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.
ACADEMIC LEAD
Professor Shaun Lawson
