Staff Profile

I am a Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design at Open Lab, Newcastle University. In my research, I take a co-creative and design-led approach to explore with care the role of digital technologies in our lives. I am interested in envisioning alternatives to dominant narratives and cultures by learning from experiences of making and relating differently with existential, relational and spiritual matters at the core of my process. I also draw from Feminist, Social Justice and More-than-Human discourses to critically inform my work. My ongoing research includes co-designing supportive technologies for self-care and self-management of health conditions; exploring data-driven practices and innovation for community wellbeing; addressing health inequalities in maternal mental health, and investigating the potential of multi-sensory interactions to support spirituality.

Prior to my current role, I was an Innovation Fellow and held a post-doc position at Open Lab working on the EPSRC-funded projects INTUIT ('Interaction design for trusted sharing of personal health data to live well with HIV') and Centre for Digital Citizens. I was initially trained as a designer at the University of the Arts London and the Royal College of Art. I completed my PhD in Design 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 multi-sensory and digitally-augmented experiences of heritage.

Before working in academia, I 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).

Check my Google Scholar for latest publications and do get in touch via Linkedin.

Role within the School of Computing: I am also part of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Committee.

• Articles

  • Lie MLS, Claisse C. Insights from ERicar: Engaging Roma women in the co-creation of an antenatal care information resource. Women's Studies International Forum 2025, 112, 103166.
  • Claisse C, Kasadha B, Durrant AC. Perspectives of healthcare professionals and people living with HIV in dialogue: on information sharing to improve communication at the consultation. AIDS Care 2024, 36(sup 1), 6-14.
  • Claisse C, Durrant AC, Branley-Bell D, Sillence E, Glasgott A, Cameron A. ‘Chugging along, plugging in and out of it’: Understanding a place-based approach for community-based support of mental health recovery. Social Science & Medicine 2024, 348, 116823.
  • 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.
  • Lie M, Claisse C, Karchnakova Z. Engaging Czech-Slovak Roma women in the co-creation of an antenatal care information resource. European Journal of Public Health 2023, 33(Supplement_2), ckad160.931.
  • 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, Chatting D, Wolf S, Morris B, Durrant AC. Resound: A Moment of Reflection in a Techno-Spiritual RtD. In: TEI '25: Nineteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction. 2025, Bordeaux, France: ACM. In Press.
  • Chatting D, Claisse C, Wolf S, Morris B, Durrant AC. Pace Layers and Research Products. In: Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, And Then What? CHI '25. 2025, Yokohama, Japan.
  • Claisse C, Osborne AK, Sillence E, Glasgott A, Cameron AS, Durrant AC. Exploring Alternative Socio-Technical Systems for Careful Data Work in Recovery Contexts. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '25). 2025, Yokohama, Japan: ACM.
  • Claisse C, Durrant AC, Lie M. Understanding Antenatal Care Needs through Co-Creation with Roma Women to Inform the Design of mHealth Technologies. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA: ACM.
  • Claisse C, Durrant A, Lie M. Understanding Antenatal Care Needs through Co-Creation with Roma Women to Inform the Design of mHealth Technologies. In: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '24). 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA: ACM.
  • Lewis M, Sturdee M, Lengyel D, Toselli M, Miers J, Owen V, Urban Davis J, Gaudl SE, Xiao L, Priego E, Snooks K, Turmo Vidal L, Blevis E, Privato N, Piedade P, Ford C, Bryan-Kinns N, Severes B, Kaipainen K, Claisse C, Mehnaz Huq R, Palosaari Eladhari M, Troisi A, Henriques AO, Grek A, McMurchy G, LC R, Nabil S, Jardine J, Collins R, Vlasov A, Knight Y, Cremaschi M, Carderelli-Gronau S, Núñez-Pacheco C, Reyes-Cruz G, Riviere J-P. Travelling Arts x HCI Sketchbook: Exploring the Intersection Between Artistic Expression and Human-Computer Interaction. In: Extended Abstracts of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24). 2024, Honolulu, HI, USA.
  • Markum,RB,Wolf,S,Claisse,C,Hoefer,M. Mediating the Sacred: Configuring a Design Space for Religious and Spiritual Tangible Interactive Artifacts. In: TEI '24. 2024, Cork, Ireland: ACM.
  • Claisse C, Chatting D, Wolf S, Morris B, Durrant AC. Making Alternatives through Design for Mediated Spiritual Practice. In: HttF '24 : Halfway to the Future Symposium. 2024, Santa Cruz, CA: ACM.
  • Margariti E, Claisse C, Nabil S, Bridgens B, Durrant A, Kirk D. Human Building Interaction and Design for Climate Change. In: ACM Designing Interactive Systems. 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark: Association for Computing Machinery.
  • Durrant AC, Claisse C, Lloyd K, Tariq S, Gibbs J. Healthcare professionals' perspectives on working with patient-generated data for supporting person-centred HIV care. In: British HIV Association (BHIVA) Conference. 2024, Birmingham, UK: Newcastle University.
  • Vlachokyriakos V, Johnson I G, Anderson R, Claisse C, Zhang V, Briggs P. Design Implications for a Social and Collaborative Understanding of online Information Assessment Practices, Challenges and Heuristics. In: Proceedings of 22nd European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. 2024, Rimini, Italy: European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET).
  • Bennett SJ, Claisse C, Luger E, Durrant AC. Unpicking Epistemic Injustices in Digital Health: On the Implications of Designing Data-Driven Technologies for the Management of Long-Term Conditions. In: AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society (AIES '23). 2023, Montreal, Canada: ACM.
  • Chatting D, Morris B, Claisse C, Durrant AC. Seeking Resonances for Remote Communal Chanting Practices. In: Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) 2023. 2023, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA: ACM.
  • 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.
  • Lie M, Claisse C. ERicar: Engaging Roma women in the co-creation of an antenatal care information resource. In: British Sociological Association, Medical Sociology Group Conference. 2023, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK: British Sociological Association.
  • Lie M, Claisse C. Engaging Czech-Slovak Roma women in the co-creation of an antenatal care information resource. In: European Public Health Conference. 2023, The Convention Centre, Dublin.
  • 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.

• Report

  • Markum R, Wolf S, Smith CE, Luthe S, Claisse C, Mass F, Hoefer M. Design Principles for Participatory Design in Religious & Spiritual Contexts. SPIRITED Collective, 2023. Spirituality, Religion, and Interactive Technology Design (SPIRITED) Collective Zine.