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What Matters, Not What is The Matter: A Novel Approach to Empathising and Understanding the Third Space of the Healthcare Waiting Room
Get PDFA poster and spoken conference presentation at The European Healthcare Design Conference at The Royal College of Physicians, London. This formed part of the dissemination of my previous doctoral thesis to architects, interior designers and health practitioners
EcoFutures: Between Grief and Hope
Get PDFEcoFutures is a collaborative publication supported by Videotage and the University of the Arts London. It documents the works produced during the inaugural EcoFutures Digital Residency, a programme co-hosted by Videotage HK and UAL from April to June 2025, exploring the intersection of digital media, environmental consciousness, and emotional expression in contemporary art and design
Finding Our Joy: Queer Perspectives on HCI Research
Get PDFHow do we make space for joy in Queer HCI? This work draws on our authors' experiences as Queer researchers and allies, navigating a field that is ostensibly receptive to our work, yet provides a narrow framework for acceptable research. We relate personal accounts of contending with identity, practice, and publication; we discuss what joy means to us, and the gap we see in Queer HCI where joy should exist. We believe that Queer HCI and research can itself be subversive, and assert that it needs to be in order for our research community to flourish. Our work emerges from a need for Queer joy in our research practice, and we approach Queerness as a multifaceted experience that by nature resists the categorisation that we often see in HCI. Finally, we present reflective guidelines for future work, that will allow us achieve inclusive, intentional, and joyful research
Human-Centered AI Communication in Co-Creativity: An Initial Framework and Insights
Get PDFEffective communication between AI and humans is essential for successful human-AI co-creation. However, many current co-creative AI systems lack effective communication, which limits their potential for collaboration. This paper presents the initial design of the Framework for AI Communication (FAICO) for co-creative AI, developed through a systematic review of 107 full-length papers. FAICO presents key aspects of AI communication and their impact on user experience, offering preliminary guidelines for designing human-centered AI communication. To improve the framework, we conducted a preliminary study with two focus groups involving skilled individuals in AI, HCI, and design. These sessions sought to understand participants’ preferences for AI communication, gather their perceptions of the framework, collect feedback for refinement, and explore its use in co-creative domains like collaborative writing and design. Our findings reveal a preference for a human- AI feedback loop over linear communication and emphasize the importance of context in fostering mutual understanding. Based on these insights, we propose actionable strategies for applying FAICO in practice and future directions, marking the first step to- ward developing comprehensive guidelines for designing effective human-centered AI communication in co-creation
Improving User Experience with FAICO: Towards a Framework for AI Communication in Human-AI Co-Creativity
Get PDFHow AI communicates with humans is crucial for effective human-AI co-creation. However, many existing co-creative AI tools cannot communicate effectively, limiting their potential as collaborators. This paper introduces our initial design of a Framework for designing AI Communication (FAICO) for co-creative AI based on a systematic review of 107 full-length papers. FAICO presents key aspects of AI communication and their impacts on user experience to guide designing effective AI communication. We then show actionable ways to translate our framework into two practical tools: design cards for designers and a configuration tool for users. The design cards enable designers to consider AI communication strategies that cater to a diverse range of users in co-creative contexts, while the configuration tool empowers users to customize AI communication based on their needs and creative workflows. This paper contributes new insights within the literature on Human-AI Co-Creativity and Human-Computer Interaction, focusing on designing AI communication to enhance user experience
Memory As First Breath: Critiquing and Disrupting the Lingering Politics of Memory of the Francoist Regime Through an Artistic Practice Involving a Personal Archive of Photographs
Get PDFThis thesis examines and critiques the memory politics of the Francoist regime and the post-Franco era, looking specifically at the flooding and displacement of Faió, a village in a region called la Franja in South Aragon at the border with Catalonia. Academic literature emphasises the Pact of Forgetting (1975) and Law of Amnesty (1977) as the central moments of memory construction of the Francoist past during the Transition. This research examines the relationship between these events and the lingering discourses and affects of previous mnemonic narratives, especially those regarding territorial politics and the production of subjectivity under the regime. An analysis of the exclusion of personal accounts from political and historical research informs a critique of these politics. Examining these through a personal archive, which contains family photographs spanning three generations (from 1950 to 2000), makes it possible to identify how autobiographical narratives and affects underpin the transmission of a troubled past. I argue that these personal accounts constitute counter-narratives and memory materials previously excluded from collective memory and academic literature.
