Robert Anderson

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The Emotional Dimensions of Young Adults’ Encounters with Online Information

The platformisation of news is increasingly shaping young adults’ emotional wellbeing, presenting urgent challenges for HCI. Existing approaches prioritise control, visibility, and agency, neglecting the emotional and relational dimensions of everyday news encounters. Such frameworks tend to overlook how information e…

CSCW '225th+ AuthorCitizen Science, Physical Communities, and Civic Engagement; Citizen Science, Physical Communities, and Civic Engagement

SenseMyStreet: Sensor Commissioning Toolkit for Communities

The rise of big data and smart sensing, with the promise of more educated and informed decisions, has fuelled a shift towards more data-driven decision-making in local and national government. However, we are observing a disconnect between the people who are affected by these decisions and their access to tools and re…

CHI '20CorrespondingCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +1

Metro Futures: Experience-Centred Co-Design at Scale

This paper discusses how characteristics of experience-centred and collaborative design can be translated to larger scales. We describe Metro Futures, a region-wide public consultation on the design of new light rail trains, where we followed an experience-centred co-design approach supported by digital media and tool…

CHI '192nd AuthorConversational Chatbots +1

WhatFutures: Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp

WhatsApp, as the world's most popular messaging application, offers significant opportunities for improving the reach and effectiveness of engagement projects. In collaboration with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) we designed WhatFutures, a collaborative future forecasting e…

CHI '194th AuthorParticipatory Design +2

Gabber: Supporting Voice in Participatory Qualitative Practices

We describe the iterative design, development and learning process we undertook to produce Gabber, a digital platform that aims to support distributed capture of spoken interviews and discussions, and their qualitative analysis. Our aim is to reduce both expertise and cost barriers associated with existing technologie…

CHI '183rd AuthorMicromobility (E-bike, E-scooter) Interaction +2

Spokespeople: Exploring Routes to Action through Citizen-Generated Data

This paper presents insights from a collaboration with cycling advocates and local authorities to consider how HCI can open productive spaces for citizens to contribute to the realization of social goals. We worked with members of a walking and cycling advocacy organization to explore the potential for technology-medi…

CHI '182nd AuthorBest PaperCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +1

Streets for People: Engaging Children in Placemaking Through a Socio-technical Process

In this paper, we present a socio-technical process designed to engage children in an ongoing urban design project—Streets for People—in Newcastle, UK. We translated urban design proposals developed by residents and the local authority to enable children to contribute ideas to the project. Our process comprised three…

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