Andy Garbett
Software Engineer / Interaction Designer / UX Researcher
Research Projects
The projects listed below are technologies that I designed and developed as part of my research at University of Lincoln and Newcastle University.
ThinkActive.io
Encouraging primary aged school children to reflect on their personal activity data in the classroom
ThinkActive uses inexpensive activity trackers combined with a classroom situated base station and pseudonymous avatars to engage primary school children in understanding their personal informatics data. Designed in collaboration with Newcastle United Foundation the ThinkActive system demonstrates the potential to understand activity tracking at the population level.
App Movement
A community commissioning platform to automatically generate mobile apps
App Movement enables any individual, community or organization to propose, design and automatically generate a multi-platform mobile application. The platform enables communities to propose, design and deploy their own mobile application solutions to issues faced by their community.
IRISMsg.io
A distributed community SMS donation platform inspired by the Solidarity Economy
Iris, is a system that allows sending SMS text messages to a list of subscribers through SMS donors. People supporting your organisation, group or case can sign up to become 'donors' and donate a number of their SMS messages for your cause. Every time that you need to send a text to a list of subscribers (e.g. volunteers, staff, followers etc.) you share the cost of the text messages sent.
Collections Dive
A novel discovery interface for exploring online museum collections.
In collaboration with Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums, Nesta and Microsoft Research, I developed a novel discovery interface that aims to improve public access and engagement with digital heritage collections. The exploratory web platform and novel search interface has been implemented as part of the Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums’ online collections and aims to encourage people to search and discover museum content online.
Feed Finder
Enabling mothers to create community driven information resource around breastfeeding in public.
The FeedFinder app enables new mothers to locate suitable breastfeeding locations nearby. Mothers can also rate and review the places they visit and contribute to the worldwide mapping of breastfeeding friendly locations. The app is available on both iOS and Android and has 8000+ active users. The project has been developed in conjunction with NHS staff and new mothers in the North East of England.
Sleepful.me
A Sleep Social Network for the delivery of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for those living with Insomnia.
Sleepful is a social network designed to improve access to evidence-based guided self-help for insomnia. The platform delivers Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in a group setting for those living with insomnia in order to promote healthy sleeping behaviours and provides both education and social connection to those also living with this condition.
Ph.D. Thesis
Designing Community Driven Participatory Platforms: Reconfiguring Roles, Resources, Infrastructure, and Constraints for Community Commissioning.
Ph.D. Computing Science (Human-Computer Interaction)
Open Lab, School of Computing Science, Newcastle Unviersity, 2017. (pdf)
- Launched an online platform that enables communities to collaboratively design and automatically generate location-based review mobile apps resulting in ~125,000 users and 24 mobile applications.
- Explored the design of tools, platforms, and services to maximize reach and depth of citizen participation in the generation of community-driven information resources.
Recent Talk
ThinkActive: Designing for Pseudonymous Activity Tracking in the Classroom
Andrew Garbett, David Chatting, Gerard Wilkinson, Clement Lee, Ahmed Kharrufa. In Proc. CHI 2018. ACM.
Publications
Full publication list can be found on Google Scholar.
