Staff Profile
Dr Nick Taylor
Senior Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction
- Email: nick.taylor@ncl.ac.uk
- Personal Website: http://www.nick-taylor.co.uk
Background
I am a Senior Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction working at the intersection of design, technology and society. My research attempts to understand the impact of emerging technologies and practices, and to imagine, prototype and explore possible preferable futures around those technologies.
My research has most commonly involved the use of technology in neighbourhoods, communities and public spaces. This has included public displays and physical computing to support civic engagement, and supporting people in harnessing technology for themselves through DIY and maker approaches. I have also been involved in a number of projects exploring emerging issues around the Internet of Things and how we might design for healthier relationships between people, things and the internet. Across this work I have employed a range of participatory approaches from speculative design to long-term deployments of functioning prototypes ‘in the wild’.
I have a background in Computer Science with a PhD from Lancaster University, although I have spent much of my academic career in design schools. After a previous stint at Newcastle as a postdoctoral research, I have held academic positions in design schools at the University of Dundee and Northumbria University.
Publications
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Articles
- Green DP, Fuchsberger V, Taylor N, Bjørn P, Kirk D, Lindtner S. Introduction to this Special Issue on Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing. Human–Computer Interaction 2019, 34(5-6), 379-388.
- Vlachokyriakos V, Dunphy P, Taylor N, Comber R, Olivier P. BallotShare: An exploration of the design space for digital voting in the workplace. Computers in Human Behavior 2014, 41, 433-443.
- Memarovic N, Langheinrich M, Cheverst K, Taylor N, Alt F. P-LAYERS — a layered framework addressing the multi-faceted issues facing community-supporting public display deployments. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 2013. In Press.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K. Supporting Community Awareness with Interactive Displays. IEEE Computer 2012, 45(5), 26-32.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K. Social Interaction around a Rural Community Photo Display. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2009, 67(12), 1037-1047.
- Müller J, Cheverst K, Fitton D, Taylor N, Paczkowski O, Krüger A. Experiences of Supporting Local and Remote Mobile Phone Interaction in Situated Public Display Deployments. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction 2009, 1(2), 1-21.
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Book Chapters
- Cheverst K, Taylor N, Do T. Supporting shared sense of history within a rural village community. Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab. In: Alan Chamberlain, Andy Crabtree, ed. Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab. Cham: Springer, 2020, pp.93-113.
- Cheverst K, Taher F, Fisher M, Fitton D, Taylor N. The Design, Deployment and Evaluation of Situated Display based Systems to Support Coordination and Community. In: Krüger, A., Kuflik, T, ed. Ubiquitous Display Environments. Berlin: Springer, 2012, pp.105-124.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K. Rural Communities and Pervasive Advertising. In: Müller, J., Alt, F., Michelis, D, ed. Pervasive Advertising. Berlin: Springer, 2011, pp.269-286.
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Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)
- Prost S, Ntouros V, Wood G, Collingham H, Taylor N, Crivellaro C, Rogers J, Vines J. Walking and Talking: Place-based Data Collection and Mapping for Participatory Design with Communities. In: DIS '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2023, Pittsburgh, USA: ACM.
- Abu Abah N, Taylor N, Morisset C, Mehrnezhad M. U-Sense: Feasibility Study of "Human as a Sensor" in Incident Reporting Systems in a Smart Campus. In: IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW 2023). 2023, Delft, Netherlands: IEEE.
- Key C, Gatehouse C, Taylor N. Feminist Care in the Anthropocene: Packing and Unpacking Tensions in Posthumanist HCI. In: DIS '22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2022, Virtual: ACM.
- Taylor N, Rogers J, Clarke L, Skelly M, Wallace J, Thomas P, George B, Raj R, Shorter M, Thorne M. Prototyping Things: Reflecting on Unreported Objects of Design Research for IoT. In: DIS '21: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2021. 2021, ACM.
- Key C, Browne F, Taylor N, Rogers J. Proceed with care: Reimagining home IoT through a care perspective. In: CHI '21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2021, ACM.
- Rogers J, Clarke L, Skelly M, Taylor N, Thomas P, Thorne M, Larsen S, Odrozek K, Kloiber J, Bihr P, Jain A, Arden J, von Grafenstein M. Our Friends Electric: Reflections on advocacy and design research for the voice enabled internet. In: CHI '19: Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2019, Glasgow Scotland Uk: ACM.
- Gorkovenko K, Taylor N. Audience and expert perspectives on second screen engagement with political debates. In: TVX '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. 2019, Salford (Manchester), United Kingdom: ACM.
