Staff Profile
Professor Peter Wright
Prof of Social Computing
- Email: p.c.wright@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: +44 191 208 4630
I am Professor of Social Computing in Open Lab. Open Lab is part of the school of Computing and is 缅北禁地’s inter-disciplinary research centre in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). I have thirty years of experience as a human-centred design researcher and have over 230 publications in the area.
My research focusses on the human-centred design of socially engaged digital technologies and an important part of our current research funding in Open Lab is Digital Civics, this includes the EPSRC- funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Digital Civics and the Digital Economy Research Centre. Digital Civics addresses the social and political applications of digital technologies in areas which include health, education, participatory democracy, ageing, and social justice.
I am probably best known for my work with John McCarthy on theory and methods for experience-centred design. In 2004, we co-authored Technology as Experience (MIT Press). In 2010 we co-authored, Experience-centred design: Designers, users and communities in dialogue (Morgan Claypool), and in 2015 we co-authored Taking [A]Part: The politics and aesthetics of experience-centred design (MIT Press).
To get an idea of the range of HCI research in Open Lab, take a look at our web site, . For specific information about our Digital Civics programme, check out or Digital Civics Web site, .
- Bartindale T, Sheikh A, Taylor N, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12). 2012, Austin, Texas, USA: ACM.
- Taylor N, Marshall J, Blum-Ross A, Mills J, Rogers J, Egglestone P, Frohlich D, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI'12). 2012, Austin, Texas, USA: ACM.
- Hook J, Green D, McCarthy J, Taylor S, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: 29th Annual International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: ACM Press.
- Taylor R, Schofield G, Shearer J, Wallace J, Wright P, Boulanger P, Olivier P. . In: 29th Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: ACM, New York, NY, USA.
- Leong TW, Wright P. . In: Digital Engagement. 2011, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne.
- Gaver W, Boucher A, Bowers J, Blythe M, Jarvis N, Cameron D, Kerridge T, Wilkie A, Phillips R, Wright P. . In: Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: ACM Press.
- Wright P, McCarthy J. . New York, USA: Morgan Claypool, 2010.
- Gaver W, Blythe M, Boucher A, Jarvis N, Bowers J, Wright P. . In: CHI 2010: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: ACM Press.
- Leong TW, Wright P, Vetere F, Howard S. . In: 22nd Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference (OZCHI). 2010, Brisbane, Australia: ACM Press.
- Wright PC, McCarthy JM. . In: CHI 2008: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2008, Florence, Italy: ACM.
- Blythe M, Wright P. . Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2008, 12(5), 411-420.
- Taylor R, Schofield G, Hook J, Ladha K, Bowers J, Wright P. . In: CHI EA 2013: Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris: ACM.
- Clarke R, Wright P, Balaam M, McCarthy J. . In: CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris, France: ACM.
- Vines J, Thieme A, Comber R, Blythe M, Wright PC, Olivier P. . In: CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris: ACM Press.
- Taylor N, Cheverst K, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris: ACM.
- Blythe M, Briggs J, Hook J, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris: ACM.
- Hook J, McCarthy J, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: CHI 2013: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris: ACM.
- Hook J, Schofield G, Taylor R, Bartindale T, McCarthy J, Wright P. . In: CHI EA 2012: CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2012, Austin, Texas, USA: ACM Press.
- Vines J, Clarke R, Leong T, Wright P, Light A, Iversen OS. . In: 9th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '12). 2012, 缅北禁地 upon Tyne, UK: ACM Press.
- McCullagh P, Nugent CD, Zheng H, Zhang S, Huang Y, Davies RJ, Black ND, Wright P, Hawley M, Eccleston C, Mawson SJ, Mountain GA. . In: 1st International Congress on Telehealth and Telecare 2011. 2011, London: King's Fund & University Medical Center Utrecht (UMC).
- Kirkham R, Mellor S, Green D, Lin J, Ladha K, Ladha C, Jackson D, Olivier P, Wright P, Ploetz T. . In: ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp). 2013, Zurich, Switzerland: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Gaver W, Blythe M, Boucher A, Jarvis N, Bowers J, Wright P. . In: CHI '10: The SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA: ACM New York, NY, USA.
- Taylor R, Bartindale T, Chaudhry Q, Heslop P, Wright P, Bowers J, Olivier P. . In: Laval Virtual: 16th International Conferences and Exhibition of Virtual Technologies and Uses. 2014, Laval, France: ACM.
