For the benefit of three years down the line, when the pace of London life will likely resume to ‘business as normal’, I’m writing this post as daily routines are disrupted, relations protracted, and thoughtsContinue reading
Category: research
What we Learn When Designing with Marginalised Children
IDC 2020 Workshop 12: What we Learn When Designing with Marginalised Children (Half day, 21 June 2020 *new date: 19 June 2020* – online event) So much child computer interaction (CCI) research has focused onContinue reading
So you’re thinking of academia? – An open letter to my fellow allied health professionals
As the UK healthcare system becomes evermore fraught with cutbacks in it’s decade of austerity, many allied healthcare professionals are choosing to side-step into academia. When I first became interested in research, my aim wasContinue reading
Transcription, representation and children’s voices
A large focus of my PhD work has been on finding ways of hearing and amplifying the voices of non-speaking children with physical disabilities. Generating children’s voices that are faithful to what children wantContinue reading
A video study on AAC use in conversations
I’m so delighted to share details of my first full paper co-authored with Mina Vasalou and Mike Clarke. It’s to appear in the CHI 2018 proceedings and has been awarded an honourable mention. Continue reading
A focus on values
Over recent years, child computer interaction (CCI) research has pushed the agenda for interaction design, embedding the contributions of children throughout the design process. Researchers are teasing out and critiquing the roles thatContinue reading
Ethics & integrity – How do we make it meaningful?
Judging from the nature of this post, you’ll probably gather that I’m reflecting on how to plan and carry out research that is ethical. The bigger challenge is being able to reflect this process inContinue reading
Researching with, not for.
In this post, I had intended to sum up my views on why AAC design research should start to involve children who are direct beneficiaries of AAC technologies. It has long been established that childrenContinue reading
Levelling the playing field
It would be fairly naïve to assume that I could easily master a new language, with a totally different linguistic system, at the ripe old age of thirty something without lots of trial and massesContinue reading
The story so far
Encouraging children to take on any form of technology can be tricky for so many reasons. A quick search for computers for kids brings up hundreds, thousands of choices which compete for our attention. EachContinue reading