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Professor Bill Gaver

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Department: Northumbria School of Design, Arts and Creative Industries

Bill Gaver is Professor of Design and co-leader of the Interaction Research Studio at the University of Northumbria, London. With the Studio, he has developed novel approaches for pursuing design as research over the course of numerous practice-based projects, many of which have been published and exhibited internationally. He came to Design as a lapsed psychologist and cognitive scientist with a background in HCI and Politics and long-standing engagements with Sociology and STS. This has allowed him to make distinctive contributions to a portfolio of work that includes research products, methodologies and conceptual insights for and about practice-based design research, with an emphasis on ambiguity, ludic design, and emergence.

Bill Gaver

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Designing with Data: An Annotated Portfolio, Gaver, W., Boucher, A. 30 Jul 2024, In: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
  • Exploring More-than-Human Smart Cities: The Emergent Logic of a Design Workbook, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M. 3 May 2024, Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, Oxford, Oxford University Press
  • More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research, Gamboa, M., Núñez-Pacheco, C., Homewood, S., Lucero, A., Beuthel, J., Desjardins, A., Helms, K., Gaver, W., Höök, K., Forlano, L. 1 Jul 2024, DIS '24 Companion, New York, United States, ACM
  • Datacatcher, Boucher, A., Gaver, B., Ovalle , L., Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Hauenstein, M., Pennington, S. 23 Sep 2023
  • Living with Light Touch: An Autoethnography of a Simple Communication Device in Long-Term Use, Gaver, W., Gaver, F. 2 Mar 2023, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2023 (CHI23)
  • Auditory Interfaces, Serafin, S., Buxton, B., Gaver, W., Bly, S. 3 Aug 2022
  • Emergence as a Feature of Practice-based Design Research, Gaver, W., Gall Krogh, P., Boucher, A., Chatting, D. 13 Jun 2022, DIS 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, New York, USA, ACM
  • More-than-human data interactions in the city: Project Reflections, Heitlinger, S., Taylor, A., Clarke, R., Powell, A., Gaver, B., Boucher, A., Turkay, C., Bedö, V., Schulze, H., Byles, H., Poland, K., Matsuda, N., Doney, E. 2022
  • The Datacatcher at 'The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies', Boucher, A., Gaver, W., Ovalle Piedra, L., Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Hauenstein, M. 26 Apr 2022
  • The Prayer Companion: In Never Alone Video Games and Other Interactive Design, Boucher, A., Bowers, J., Gaver, W., Jarvis, N., Kerridge, T., Wilkie, A., Antonelli, P., Galloway, P., Burckhardt, A. 10 Sep 2022

Babitha George Making Meaning Together Start Date: 10/05/2023

Psychology PhD June 01 1988


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