Staff Profile
Dr Effie Le Moignan
Research Associate: Social Computing
I am a Research Associate in Social Computing, working on projects as part of DERC (Digital Economy Research Centre) and Centre Manager for the EPSRC Centre for Digital Citizens. My research primarily focuses on digital living, homes and visual culture, with a particular emphasis on how technology intersects with the domestic sphere and the the everyday nature of being human. As part of interrogating the everyday and social practices, I have a research interest in smart homes/devices and their impact upon understandings, conceptualisations, and lived experiences of home and domesticity.
I approach HCI from an interdisciplinary perspective with a focus on qualitative methods including ethnography, comparative approaches (tracing the evolution of mediums from analogue to contemporary digital formats), and visual analysis. This draws upon a range of disciplines from sociology, HCI, anthropology and human geography as a humanities-centred approach to examining how ubiquitous technology is used and perceived in daily life.
- Mahoney J, Le Moignan E, Long K, Wilson M, Barnett J, Vines J, Lawson S. Feeling alone among 317 million others: Disclosures of loneliness on Twitter. Computers in Human Behavior 2019, 98, 20-30.
- Le Moignan E, Lawson S, Rowland D, Mahoney J, Briggs P. Has Instagram Fundamentally Altered the 'Family Snapshot'?. In: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Colorado, Denver, USA: ACM.