HCI, Work-Life Balance, Wellbeing, Productivity, Cross-Device Experience, Computer-Mediated Communication, Personal Information Management, Personal Informatics, Social Psychology.
Our paper “Why lose control?” A Study of Freelancers’ Experiences with Gig Economy Platforms” has received Best Paper award at CHI 2021. This is given to the top 1% of submissions to highlight a paper of particularly high quality and that stands above other submissions in terms of overall quality, novelty, and/or potential for impact.
I was interviewed live by Deutsche Welle TV News , Germany’s international broadcaster on their show ‘The Day’ about work-life balance in the gig economy [22 Feb 2021].
We have submitted written evidence to the UK Parliament, in response to two inquires – one from the Lords’ Select Committee Covid-19 Committee “Living Online: The Long-Term Impact On Wellbeing” and one from Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee in response to the evidence call, “The impact of coronavirus on businesses and worker”.
I am the Athena SWAN Lead for the Computer and Information Sciences Dept. at Northumbria University.
May 2021 | CHI 2021 @ online
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Adding to Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of our NORTH Lab online panel series, I’ve once again summarised the discussions and presentations below. It’s interesting to see how discussions evolve week on week, and this time they seemed to Read more…
Following on from Part 1 and Part 2 of our NORTH Lab online panel series, below are my notes on yesterday’s discussions, which have been probably the most thought-provoking of all for me. I personally Read more…