I’m Professor of Interaction Design (IXD) in Open Lab at Newcastle, predominantly working in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I sit on the CDC Directorate. Adopting co-creative methods, I manage HCI research projects on: Digital Health and Wellbeing; Digital Identity management and Cybersecurity; on Digital Cultural Heritage; Children's Self-expression through Digital, and Social Inclusion.
Email - abigail.durrant@newcastle.ac.uk
We worked with Happy Mums and other community-based organisations to explore opportunities and challenges for service design of maternal mental health services in the North East and North Cumbria.
We talked with the Well Citizen Challenge Area team about their project with the Recovery College Collective (ReCoCo), developing understanding of peer support and lived experience of mental health through visual-based and co-creation research.
As a result of the pandemic, there is a significant increase in mental health support for NHS services and the public sector is increasingly turning towards voluntary organisations to support care provision.
Well-being has gained traction in Human-Computer Interaction research in the past decade.
This project aims to explore and develop digitally delivered sexual health service in the region for adults aged 18 and over that use C-Card scheme.
AI is on its way to transform how mental health services are delivered by helping mental health professionals to better predict, deliver services, track conditions, and develop new treatments.
This project investigates spiritual well-being in the context of being connected to others for practicing faith and spirituality.
