Well Citizen
Advancing Ethical Practices in Participatory Design
This project aims to explore the intersection of ethics and participatory design to foster sustainable and community-driven practices in digital civics.
The Well Citizen Challenge area explores the design of supportive technologies and services for living well together. We investigate what tools and resources may be valued for achieving individual and community wellbeing, for managing health and care, and for reducing health inequalities.
Areas we’re interested in exploring:
- Exploring Personal Health Data Use
- Sustaining Community-Based Action on Health
- Addressing Health Inequalities
- Digital Support to Care Practices
Projects
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Evaluating ActuAir: Building Occupants' Experiences of a Shape-Changing Air Quality Display
With workplace buildings becoming increasingly sensor-rich environments and amidst climate change and global pandemic pressures, there is novel opportunity for utilizing climatic data within buildings for awareness and wellbeing purposes.
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ERicar: Co-creating an antenatal care information resource with Czech-Slovak Roma women
ERicar was an interdisciplinary project that combined participatory design-led inquiry together with applied health research using qualitative methods.
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Guiding treatment for eating disorders and dementia using masticatory efficiency
Many individuals experience reduced chewing efficiency, including those with eating disorders (EDs) and dementia - partially due to muscle atrophy. Despite this, chewing efficiency is overlooked by current healthcare services.
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RHED-C: Remote Healthcare for Eating Disorders during (and post) COVID-19
There is a recent push towards remote healthcare service provision, further accelerated due to the pandemic. But recent research suggests that current technologies may fall short when it comes to meeting the needs of the users.
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Place-based approach for providing community mental wellbeing
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.
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Tangible Interfaces for Well-being: A Review
Well-being has gained traction in Human-Computer Interaction research in the past decade.
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C-Card: Exploring and Developing Digital Application for Condom Distribution in the Northeast
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.
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Using AI to support healthcare decisions
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.
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Collecting individuals’ experiences of connecting through technology for practising Buddhism
This project investigates spiritual well-being in the context of being connected to others for practicing faith and spirituality.
