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COMPUTERISED SOCIETY & DIGITAL CITIZENS

HOW ARE WE IMPACTED AND TRANSFORMED BY OUR DEPENDENCE ON COMPUTING SYSTEMS?

Our academics are delivering high impact research to understand big societal questions around how citizens can be empowered to digitally – and interactively - engage with governments, political organisations, healthcare providers and civic authorities on a local and national scale.

This includes issues from how health and social care delivery is shaped by interactive technology, to how citizens are susceptible to cyber-attacks, and how all citizens – regardless of identity or background - are given equal voice in a digital world.

 

RESEARCHING HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTIONS

Northumbria University has one of the largest groupings of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) researchers in the UK, bringing together a collective of experts in interaction design, usability and user experience (UX), social media and social computing, and user-centred approaches to trust, privacy and security.

The peak of excellence in this area has a track record in delivering outstanding, internationally leading research that generates new understandings of how society and citizens are impacted upon, and transformed by, our dependence on computing.

This, necessarily inter-disciplinary, research regularly attracts significant UKRI and EU funding and is routinely conducted in partnership with a huge range of UK and international partners from academia, the public sector, media, business and industry.



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