- Taylor R, Schofield G, Shearer J, Wright P, Boulanger P, Olivier P. . Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 2014, 18(7), 1583-1600.
- Crivellaro C, Comber R, Bowers J, Wright PC, Olivier P. . In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). 2014, Toronto, Canada: ACM Press.
- Schofield G, Green D, Hook J, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: DE2013: The Fourth Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference. 2013, MediaCityUK, Salford, UK: Digital Economy - RCUK.
- Vines J, Clarke R, Wright P, McCarthy J, Olivier P. . In: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris, France: ACM Press.
- Hook J, Verbaan S, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: DE2013: The Fourth Annual Digital Economy All Hands Conference. 2013, Salford, UK.
- Marshall M, Vines J, Wright P, Kirk DS, Lowe T, Wilson R. . In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. 2018, Montreal QC, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery.
- McNaney R, Vines J, Dow A, Robinson H, Robinson H, McDonald K, Brown L, Santer P, Murray D, Murray J, Green D, Wright P. . In: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). 2018, Montreal, Canada: ACM.
- Vlachokyriakos V, Crivellaro C, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). 2018, Montreal, Canada: ACM.
- Wilkinson G, Bartindale T, Nappey T, Evans M, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. 2018, Montreal QC, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Morrissey K, Garbett A, Wright P, Olivier P, Jenkins EI, Brittain K. . In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.
- Green DP, Schofield G, Pritchard G, Olivier P, Wright P. . In: CHI '17 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, CO, USA: Association for Computing Machinery.
- McCarthy J, Wright P. . Human-Computer Interaction 2017, 32(3), 148-152.
- Meissner JL, Vines J, McLaughlin J, Nappey T, Maksimova J, Wright P. . In: 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 2017, Edinburgh, United Kingdom: ACM.
- Green DP, Bowen S, Hook J, Wright P. . In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.
- Puussaar A, Clear AK, Wright P. . In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.
- Vlachokyriakos V, Crivellaro C, Wright P, Karamagioli E, Staiou E-R, Gouscos D, Thorpe R, Kruger A, Schoning J, Jones M, Lawson S, Olivier P. . In: CHI'17 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. 2017, Denver, Colorado: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Vines J, McNaney R, Holden A, Poliakov I, Wright P, Olivier P. . Interacting with Computers 2017, 29(1), 27-44.
- Taylor R, Spence J, Walker B, Nissen B, Wright P. . In: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17). 2017, Denver, Colorado, USA: ACM.
- Kazakos K, Asthana S, Balaam M, Duggal M, Holden A, Jamir L, Kannuri N, Kumar S, Mamindla A, Manikam A, Murthy M, Nahar P, Phillimore P, Sathyanath S, Singh P, Singh M, Wright P, Yadav D, Olivier P. . In: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 16). 2016, San Jose: ACM.
- Fowler GJS, Pereira-Medrano AG, Jaffe S, Pasternak G, Pham TK, Ledezma P, Hall STE, Ieropoulos IA, Wright PC. . Proteomics 2016, 16(21), 2764-2775.
- Blythe M, Andersen K, Clarke R, Wright P. . In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016. 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: ACM.
- Thieme A, McCarthy J, Johnson P, Wallace J, Lindley S, Ladha K, Jackson D, Nowacka D, Rafiev A, Ladha C, Nappey T, Kipling M, Wright P, Meyer TD, Olivier P. . In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016. 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: ACM.
- Vlachokyriakos V, Crivellaro C, LeDantec C, Gordon E, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016. 2016, Santa Clara, California, USA: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Clarke R, Crivellaro C, Di Mascio D, Wright P. . In: Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Media Architecture Biennale. 2016, Sydney, Australia: ACM New York.
- Crivellaro C, Taylor A, Vlachokyriakos V, Comber R, Nissen B, Wright P. . In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016. 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: ACM Press.
- Bartindale T, Schofield G, Wright P. . In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016. 2016, San Jose, CA, USA: ACM.
- Clarke R, Briggs J, Light A, Wright P. . In: 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2016. 2016, Brisbane, Australia: ACM.
- Clarke R, Briggs J, Light A, Wright P. . In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2016). 2016, Brisbane, Australia: ACM.
- Bowen S, Durrant A, Nissen B, Bowers J, Wright P. . Design Studies 2016, 46, 174-198.