Memory studies scholars have argued that the politics of memory have historically relied on inaccessible archives, challenging the disclosure of information, research, and legal action. Despite the participation of families in these processes, there remains a need to further investigate the potential of researching personal archives. This thesis explores how a practice-based autoethnographic methodology can contribute to understanding the challenges and possibilities of situated research on personal family archives in contexts of troubled pasts. I argue that an artistic practice with a personal archive disrupts the lingering politics of the regime by multiplying the sources of historical research and political practice. Situating research within personal narratives and minor histories, this thesis proposes an alternative relationship between personal and political narratives, drawing on new materialist perspectives, in particular Deleuze and Guattari’s work on minor literature. The analysis of reproductive work by feminist scholar Silvia Federici and the nomadic perspective of Rosi Braidotti privilege the perspective of women within the family archive, further defining memory as reproductive work which provides multiple material and symbolic meanings and coordinates
Forensic AI: A Novel Multi-Granular Approach for Detecting Synthetic Media Manipulation
Get PDFWith the rapid evolution of AI-driven synthetic media, deepfake technology has emerged as a potent tool for deception, raising concerns about misinformation, security, and digital authenticity. This study introduces a novel multi-granular artifact detection framework to distinguish between real and AI-generated images with high precision. By leveraging deep learning techniques and a custom convolutional architecture, the approach identifies intrinsic and extrinsic inconsistencies left by synthetic media generation processes. Extensive experiments across diverse datasets validate the robustness of the model, demonstrating superior generalization across both seen and unseen deepfake samples. The research provides a step forward in forensic AI, ensuring enhanced media integrity and mitigating the growing threats posed by deepfake technology
The Head, the Heart, the Hand: What makes a Technician
No full textThis exhibition, in the Lethaby Gallery for the month of February 2025, recognises the fundamental role of the creative arts technician in Higher Education, at Central Saint Martins.
With over 130 technical staff within Central Saint Martins, technicians play a vital role in the students’ university experience. The technicians’ extensive skills and expertise as makers, innovators, problem solvers, and educators, ensure that they successfully support the students throughout their learning journey and their creative process.
The artefacts within this exhibition seek to begin to acknowledge the technicians teaching, knowledge exchange, and interaction with the student
Generative AI for Affective Vibration: Human-Centered Evaluation of LLM and VAE Models
Get PDFHaptic feedback plays a significant role in expressing emotions, however, there is a lack of research on haptics compared with visual and audio channels. In this paper we investigate AI and machine learning methodologies for generating affective vibrotactile feedback. Two generative AI (GenAI) approaches to vibration generation were examined using a custom dataset of vibrationemotion pairings: a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) approach and a f ine-tuned large language model (LLM) approach. A quantitative user study involving 15 people validated the GenAIs’ capabilities to generate vibrations conveying a range of levels of emotion valence or arousal. Subjective interviews were conducted afterwards which provided valuable insights for multimodal interaction design and future research topics of affective haptics
Maternal Machines: Imagining Experiences in Perinatal Care
No full textPerinatal care is a term that broadly refers to the period of time from pregnancy up to a year after giving birth. Imaginaries, fictional scenarios, patents and actual designs to support affected stakeholders during this period reflect how this topic has for a long time fed into society's dreams, fears and desires about care. Smart monitors of infants’ sleep, respiration, heart rate or temperature, cots with facial recognition, swing chairs that are ‘Alexa compatible’, chatbots for postpartum depression, ‘maternal’ Alexas or nanny robots are examples of the potentials that this topic offers for imagining scenarios for care and wellbeing. Often rich with insights about societal dreams, fears and desires about what we would like technologies to do for us, imagined scenarios can also indicate ways in which we regard those already engaged in roles of care, echoing cultural and gendered tropes. As AI and related technologies increasingly become entangled in situations of care, the imagined possibilities in contexts of such complex, sensitive and emotionally charged spaces are worth examining, whilst interrogating how HCI technologies in perinatal care could expand beyond quantifiable data and tap into sensorial, non-numerical forms of knowledge.
In this workshop, we will look at ideated scenarios with technologies related to maternal and infant care in contemporary, historical and cultural contexts including those from Japan, and we will create our own imagined scenarios of care. Through a mixture of activities that include presentations, drawing, hands-on interactions and group conversations we will discuss opportunities and implications in the design of technologies for maternal/parental and infant care around the perinatal period. Our imagined scenarios will explore in particular two interrelated themes in the research: non-numerical forms of knowledge and touch