tools

PIP Kit: An Exploratory Investigation into using Lifelogging to support Disability Benefit Claimants

Accountability work: Examining the values, technologies and work practices that facilitate transparency in Charities

What does recent research in ethnicity and communication tell us about the theory and practice of communication in contemporary societies?

Design Studios for K-12 Computing Education

Micro:Vote: An Introduction to Python using the BBC micro:bit

Unconsented data transfusions: attitudes towards extracting personal device data for public health emergencies

Exploring the Impacts of Educational Simulations on The Development of 21st Century Skills and Sense of Self-Efficacy

Metro Futures: Experience-Centred Co-Design at Scale

Calm displays

Experiences of Delivering a Public Health Data Service

Trail of Hacks: Poster Co-Design as a Tool for Collaborative Reflection

Towards Understanding People’s Experiences of AI Computer Vision Fitness Instructor Apps

Printer Pals: Experience-Centered Design to Support Agency for People with Dementia

Assessing the Potential of Mini-Publics to Promote Evidence Uptake in Social Policy and Practice

Intersections in HCI, Design and Dementia: Inclusivity in Participatory Approaches

The Digital Civics CDT is made possible by EPSRC funding under the project code EP/L016176/1