Newcastle University

I'm a KE (Research) Associate within the Digital Interaction based in Culture Lab. I am currently working on Newcastle University's node of 'The Creative Exchange' AHRC Hub, where I am exploring new mechanisms and methods to support increased engagement between Arts and Humanities academics and the creative industries. Alongside this I am continuing my ongoing research into design theory and methods for participatory and co-design, technology to support and question ageing, and inter- and transdisciplinary contexts. This includes a exploring what the term 'participation' means in the context of digital interaction and HCI, questioning why and how we include people in the design process, and what this might mean in a period where boundaries between disciplines are increasingly blurred.

Before joining Newcastle University I was a Senior Research Assistant at Northumbria University’s School of Design where I was the lead RA on the EPSRC 'Digital Economy' funded ‘New Approaches to Banking for the Older Old’ project. On this project - a collaboration between York, Northumbria and Newcastle (Culture Lab and Buisiness School) Universities - I collaborated with computer scientists, financial experts, ethnographers, psychologists, designers and, most importantly, our ‘eighty somethings’, in a participatory and experience-centred approach to design. As a result we developed a number of novel technologies and services along with guidance on future policy to enable the needs and desires of our eighty something collaborators be better supported by the UK banking industry. Prior to this project I completed an AHRC funded PhD with Transtechnology Research at the University of Plymouth. During my doctoral research I spent time working within gerontology, social science, cognitive science and neuroscience to better understand notions of cognition and embodiment as they relate to ageing and the design theory and practice surrounding inclusive design and HCI.

Along with the above, I am working on a number of other projects exploring new methods for experience-centered design, do-it-yourself practices and technologies, designing new platforms to support financial delegation, and speculating systems and services for future assisstive living.

Please visit my personal website for more information: http://www.johnvines.eu

• Vines J, Blythe M, Dunphy P, Vlachokyriakos V, Teece I, Monk A, Olivier P. Cheque Mates: Participatory Design of Digital Payments with Eighty Somethings. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12). 2012, Austin, Texas, USA. In Press.
• Vines J, Blythe M, Lindsay S, Dunphy P, Monk A, Olivier P. Questionable Concepts: Critique as Resource for Designing with Eighty Somethings. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12). 2012, Austin, Texas, USA. In Press.
• Vines J, Dunphy P, Blythe M, Lindsay S, Monk A, Olivier P. The Joy of Cheques: Trust, Paper and Eighty Somethings. In: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW'12). 2012, Seattle, Washington, USA.