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Dr Amy Melniczuk

Lecturer

Department: Computer and Information Sciences

Amy Melniczuk is a Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Northumbria University, working in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). She got her Ph.D. specializing in HCI at the University of Munich (LMU) in Germany.

Before coming to Newcastle, Amy worked at the LMU in Germany, the University of Toronto in Canada, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her research interests are hardware computing, mobile interaction, embodied interaction, and collaboration. Her current work focuses on designing and developing tangible user interfaces to help users interact with the computer more accessible and intuitively. Her work has been published in top HCI conferences.

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Amy Melniczuk

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Embedding Thinking Strategies within a Tangible Tree to Orchestrate Small Group Brainstorming, Melniczuk, A., Kang, N., Lawson, S. 11 Feb 2024, TEI 2024 - Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, New York, ACM
  • Exploring Feedback Modality Designs to Improve Young Children's Collaborative Actions, Melniczuk, A., Vrapi, E. 9 Oct 2023, ICMI '23: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, New York, ACM

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