Organisers

KYLE MONTAGUE

Kyle Montague is an Associate Professor at Northumbria University and leads the NorSC Research Group. His research spans a breadth of topics and domains with the unifying vision - to address critical social problems and challenges by designing and configuring digital technologies that empower individuals and marginalised communities. More specifically, his work seeks to democratise access to the tools and processes by which we provision technologies and services that shape society.

AUSTIN TOOMBS

Austin Toombs is an Associate Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, where he leads the Community-Computer Interaction Lab (C-CIL). His research interests center on the impact that digital technologies have on how communities and relationshps are formed and maintained, with a focus on designing technologies that better-support everyday forms of implicit care.

COLIN GRAY

Colin M. Gray is an Associate Professor in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at Indiana University Bloomington, where they are Director of the Human-Computer Interaction design (HCI/d) program. Their research focuses on the ways in which the pedagogy and practice of designers informs the development of design ability, particularly in relation to ethics, design knowledge, and learning experience. Colin's work crosses multiple disciplines, including human-computer interaction, instructional design and technology, law and policy, and design theory and education.

PAUL PARSONS

Paul Parsons is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Graphics Technology at Purdue University. His research is at the intersection of design, visualization, and cognition. He combines multiple human-centered approaches to investigate the nature of professional practice in sociotechnical settings and to design artifacts and experiences to improve such practice. Paul's current research projects focus on: design practice and design cognition relating to data visualization and user experience; macrocognition in complex sociotechnical settings, especially relating to data-driven decision making; and user experience for scientific cyberinfrastructure. 

MATT WOOD

Matt Wood is an Assistant Professor in Computer and Information Sciences, where he is a researcher in Human Computer Interaction. He often employs creative and playful modalities into his research, much of which has been around digital sexualities which was the focus of his PhD thesis at the EPSRC Centre of Doctoral Training in Digital Civics at Open Lab, Newcastle University. He is currently the programme leader for the UKRI Centre of Doctoral Training in Citizen Centred AI (CCAI) at Northumbria University  

REEM TALHOUK

Reem Talhouk is an Assistant Professor in the School of Design and Centre for International Development at Northumbria University. She is also the co-lead of the Design Feminisms Research Group that aims to explore the plurality of feminist research and design. Her research has explored ways through which participatory design and its outputs may generate decolonial counter-narratives within the humanitarian and global development technological space. She has led research, workshops and SIGs focused on Technology, Design and Migration.

TETYANA VLASOVA

Tetyana Vlasova is a project manager for DCitizens project. Her areas of interest are International Education, International Projects Activity, and the Bologna Process. She is an experienced project manager and having managed 12 Tempus/Erasmus funded by EU, 6 British Council projects, 1 academic project funded by the Office for Students, 1 educational project funded by the Department for Education, 2 HORIZON programme projects . She is currently employed at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle and managing HORIZON 2023 project (DCitizens) and coordinating activity of CCAI CDT project funded by UKRI.

DAN JACKSON

Dan Jackson is a Senior Research Software Engineer within Computer and Information Sciences at Northumbria University. As part of a cross-disciplinary research environment, he collaborates on the development of research systems and prototypes, engineering solutions for projects that use a diverse range of technologies.  His primary research interests are with human-computer interaction with a recent focus on the areas of ubiquitous/pervasive computing and technologies that support health and wellbeing.

Luis Carvalho

Luis is a PhD student in Computer Science at Northumbria University, where he explores the root causes of web accessibility through an epidemiological lens. His research explores risk-based approaches to understanding how web technologies impact web accessibility at scale. With a background in software engineering and human-computer interaction, Luis has contributed to projects spanning health technologies, wearables, and digital inclusion. He has led the development of systems supporting people with Parkinson’s disease and collaborated with NGOs addressing homelessness.