- Bartindale T, Schofield G, Crivellaro C, Wright P. . In: 19th ACM Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW 2016). 2016, San Francisco, USA: ACM.
- Kirk D, Durrant A, Wood G, Leong T, Wright P. . In: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS 2016). 2016, Brisbane, Australia: ACM.
- Kirk DS, Durrant A, Wood G, Leong TW, Wright P. . In: 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2016. 2016, Brisbane, Australia: ACM.
- Sarangapani V, Kharrufa A, Balaam M, Leat D, Wright P. . In: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI 2016. 2016, Florence, Italy: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
- Vines J, Pritchard G, Wright PC, Olivier P, Brittain K. . ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) 2015, 22(1), 2.
- Vines J, Wright P, Silver D, Winchcombe M, Olivier P. . In: ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2015). 2015, Vancouver, Canada: ACM Press.
- Green D, Bowen S, Newell C, Schofield G, Bartindale T, Crivellaro C, Sheik A, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: Proceedings of the 33rd annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI 2015. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM Press.
- Schofield G, Bartindale T, Wright P. . In: CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM Press.
- Crivellaro C, Comber R, Dade-Robertson M, Bowen S, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM.
- Smith T, Bowen S, Nissen B, Bowers J, Hook J, Verhoevan A, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: CHI 2015 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM Press.
- Taylor R, Bowers J, Nissen B, Wood G, Chaudhry Q, Wright P, Bruce L, Glynn S, Mallinson H, Bearpark R. . In: C&C '15 SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition. 2015, Glasgow, United Kingdom: Association for Computing Machinery, Inc.
- Hook J, Clarke R, McCarthy J, Anderson K, Dudman J, Wright P. . In: CHI 2015 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2015, Seoul, South Korea: ACM Press.
- Clarke R, Vines J, Wright P, Bartindale T, Shearer J, McCarthy J, Olivier P. . In: British HCI 2015. 2015, Lincoln, UK: ACM Press.
- McCarthy J, Wright P. . Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2015.
- Vines J, Clarke R, Light A, Wright PC. . International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2015, 74(1), 77-80.
- Evans EH, AraujoSoares V, Adamson AJ, Batterham AM, Brown H, Campbell M, Dombrowski SU, Guest A, Jackson D, Kwasnicka D, Ladha K, McColl E, Olivier P, Rothman AJ, Sainsbury K, Steel AJ, Steen IN, Vale L, White M, Wright P, Sniehotta FF. . Trials 2015, 16, 421.
- Wright P, McCarthy J. . Interactions 2015, 22(6), 26-31.
- Hook J, Verbaan S, Durrant A, Olivier P, Wright P. . In: DIS Companion '14. 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM.
- Schofield G, Green D, Smith T, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: DIS '14 Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems. 2014, Vancouver, BC, Canada: ACM.
- Vines J, Denman-Cleaver T, Dunphy P, Wright P, Olivier P. . In: CHI '14 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2014, Toronto, Canada: ACM.
- Bartindale T, Jackson D, Ladha K, Mellor S, Olivier P, Wright P. . In: TVX '14 Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. 2014, 缅北禁地, UK: ACM.
- Wood G, Vines J, Balaam M, Taylor N, Smith T, Crivellaro C, Mensah J, Limon H, Challis J, Anderson L, Clarke A, Wright PC. . In: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2014, Toronto, ON, Canada: ACM New York, NY, USA.
- Wood G, Vines J, Balaam M, Taylor N, Smith T, Crivellaro C, Mensah J, Limon H, Challis J, Anderson L, Clarke A, Wright PC. . In: 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2014, Toronto, Ontario, Canada: ACM.
- Dunphy P, Vines J, Coles-Kemp L, Clarke R, Vlachokyriakos V, Wright P, McCarthy J, Olivier P. . In: 2014 New Security Paradigms Workshop NSPW '14. 2014, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Nissen B, Bowers J, Wright P, Hook J, Newell C. . In: DIS'14: 2014 conference on Designing interactive systems. 2014, Vancouver, Canada: ACM.
- Obrist M, Wright PC, Kuutti K, Rogers Y, Hook K, Pyla PS, Frechin JL. . In: CHI EA '13: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. 2013, Paris, France: Association for Computing Machinery.
- Meissner JL, Strohmayer A, Wright P, Fitzpatrick G. . In: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings. 2018, Montreal, Canada: Association for Computing Machinery.