Expertise

I am a principal design researcher and academic, with special interests in designing AI for wellbeing, designing AI for home wellbeing, technology strategy, service design, participatory research methods, technology for good, and creative research methods. My expertise include a range of participatory approaches for engaging stakeholders in the design of new technologies such as world cafes, co-design workshops and in-depth interviews as well as project design and management, data analysis, interpretation and presentation, and implementation of creative research methods (i.e. photo and art elicitation).

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Investigating how AI for sound can improve wellbeing in the home, smart buildings, and smart cities.
Identifying technology innovation approaches for tourism publications using new paper technologies to strategically enha
The project aims to raise awareness of cyber security issues amongst older adults in the local community, using novel ma

Organizational Affiliations

Surrey Future Fellow, School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey

Education

Visual Communications
2006–2010, Bachelor of Arts (BA, AB, BS, BSc, SB, ScB), Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland, Dublin) - DIT
Design: Critical Practice
2010–2012, First Level Masters Degree, Goldsmiths University of London (United Kingdom, London)
Design for Home Happiness; Creative Research Methods
2014–2017, Doctor of Philosophy, Loughborough University (United Kingdom, Loughborough)