2019
CryptoCam: Privacy Conscious Open Circuit Television
Gerard Wilkinson, Dan Jackson, Andrew Garbett, Reuben Kirkham, Kyle Montague
arXiv preprint. arXiv:2004.08602. (pdf)
Integrating Health Technologies in Health Services for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Qualitative Study
Reem Talhouk, Chaza Akik, Vera Araujo-Soares, Balsam Ahmad, Sandra Mesmar, Patrick Olivier, Madeline Balaam, Kyle Montague, Andrew Garbett, Hala Ghattas
Journal of Medical Internet Research. JMIR Publications Inc. (pdf)
Involving Syrian refugees in design research: Lessons learnt from the field
Reem Talhouk, Madeline Balaam, Austin L Toombs, Andrew Garbett, Chaza Akik, Hala Ghattas, Vera Araujo-Soares, Balsam Ahmad, Kyle Montague
In Proc. DIS 2019. ACM. (pdf)
Vocalising Violence: Using violent mens' voices for service delivery and feedback
Rosanna Bellini, Jay Rainey, Andrew Garbett, Pamela Briggs
In Proc. Communities & Technologies 2019. ACM. (pdf)
A Call For Embedding Dignity In Humanitarian Technologies
Reem Talhouk, Kyle Montague, Andrew Garbett, Vera Araújo-Soares, Chaza Akik, Hala Ghattas, Balsam Ahmad, Madeline Balaam
In Proc. Communities & Technologies 2019. ACM. (pdf)
WhatFutures: Designing Large-Scale Engagements on WhatsApp
Daniel Lambton-Howard, Robert Anderson, Kyle Montague, Andrew Garbett, Shaun Hazeldine, Carlos Alvarez, John A Sweeney, Patrick Olivier, Ahmed Kharrufa, Tom Nappey
In Proc. CHI 2019. ACM. (pdf)
Weaving the topics of CHI: Using citation network analysis to explore emerging trends
Clement Lee, Andrew Garbett, Junyan Wang, Bingzhang Hu, Dan Jackson
Extended Abstract CHI 2019. ACM. (pdf)
2018
Blockchain for Refugees: Current Uses, Opportunites and Considerations
Reem Talhouk, Kyle Montague, Andrew Garbett
Presented at CHI 2018 workshop on 'HCI for Blockchain: Studying, Critiquing, Designing, and Envisioning Distributed Ledger Technologies'. ACM. (pdf)
ThinkActive: Designing for Pseudonymous Activity Tracking in the Classroom
Andrew Garbett, David Chatting, Gerard Wilkinson, Clement Lee, Ahmed Kharrufa
In Proc. CHI 2018. ACM. (pdf)
A Network Epidemic Model for Online Community Commissioning Data
Clement Lee, Andrew Garbett, Darren J. Wilkinson
In Statistics and Computing 2018. Springer. (pdf)
'Protection on that Erection?': Discourses of Accountability & Compromising Participation in Digital Sexual Health
Matthew Wood, Andrew Garbett, Kellie Morrissey, Peter Hopkins, Madeline Balaam
In Proc. CHI 2018. ACM. (pdf)
2017
Care and Connect: Exploring Dementia-friendliness Through an Online Community Commissioning Platform
Kellie Morrissey, Andrew Garbett, Edward Jenkins, Patrick Olivier, Pete Wright, Katie Brittain
In Proc. CHI 2017. ACM. (pdf)
Experiences of Delivering a Public Health Data Service
Emma Simpson, Robert Comber, Andrew Garbett, Edward Jenkins, Madeline Balaam
In Proc. CHI 2017. ACM. (pdf)
On Speculative Enactments
Chris Elsden, David Chatting, Andrew Garbett, Bettina Nissen, David Kirk, John Vines, Abigail Durrant
In Proc. CHI 2017. ACM. (pdf)
2016
Factors Important For Women Who Breastfeed in Public: A Content Analysis of Review Data from FeedFinder
Emma Simpson, Andrew Garbett, Robert Comber, Madeline Balaam
In BMJ Open. BMJ Publishing Group. (pdf)
App Movement: A Platform for Community Commissioning of Mobile Applications
Andrew Garbett, Robert Comber, Ed Jenkins, Patrick Olivier
In Proc CHI 2016. ACM. (pdf)
Metadating: Exploring the Romance and Future of Personal Data
Chris Elsden, Bettina Nissen, Andrew Garbett, David Chatting, David S. Kirk, John Vines
In Proc CHI 2016. ACM. (pdf)
I Don’t Know What I’m Looking For: Better Understanding Public Usage and Behaviours with Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Online Collections
John Coburn, Andrew Garbett, Phil Gossett, Richard Harper, Peter Wright
In Proc. Museums and the Web 2016. Archives & Museum Informatics. (pdf)
2015
FeedFinder: A Location-mapping Mobile Application for Breastfeeding Women
Madeline Balaam, Robert Comber, Ed Jenkins, Andrew Garbett
In Proc CHI 2015. ACM. (pdf)
2014
Finding Real People: Trust and Diversity in the Interface Between Professional and Citizen Journalists
Andrew Garbett, Robert Comber, Paul Egglestone, Maxine Glancy, Patrick Olivier
In Proc CHI 2014. ACM. (pdf)
Fearsquare: Hacking Open Crime Data to Critique, Jam and Subvert the 'Aesthetic of Danger'
Andrew Garbett, Jamie Wardman, Ben Kirman, Conor Linehan, Shaun Lawson
In Proc HCI Korea 2014. ACM. (pdf)
2013
Validating a Mobile Phone Application for the Everyday, Unobtrusive, Objective Measurement of Sleep
Shaun Lawson, Sue Jamison-Powell, Andrew Garbett, Conor Linehan, Erica Kucharczyk, Sanne Verbaan, Duncan Rowland, Kevin Morgan
