Staff Profile
Professor Abi Durrant
Professor of Interaction Design
- Email: abigail.durrant@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: http://www.abigaildurrant.com
I’m Professor of Interaction Design and Co-Director of Open Lab and EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens at Newcastle University, predominantly working in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
My research addresses the significant design challenges that we face for managing identity in our everyday interactions with digital technologies and personal data. I have explored the digital representation of selfhood in the context of family relationships and legacies, major life transitions, memorialisation, cultural heritage, human rights media, and personal identity management.I am particularly interested in the health implications of managing a digitally-mediated self. I am Principal Investigator for the EPSRC-funded project INTUIT: Interaction Design for Trusted Sharing of Personal Health Data to Live Well with HIV (EP/R033900/1), a design-led programme that aims to understand and address issues of trust, identity and privacy that are experienced by people living with HIV when sharing self-generated data with clinicians, peers, and others, for the purposes of self-managing their condition.
I’m also Co-I on EPSRC Playing Out with IOT (EP/P025544/2), exploring an outdoor design space for children’s creative free play with Internet of Things. My work is grounded in co-creative, experience-centred, and research-through-design approaches, working closely with non-academic partners to define and conduct research.
I actively contribute to a number of academic communities, including SIGCHI Conferences and the Design Research Society (DRS) Conference. I am a Steering Committee member for the biennial RTD Conference series. I am also a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and Reviewer for EPSRC.
The most up-to-date list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar page.
I am currently Principal Investigator of EPSRC INTUIT (EP/R033900/1): https://intuitproject.org/
I am currently Co-Investigator of EPSRC Playing Out with IOT (EP/P025544/2): http://playingout.digital/
More information about previous research projects can be found at: www.abigaildurrant.com.
I currently teach Interaction Design on the MSc in Human Computer Interaction Design at Newcastle University.
I currently supervise 8 PhD students, in Interaction Design, Communication Design, Industrial Design, Computer Science, and Human Computer Interaction. I have previously supervised three PhD students to successful completion.
- Claisse C, Kasadha K, Durrant A. Co-creating poetry for communicating individuals’ emotional experience of living with HIV. In: Design4Health. 2020, Amsterdam: Lab4Living, Sheffield Hallam University.
- Claisse C, Petrelli D, Ciolfi L, Dulake N, Marshall MT, Durrant AC. Crafting Critical Heritage Discourses into Interactive Exhibition Design. In: CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020, Honolulu Hawaii: ACM.
- Bussone A, Kasadha B, Stumpf S, Durrant AC, Tariq S, Gibbs J, Lloyd KC, Bird J. Trust, Identity, Privacy, and Security Considerations for Designing a Peer Data Sharing Platform Between People Living With HIV. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 2020, 4, 1-27.
- Whitham R, Moreton S, Bowen S, Speed C, Durrant A. Understanding, capturing, and assessing value in collaborative design research. CoDesign 2019, 15(1), 1-7.
- Durrant AC, Kirk DS, Trujillo-Pisanty D, Martindale S. Admixed portrait: Design to understand Facebook portrayals in new parenthood. In: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). 2018, Montreal, Canada: ACM.
- Orzech KM, Moncur W, Durrant A, Trujillo-Pisanty D. Opportunities and challenges of the digital lifespan: views of service providers and citizens in the UK. Information Communication and Society 2018, 21(1), 14-29.
- Elsden C, Durrant AC, Chatting D, Kirk DS. Designing Documentary Informatics. In: Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17). 2017, Edinburgh, United Kingdom: ACM.
- Chatting D, Kirk DS, Durrant AC, Elsden C, Yurman P, Bichard JA. Making Ritual Machines: The Mobile Phone as a Networked Material for Research Products. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.
- Elsden C, Chatting D, Durrant AC, Garbett A, Nissen B, Vines J, Kirk DS. On Speculative Enactments. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.
- Durrant A, Kirk D, Trujillo-Pisanty D, Moncur W, Orzech L, Schofield T, Elsden C, Chatting D, Monk A. Transitions in Digital Personhood: Online Activity in Early Retirement. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). 2017, Denver, CO: ACM.
