Mike Vanis

Senior Research Fellow

Department: Northumbria School of Design

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Key Publications

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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 Aug 2023, Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, Oxford, Oxford University Press
Thinking and making lab with hiCraft and the Interaction Research Studio: Make a Yo-Yo machine with The Interaction Research Studio, Ovalle, L., Vanis, M. 8 Jul 2023
Yo-Yo Machines: Speed Dial exhibited as part of the Saint-Étienne Design Biennial 2022, Boucher, A., Gaver, W., Brown, D., Vanis, M., Sheen, A., Ovalle Piedra, L., Matsuda, N., Chatting, D. 6 Apr 2022
Yo–Yo Machines: Self-Build Devices that Support Social Connections During the Pandemic , Gaver, B., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Chatting, D., Matsuda, N., Ovalle Piedra, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M. 29 Apr 2022, CHI 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, US, ACM
My Naturewatch Camera, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Molinera, J., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M., Phillips, R., Abbas-Nazari, A., Growing, B., Anderson, R. 3 Jun 2021
Yo-yo machines: self-build peripheral awareness communication devices, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Chatting, D., Matsuda, N., Molinera, J., Ovalle Piedra, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M. Nov 2021
Design and Deploying Tools to ‘Actively Engaging Nature’: The My Naturewatch Project as an Agent for Engagement, Phillips, R., Abbas-Nazari, A., Tooze, J., Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Vanis, M. 8 Jun 2019, HCII 2019: Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population. Design for the Elderly and Technology Acceptance, Cham, Switzerland, Springer
My Naturewatch Camera: Disseminating Practice Research with a Cheap and Easy DIY Design, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Vanis, M., Sheen, A., Brown, D., Ovalle Piedra, L., Matsuda, N., Abbas-Nazari, A., Phillips, R. 2 May 2019, CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, ACM
Nature Scenes: Brompton Biotopia, London Design Festival 2019, Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Ovalle, L., Boucher, A., Vanis, M., Sheen, A., Gaver, W. 22 Sep 2019
ProbeTools: VA Digital Design Weekend 2019, Boucher, A., Brown, D., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M., Gaver, W., Matsuda, N. 22 Sep 2019

Qualifications

Design Studies MA June 01 2013
Design Studies BSc (Hons) June 01 2011

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