In Proc CHI 2013. ACM. (pdf)
2012
How Dangerous is Your Life? Personalising Government Open Crime Data
Andrew Garbett, Conor Linehan, Ben Kirman, Jamie Wardman, Shaun Lawson
Presented at ACM CHI 2012 Workshop on Personal Informatics in Practice: Improving Quality of Life Through Data. ACM. (pdf)
I Can't Get No Sleep: Discussing #insomnia on Twitter
Sue Jamison-Powell, Conor Linehan, Laura Daley, Andrew Garbett, Shaun Lawson
In Proc CHI 2012. ACM. (pdf)
Conferences & Events
2019
June - Chain Re:Action: Feminist Thinking & Community Economies in Blockchain, Glasgow, UK
Chain Re:Action: Feminist Thinking & Community Economies in Blockchain
May - ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing 2019, Glasgow, UK
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing 2019
Feb - Fuse Event: Exploring Government Open Data to Promote Breastfeeding, Newcastle, UK
Fuse Event: Exploring Government Open Data to Promote Breastfeeding
Jan - UK GOV Distributed Ledger Technology Community of Interest, London, UK
UK GOV Distributed Ledger Technology Community of Interest
Sept - T3 Tech Innovation for the Future Awards, London, UK
T3 Tech Innovation for the Future Awards
2018
Sept - T3 Tech Innovation Forum, Newcastle, UK
T3 Tech Innovation Forum
April - ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing 2018, Montreal, Canada
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing 2018
2017
June - 8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Troyes, France
8th International Conference on Communities and Technologies
June - 4th European Solidarity Economy Congress, Athens, Greece
4th European Solidarity Economy Congress
May - National Workers Education Association 'Get Connected' membership event, Newcastle, UK
National Workers Education Association 'Get Connected' membership event
Jan - CHERISH Digital Economy Centre Networking Event, Swansea, UK
CHERISH Digital Economy Centre Networking Event
2016
Dec - Remake a Museum: Great North Museum Design Challenge Hack Event, Newcastle, UK
Remake a Museum: Great North Museum Design Challenge Hack Event
June - Foundation for Art and Creative Technology: Designing Digital Now Exhibition, Liverpool, UK
Foundation for Art and Creative Technology: Designing Digital Now Exhibition
May - ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing 2016, (SanJose, USA
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing 2016
March - The Creative Exchange All Hands Meet, Lancaster, UK
The Creative Exchange All Hands Meet
Feb - International Development Conference 2016, Newcastle, UK
International Development Conference 2016
2015
Dec - Digital Economy 'Connected Nation: Thriving in a Digital World' at British Library, London, UK
Digital Economy 'Connected Nation: Thriving in a Digital World' at British Library
Dec - Dementia Friendly Communities Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK
Dementia Friendly Communities Annual Conference
Nov - The Creative Exchange: Driving Value and Business Innovation through Collaboration at House of Commons, London, UK
The Creative Exchange: Driving Value and Business Innovation through Collaboration at House of Commons
July - British HCI, Lincoln, UK
British HCI
May - Create4Dementia Hack Event, Newcastle, UK
Create4Dementia Hack Event
May - ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing, Seoul, Korea
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing
March - The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2015, London, UK
The Impacts of Civic Technology Conference 2015
2014
July - Digital Democracy: Alive to Engagement, Cardiff, UK
Digital Democracy: Alive to Engagement
June - ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, Newcastle, UK
ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video
May - ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing, Toronto, Canada
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing
2013
Nov - Rewired State Parliament Hackathon #Parlihack2013, London, UK
Rewired State Parliament Hackathon #Parlihack2013
Oct - BBC #NewsHack2013 Hack Event, London, UK
BBC #NewsHack2013 Hack Event
Sept - The Creative Exchange: Knowledge Exchange Conference, Lancaster, UK
The Creative Exchange: Knowledge Exchange Conference
May - ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing, Paris, France
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing
2012
Sept - HCI2012 People and Computers XXVI, Birmingham, UK
HCI2012 People and Computers XXVI
May - ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing, Austin, USA
ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing