Staff Profile

I am a designer-researcher with over fifteen years’ experience coordinating cross-sector and design practice-led collaborative projects across domains including: climate action public engagement; volunteering and community-based services; digitally-supported co-design at scale; community and place-based cultural heritage; academic-industry knowledge exchange, and healthcare service innovation. 

See my Open Lab profile and ORCID page for information about my research.

• Articles

  • Wilson A, Rodger S, Bowen S, Tewdwr-Jones M. Public Engagement, Digital Technology and Transport: Engaging through Open, Early and Experience-Centred Perspectives at Scale. Contemporary Social Science 2024, Epub ahead of print.
  • Bowen S, Wilson A, Rodger S, Feltwell T, Nappey T. Metro Futures 2020: Enabling Participation at Varying Depths and Scales via Digital Technology. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction 2023, 39(18), 3663-3683.
  • Goffe L, Chivukula SS, Bowyer A, Bowen S, Toombs AL, Gray CM. Web Augmentation for Well-Being: the Human-Centred Design of a Takeaway Food Ordering Digital Platform. Interacting with Computers 2022, 33(4), 335-352.
  • Senior T, Metcalfe T, McClean S, Wilson A, Bowen S, Ailes M, McGregor E. Medievals and Moderns in Conversation: Co-Designing Creative Futures for Under-Used Historic Churches in Rural Communities. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2022, 6(5), 40.
  • Ramos M, Forcellini FA, Ferreira MGG, Bowen S, Wright PC. Cyclical experience-based design: A proposal for engaging stakeholders in a co-creative model for primary health care service design. International Journal of Health Planning and Management 2021, 37(1), 486-503.
  • Zhao SC, Kirk D, Bowen S, Chatting D, Wright PC. Supporting the Cross-cultural Appreciation of Traditional Chinese Puppetry Through a Digital Gesture Library. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 2019, 12(4), 1-19.
  • Zhao SC, Kirk D, Bowen S, Wright PC. Cross-cultural Understanding of Chinese Traditional Puppetry: Integrating Digital Technology to Enhance Audience Engagement. The International Journal of Intangible Heritage 2019, 14, 139-154.
  • Zhao SC, Kirk D, Bowen S, Wright PC. Enhancing the Appreciation of Traditional Chinese Painting Using Interactive Technology. Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 2018, 2(2), 16.
  • Wolstenholme D, Ross H, Cobb M, Bowen S. Participatory design facilitates Person Centred Nursing in service improvement with older people: a secondary directed content analysis. Journal of Clinical Nursing 2017, 26(9-10), 1217-1225.
  • 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.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Rowling H, Bowen S, Kirk D. "It's all their words, it's just not necessarily all of the words": Balancing Authenticity and Authority in Participatory Heritage Projects. In: Participatory Design Conference (PDC 22). 2022, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: ACM.
  • Goffe L, Chivukula SS, Bowyer A, Bowen S, Toombs AL, Gray CM. Appetite for Disruption: Designing Human-Centred Augmentations to an Online Food Ordering Platform. In: 34th British Human Computer Interaction Conference. 2021, London (Online).
  • Bowen Simon, Wright Peter, Wilson Alexander, Dow Andy, Bartindale Tom, Anderson Rob. Metro Futures: Experience-Centred Co-Design at Scale. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2020, Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA: ACM.
  • Balaam M, Comber R, Clarke RE, Windlin C, Stahl A, Hook K, Fitzpatrick G. EmotionWork in Experience-Centred Design. In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2019, Glasgow, UK: ACM.
  • Nabil S, Talhouk R, Trueman J, Kirk DS, Bowen S, Wright P. Decorating public and private spaces: Identity and pride in a refugee camp. In: CHI EA '18 Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2018, Montreal, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery.
  • Nabil S, Everitt A, Sturdee M, Alexander J, Bowen S, Wright P, Kirk D. ActuEating: Desiging, Studying and Exploring Actuating Decorative Artefacts. In: DIS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 2018, Hong Kong, China.
  • Akama Y, Light A, Bowen S. Mindfulness and technology: Traces of a middle way. In: DIS 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 2017, New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
  • Green DP, Bowen S, Hook J, Wright P. Enabling Polyvocality in Interactive Documentaries through "Structural Participation". In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.
  • Bowers J, Bowen S, Shaw T. Many Makings: Entangling Publics, Participation and Things in a Complex Collaborative Context. In: 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 16). 2016, Brisbane, Australia: ACM.
  • Bowers J, Bowen S, Shaw T. Many Makings: Entangling Publics, Participation and Things in a Complex Collaborative Context. In: ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 2016, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia: ACM.
  • Shaw T, Bowen S, Bowers J. Unfoldings: Multiple Explorations of Sound and Space. In: New Interfaces For Musical Expression. 2016, Brisbane, Australia.
  • Webster M, Foster E, Comber R, Bowen S, Cheetham T, Balaam M. Understanding the lived experience of adolescents with type 1 diabetes: opportunities for design. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '15). 2015, Boston, MA, USA: ACM.
  • Smith T, Bowen S, Nissen B, Bowers J, Hook J, Verhoevan A, Wright P, Olivier P. Exploring gesture sonification to support reflective craft practice. In: CHI 2015 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM Press.
  • Crivellaro C, Comber R, Dade-Robertson M, Bowen S, Wright P, Olivier P. Contesting the City: Enacting the political through digitally supported urban walks. In: CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM.
  • Green D, Bowen S, Newell C, Schofield G, Bartindale T, Crivellaro C, Sheik A, Wright P, Olivier P. Beyond Participatory Production: Digitally Supporting Grassroots Documentary. In: Proceedings of the 33rd annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2015. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM Press.

• Editorial

  • 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.