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Abstract: Digital technologies are now used across the human lifespan. In this seminar, I'll discuss my HCI research that explores the current roles of digital technologies across transitional human life events (becoming an adult, becoming a parent, breaking up, retiring, end of life ), and the ways in which digital technologies could be designed to support these life transitions better. A central theme is the need to design for endings as well as beginnings.
Bio: Dr Wendy Moncur, FRSA is a Reader in Socio-Digital Interaction at the University of Dundee, where she leads the Living Digital group (www.livingdigital.ac.uk). She is also a Visiting Scholar at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, and an Associate of the Centre for Death and Society (University of Bath). She has held an EPSRC Personal Fellowship and been a Principal Investigator/ Co-investigator on grants totalling £1.6 Million since 2011.
Intrinsically interdisciplinary, yet grounded in Computing, Moncur’s research program focuses on the design of technology to support being human in a Digital Age. Supported by a personal EPSRC Fellowship for “Digital Inheritance”, she has examined how personal data is bequeathed, inherited and repurposed (2011-2015). She is currently Principal Investigator on the EPSRC-funded research program “Charting the Digital Lifespan”, which unites leading researchers at five UK institutions across the social and computer sciences (2013-2016). This research program investigates how the digital is woven into the fabric of people’s lives both now and in a future where citizens have lived entirely in a Digital Age. Moncur’s research has also explored the design and use of technology during other significant points across the human lifespan, including serious illness and relationship breakdown. Full details of Moncur’s publications can be found at http://bit.ly/1kQx2zH. Her next research project ‘TAPESTRY’ is funded under the EPSRC TIPS program, and will explore normative online behaviour in social groups.
Moncur shares the results of her research with the public at festivals (e.g. Edinburgh Turing Festival 2012, Cheltenham Literature Festival 2013), with policy-makers (e.g. provision of written evidence to the 2014 UK Commons Committee on Social Media Data and Real Time Analytics), and the media (e.g. BBC, The Times, CNN). Before moving into academia, she worked in Information Technology in Manufacturing, Utilities and Financial Services sectors, including a FTSE-100 bank.
- Speaker
- Wendy Moncur
- Hosted by
- Bruce Scharlau
- Venue
- Meston 311