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Research Areas

Research in HCID covers a broad range of topics and approaches and contexts.


  1. The study of individual and social issues arising from and surrounding information and communication technologies.

  2. The development of design methods that enable us to engage with people and communities and explore new technological possibilities.

  3. The design of innnovative digital technologies that use existing and novel approaches in response to real-world needs and opportunities.

We conduct our studies within a wide variety of contexts from the workplace to urban city farms. We aim to develop understandings of these settings and the unique issues and concerns that arise in them. In these studies, our emphasis is on the role technology plays or might play, and where there is scope for rethinking the relations between the social and technical.

Projects

Group of people in a circle around a tree
Mosaic
A person holding a smartphone looking at a digital map
DARA
Virtual world scene with an outdoor presentation, featuring an audience seated in chairs around a campfire, two large screens, and autumn-coloured trees in the background.
EVA Park
A smartphone showing a virtual bank card on a table
Economic Abuse
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