Martin Porcheron

Martin Porcheron is a Director, UK at Bold Insight, where he leads user-experience and human-factors research. His current work spans messaging, payments, interactive AI, and medical devices. He holds a PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of Nottingham (2019), and previously spent two years as a Lecturer in Computer Science at Swansea University. His research includes the everyday and social use of smartphones and smart speakers, conversational and voice-interface design, accessible and healthcare technologies, and human-robot interaction. He co-founded the ACM Conversational User Interfaces (CUI) conference series and the Halfway to the Future symposium, and served as General Chair for CUI 2023 and HttF 2019. Personal website Bold Insight profile Horizon CDT profile

• Current | Bold Insight | Director, UK
  • Leads user-experience and human-factors projects across exploratory research, interactive AI, healthcare, and medical-device work. The company profile currently lists him as Director; older 2023–2025 public materials describe him as a Senior User Experience Researcher.
• 2020–2022·Swansea University·Lecturer in Computer Science
  • Worked on the design and evaluation of interactions with AI technologies in domestic and UK healthcare settings.

• 2019·University of Nottingham·PhD in Human-Computer Interaction
  • Thesis: Understanding Conversation Around Technology Use in Casual-Social Settings. The work used ethnographic and ethnomethodological approaches to study smartphones, voice-controlled devices, and smart speakers in everyday social settings.

• Voice Interfaces in Everyday Life (CHI 2018), on the situated use of Amazon Echo and other voice interfaces in the home.
• RoboClean: Contextual Language Grounding for Human-Robot Interactions in Specialised Low-Resource Environments (CUI 2023).
• My publications lists his conference, journal, workshop, report, and thesis work.

• Primary sources: personal website, PhD page, publication list, Bold Insight profile, and Horizon CDT profile.
• Facts checked: 2026-09-23. The prior Google Scholar URL was rate-limited (HTTP 429) and is not treated as a confirmed account; the current profile therefore omits it.