- Taylor N, Clarke L, Skelly M, Nevay S. Strategies for engaging communities in creating physical civic technologies. In: CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2018, Montreal QC Canada: ACM.
- Taylor N, Clarke L. Everybody’s hacking: participation and the mainstreaming of hackathons. In: CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2018, Montreal QC Canada: ACM.
- Gorkovenko K, Taylor N. Understanding how people use Twitter during election debates. In: 31st International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference (HCI 2017). 2017, Sunderland, UK: BCS Learning and Development.
- Gorkovenko K, Taylor N, Rogers J. Social Printers: a physical social network for political debates. In: CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver Colorado USA: AMC.
- Taylor N, Clarke L, Gorkovenko K. Community Inventor Days: scaffolding grassroots innovation with maker events. In: DIS '17: Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 2017, Edinburgh United Kingdom: ACM.
- Johnson I, Vines J, Taylor N, Jenkins E, Marshall J. Reflections on Deploying Distributed Consultation Technologies with Community Organisations. In: CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: ACM Press.
- Gorkovenko K, Taylor N. Politics at home: second screen behaviours and motivations during TV debates. In: NordiCHI '16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. 2016, Gothenburg, Sweden: ACM.
- Taylor N, Hurley U, Connolly P. Making community: The wider role of makerspaces in public life. In: CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: AMC.
- Do TV, Cheverst K, Taylor N. Content analysis of a rural community’s interaction with its cultural heritage through a longitudinal display deployment. In: British HCI '15: Proceedings of the 2015 British HCI Conference. 2015, Lincoln United Kingdom: AMC.
- Taylor N, Frohlich D, Egglestone P, Marshall J, Rogers J, Blum-Ross A, Mills J, Shorter M, Olivier P. Utilising insight journalism for community technology design. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada: ACM.
- Wood G, Vines J, Balaam M, Taylor N, Smith T, Crivellaro C, Mensah J, Limon H, Challis J, Anderson L, Clarke A, Wright PC. The Department Of Hidden Stories: Playful Digital Storytelling for Children in a Public Library. In: 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ACM.
- Taylor N. Supporting community participation in interactive exhibits. In: PerDis '14: Proceedings of The International Symposium on Pervasive Displays. 2014, Copenhagen: ACM.
- Vlachokyriakos V, Comber R, Ladha K, Taylor N, Dunphy P, McCorry P, Olivier P. PosterVote: expanding the action repertoire for local political activism. In: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS'14). 2014, Vancouver, Canada: ACM Press.
- Taylor N, Bartindale T, Vines J, Olivier P. Exploring delegate engagement with an augmented conference. In: UbiComp '14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing. 2014, Seattle, WA, USA: ACM.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K, Wright P, Olivier P. Leaving the Wild: Lessons from Community Technology Handovers. In: CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris: ACM.
- Comber R, Thieme A, Rafiev A, Taylor N, Kraemer N, Olivier P. BinCam: Designing for Engagement with Facebook for Behavior Change. In: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013 SE - 7. 2013, Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
- Taylor N, Marshall J, Blum-Ross A, Mills J, Rogers J, Egglestone P, Frohlich D, Wright P, Olivier P. Viewpoint: Empowering Communities with Situated Voting Devices. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12). 2012, Austin, Texas, USA: ACM.
- Dade-Robertson M, Taylor N, Marshall J, Olivier P. The Political Sensorium. In: 4th Media Architecture Biennale Conference: Participation (MAB). 2012, Aarhus, Denmark: ACM Press.
- Bartindale T, Sheikh A, Taylor N, Wright P, Olivier P. StoryCrate: Tabletop Storyboarding for Live Film Production. In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12). 2012, Austin, Texas, USA: ACM.
- Lindsay S, Taylor N, Olivier P. Opportunistic Engagement by Designing on the Street. In: ACM annual conference extended abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA). 2012, Austin, Texas: ACM Press.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K. Creating a Rural Community Display with Local Engagement. In: 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS). 2010, Aarhus, Denmark: ACM Press.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K. "This Might Be Stupid But...": Participatory Design with Community Displays and Postcards. In: 20th Australasian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (OZCHI). 2008, Cairns, Australia: ACM Press.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K, Fitton D, Race NJP, Rouncefield M, Graham C. Probing Communities: Study of a Village Photo Display. In: OZCHI '07 Proceedings of the 19th conference of the computer-human interaction special interest group (CHISIG) of Australia on Computer-human interaction: design activities, artifacts and environments. 2007, Adelaide, Australia: Association for Computing Machinery.