- Elsden C, Kirk DS, Durrant A. A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering with Personal Informatics. Human–Computer Interaction 2016, 31(6), 518-557.
- Elsden C, Durrant A, Kirk D. It's just my history isn't it?: Understanding smart journaling practices. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016. 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: ACM.
- Galani A, Durrant A, Chatting D. Sit with Me. Newcastle upon Tyne: Discovery Museum, 2016.
- Bowen S, Durrant A, Nissen B, Bowers J, Wright P. The value of designers' creative practice within complex collaborations. Design Studies 2016, 46, 174-198.
- Kirk D, Durrant A, Wood G, Leong T, Wright P. Understanding the Sociality of Experience in Mobile Music Listening with Pocketsong. In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2016). 2016, Brisbane, Australia: ACM.
- Kirk DS, Durrant A, Wood G, Leong TW, Wright P. Understanding the Sociality of Experience in Mobile Music Listening with Pocketsong. In: 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2016. 2016, Brisbane, Australia: ACM.
- Durrant A, Vines J, Wallace J, Yee J. Developing a Dialogical Platform for Disseminating Research through Design. Constructivist Foundations 2015, 11(1), 8-21.
- Hook J, Verbaan S, Durrant A, Olivier P, Wright P. A Study of the Challenges Related to DIY Assistive Technology in the Context of Children with Disabilities. In: DIS Companion '14. 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM.
- Trujillo-Pisanty D, Durrant A, Martindale S, James S, Collomosse J. Admixed portrait: Refections on being online as a new parent. In: Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems: Processes, Practices, Methods, and Techniques (DIS '14). 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM.
- Durrant AC, Kirk DS, Reeves S. Human Values in Curating a Human Rights Media Archive. In: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). 2014, Toronto, Canada: ACM.
- Durrant A, Hook J, McNaney R, Williams K, Smith T, Stockman T, Olivier P. Interpersonal expression in the special educational needs classroom: An experience-centred design case study. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction 2014, 2(1), 34-47.
- Wallace J, Yee J, Durrant A. Reflections on a Synergistic Format for Disseminating Research Through Design. In: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '14). 2014, ACM Press.
- Durrant A, Hook J, McNaney R, Williams K, Smith T, Kipling M, Olivier P, Stockman T. Design to Support Interpersonal Communication in the Special Educational Needs Classroom. In: IDC 2013: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children. 2013, New York: ACM.
- Merritt S, Durrant A, Reeves S, Kirk D. In Dialogue: Methodological Insights on Doing HCI Research in Rwanda. In: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '12). 2012, ACM Press.
- Wessels B, Anderson B, Durrant A, Ellis J. Mediating genocide: Cultural understanding through digital and print media stories in global communication. International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics 2012, 8 (2-3).
- Durrant A, Kirk DS, Benford S, Rodden T. Pursuing Leisure: Reflections on Theme Park Visiting. Computer Supported Collaborative Work 2012, 21(1), 43-75.
- Anstead E, Durrant A, Benford S, Kirk D. Tabletop games for photo consumption at theme parks. In: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces (ITS '12). 2012, ACM Press.
- Durrant A, Rowland D, Kirk DS, Benford S, Fischer JE, McAuley D. Automics: Souvenir generating photoware for theme parks. In: CHI 2011: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: ACM Press.
- Durrant A, Frohlich D, Sellen A, Uzzell D. The Secret Lives of Teens: Online and Offline Photographic Displays at Home. Visual Studies 2011, 26(2), 113-124.
- Lindley S, Durrant AC, Kirk D, Taylor AS. Collocated social practices surrounding photos. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2009, 67(12), 995-1004.
- Durrant A, Frohlich D, Sellen A, Lyons E. Home curation versus teenage photography: Photo displays in the family home. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2009, 67(12), 1005-1023.
- Durrant A, Taylor AS, Frohlich D, Sellen A, Uzzell D. Photo Displays and Intergenerational Relationships in the Family Home. In: British Computing Society Conference of Human Computer Interaction (HCI 09). 2009, ACM Press.