About

I am a Computer Scientist (PhD and MSc) working in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Interaction Design research.

My work explores Arts-based Methods in HCI, with a focus on drawing, (visual) storytelling and dance. I am interested in arts as an embodied way of knowing and meaning-making from ideation to dissemination, for the researcher and the researched during the whole design and research process. As a new lens on what we can easily put into words, as a way to express what is 'only' on the tip of our tongue and as a way to make seen and heard things we cannot express otherwise.

I currently work as a Consultant and as a Visiting Researcher at Open Lab, Newcastle University, where I previously was an Innovation Fellow researching 'Ageless Digital Citizens' at the Centre for Digital Citizens. Click on the links to see the projects I was involved in.

I am also an Educator, teaching and supervising on an under- and postgraduate level. I have experience in running traditional and flipped classroom courses as well as master classes. Courses I taught on include Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design, Designing Interactive Systems, Collaborative Systems, Computer Systems Architecture and System Requirements & Design.

And I have expertise as a programmer, designer and research consultant in electronically-mediated dance, digital behavioural interventions for children with autism, joint attention and gaze in human-robot interaction, open innovation and serious games, digital games research as well as active and receptive media work.

Interests

• Creative and Arts-based Methods including visual methods, drawing, storytelling, storymapping, dance
• Participatory and Co-Design Methods
• Arts in HCI
• First Person/Autobiographical Research Methods
• Software Design and Engineering
• Graphic Facilitation, Visualisation of Data/Information/Knowledge
• Comics Studies
• Death and Bereavement Studies
• Psychology (emotion, personality, identity, self, autism)
• Speech and Language Therapy (aphasia)