As Research Fellow at Cardiff Met, I am part of a team that recently secured Welsh Government SMART Expertise funding to evaluate the health and wellbeing benefits of HUG. This is being done in collaboration with the NHS, ...
Co-design for dementia with Men’s Shed charity
This project builds on the relationship between LAUGH and Squirrel’s Nest Men’s Shed in Tondu. Men’s Shed is an organisation that supports the mental health of men in ...
‘Open Doors’ project with Men’s Shed (Cardiff Met)
Research
The LAUGH (Ludic Artefacts Using Gesture and Haptics) research project has developed a series of innovative playful devices that amuse, distract, comfort engage, bring joy, and promote ‘in the moment’ living for people ...
This book introduces a new approach in offering designed support for personal memories by looking at how people access their memories. The work identifies a valuable but very challenging aspect, involuntary memory, which ...
A workbook for Chance Memories
Research
Often, the approach for memory support systems is to support prescribed explicit, intense and pro active memory recall instalments. Focusing on making people more productive in keeping evidence of memories in pure ...
(PhD research, completed February 2015) Designs for chance memories introduce proposals that promote new thinking around how design might support personal remembering.
People give huge importance to preserving their ...
There are examples of unexpected remembering in everyday situations and the following proposals are inspired by a design exploration that collected evidence of these. I asked a group of people to join me in recording all ...
Tales of the unexpected
Research
A series of plinths consider the role of memorabilia in triggering personal memories and how interactions with them might be enhanced to offer new ways of exploring the past. The plinths have different characteristics and ...
Insight studies at the car boot sale
Car boot sales offer once cherished objects a second lease of life, with objects arranged on paste table bidding for the attention of a new owner. Looking specifically at ...
Second-hand memories
Research
Interviews and observations around memorabilia at home, conducted to gain deeper understanding around what people class as memorabilia and how they are used for personal reminiscing.
Where photos are created to ...
Memorabilia studies
Research
Memory China is a teapot that records conversations around the dinner table into its lid, and plays the conversations back into the body of the teapot. Inspiration for this concept comes from the ritual of 'getting out the ...
