Organisers

Jacob Sheahan is a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Design Informatics. His research focuses on enhancing networks of care in later life, particularly the health and social factors that shape ageing-in-place, employing collaborative and constructive design methods.

David Chatting is an Innovation Fellow in the Centre for Digital Citizens at Newcastle University. He is an experienced interaction designer who confronts technical systems through a process he describes as designerly hacking to find alternative design spaces and to make compelling new experiences. 

Robert Collins is an Irish artist, designer, and a PhD researcher in Contestable Design at the Umeå Institute of Design. His work explores the inherent noise and saturation of information in contemporary society through speculative objects and software. 

Jessica Bley is a UX Designer at the Volvo Cars, previously part of Autonomous Drive, working at the Safe Experience centre with HMI and driver interaction with autonomous drive, mainly from a safety perspective.

Alexander Eriksson is a Technical Expert in Human Performance & Experience at Volvo Cars, with a PhD in Human Factors in Automated Driving.

Marco C Rozendaal is an associate professor of Interaction Design at TU Delft’s Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering in the Netherlands, where he directs the Expressive Intelligence Lab. His research straddles multiple disciplines and combines practical, critical, and methodological perspectives in his practice with a background in interactive media, design, and engineering. 

Nick Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction at Newcastle University, working at the intersection of design, technology and society. My research attempts to understand the impact of emerging technologies and practices and to imagine, prototype and explore possible preferable futures around those technologies.