Staff Profile

I am a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design at Open Lab, Newcastle University. I trained as a designer at the University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art in London. I completed my practice-based PhD at Sheffield Hallam University in 2019, where I explored the potential of interactive technologies for cultural heritage. My design-led research focused on engaging the local community in the process of co-creating multisensory and digitally-augmented experiences of heritage.

In my current work, I take a co-creative and Research through Design (RtD) approach to explore digital technologies and personal data for health and wellbeing. I draw from Feminist, Social Justice and More-than-Human discourses to inform my critical thinking and reflexivity. My ongoing research includes co-designing supportive technologies for self-care and self-management of health conditions; exploring data practices in peer-support and voluntary organisations for community wellbeing; addressing health inequalities in maternal mental health, and investigating the potential of multisensory interactions to support spirituality and community practice of faith.

I was a Research Associate on the EPSRC-funded project INTUIT (2019-2021) and an Innovation Fellow on the EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens (2021-2023). Across both projects, I led participatory research on Digital Health and Community Technologies, collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders.

In the past, I have led artistic projects funded by Arts Council England and worked in industry as an Interaction Designer, developing exhibition and interactive design for cultural institutions including the National Trust, English Heritage, Historic Royal Palaces in the UK, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York (USA).

Please do get in touch via email or on Twitter @CarolineClaisse, and check my Google Scholar for latest publications.

• Articles

  • Rathbone A, Simone S, Claisse C, Sillence E, Coventry L, Brown RD, Durrant AC. People with long-term conditions sharing personal health data via digital health technologies: A scoping review to inform design. PLOS Digital Health 2023, 2(5), e0000264.
  • Hewitt C, Lloyd KC, Tariq S, Durrant A, Claisse C, Kasadha B, Gibbs J. Patient-generated data in the management of HIV: a scoping review. BMJ Open 2021, 11(5), e046393.
  • Claisse C, Kasadha B, Durrant AC. Co-Creative Visual Poetic Inquiry for communicating lived experience of HIV self-management and self-care. Design for Health 2021, 5(2), 252-272.

• Book Chapter

  • Claisse C. Re-Interpreting Historic Interiors to Bring the House to Life. In: Brooker, G; Harriss, H; Walker, K, ed. Interior Futures: Volume 3 - Abstracted/Negotiated. Yountville, California: Crucible Press, 2019, pp.114-125.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Claisse C, Durrant AC, Kasadha B. Perspectives of Healthcare Professionals and people living with HIV in dialogue: on information sharing to improve communication at the consultation. In: The 15th AIDSImpact Conference 2023. 2023, Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Claisse C, Durrant AC. ‘Keeping our Faith alive’: Investigating Buddhism practice during COVID-19 to inform Design for the online community practice of Faith. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). 2023, Hamburg and virtual: Association for Computing Machinery.
  • Sidat S, Claisse C, Laycock D, Kasadha B, Coventry L, Durrant A. Understanding Self-care practices to live well with HIV: A phenomenological study to inform supportive technology. In: AIDS 2022 The 24th International AIDS Conference. 2022, Montreal, Canada.
  • Claisse C, Umair M, Durrant A, Windlin C, Karpashevich P, Höök K, Tsaknaki V, Sanches P, Sas C. Tangible Interaction for Supporting Well-being. In: CHI EA '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts. 2022, New Orleans, LA: ACM.
  • Hay K, Pschetz L, Koulidou N, Claisse C, Dylan T, Dixon B, Collingham H, Nissen B. Making Together Across Space & Time: Mapping Participatory Making when Co-Designing Asynchronously and/or without Colocation. In: Participatory Design Conference '22. 2022, ACM.
  • Claisse C, Kasadha B, Stumpf S, Durrant AC. Investigating Daily Practices of Self-care to Inform the Design of Supportive Health Technologies for Living and AgeingWell with HIV. In: CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2022, New Orleans, LA: ACM.
  • 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.
  • 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, Dulake N. Design synthesis: an act of Research through Design. In: Proceedings of the 4th Biennial Research Through Design Conference. 2019, Delft and Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • Giglitto D, Ciolfi L, Claisse C, Lockley E. Bridging cultural heritage and communities through digital technologies: Understanding perspectives and challenges. In: C&T 2019: The 9th International Conference on Communities & Technologies - Transforming Communities. 2019, Vienna, Austria: ACM.
  • Claisse C, Petrelli D, Dulake N, Marshall M, Ciolfi L. Multisensory interactive storytelling to augment the visit of a historical house museum. In: 2018 3rd Digital Heritage International Congress (DigitalHERITAGE) held jointly with 2018 24th International Conference on Virtual Systems & Multimedia (VSMM 2018). 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE.
  • Claisse C, Ciolfi L, Petrelli D. Containers of Stories: using co-design and digital augmentation to empower the museum community and create novel experiences of heritage at a house museum. In: Design for Next: Proceedings of the 12th European Academy of Design Conference. 2017, Sapienza University of Rome: Routledge.

• Editorial

  • Maye L, Claisse C. Co-Design within and between Communities in Cultural Heritage: Current and Open Questions. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2023, 7(1), 1.