About: Nick Taylor

Nick Taylor is a research associate in Culture Lab, researching the use of technology to support communities. This includes both the development of novel technologies to support social interactions in news ways and studying behaviours around these technologies. He is especially interested in the use of prototypes deployed 'in the wild' to capture real usage over prolonged periods of time and participatory approaches to engage communities in developing technologies. He received his PhD from Lancaster University.
http://www.nick-taylor.co.uk

Publications

2012

Digital Heritage to Address Contemporary Social Problems (2012) Nick Taylor, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier, Proc. CHI 2012 Workshop on Heritage Matters: Designing for Current and Future Values Through Digital and Social Technologies

Ongoing Support for Deployments in the Wild (2012) Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst, DIS 2012 Workshop on Research in the Wild: Understanding 'In the Wild' Approaches to Design and Development

Opportunistic Engagement by Designing on the Street (2012) Stephen Linsday, Nick Taylor, Patrick Olivier, Ext. Abstracts CHI 2012, ACM

StoryCrate: Tabletop Storyboarding for Live Film Production (2012) Tom Bartindale, Alia Sheikh, Nick Taylor, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier, Proc. CHI 2012, p. 169-178, ACM, url

Supporting Community Awareness and History with Interactive Displays (2012) Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst, Computer, url

The Design, Deployment and Evaluation of Situated Display based Systems to Support Coordination and Community (2012) Keith Cheverst, Faisal Taher, Fisher Matthew, Daniel Fitton, Nick Taylor, Ubiquitous Display Environments, Antonio Krüger, Tsvi Kuflik (ed.), Springer

Viewpoint: Empowering Communities with Situated Voting Devices (2012) Nick Taylor, Justin Marshall, Alicia Blum-Ross, John Mills, Jon Rogers, Paul Egglestone, David M. Frohlich, Peter Wright, Patrick Olivier, Proc. CHI 2012, p. 1361-1370, New York: ACM, url

2011

Rural Communities and Pervasive Advertising (2011) Nick Taylor, K Cheverst, Pervasive Advertising, Jörg Müller, Florian Alt, Daniel Michelis (ed.), p. 269-286, Springer, url

Supporting Village Community through Connected Situated Displays (2011) Nick Taylor, pdf

2010

Creating a rural community display with local engagement (2010) Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst, Proc. DIS 2010, p. 218-227, New York, New York, USA: ACM, url

2009

Experiences of Supporting Local and Remote Mobile Phone Interaction in Situated Public Display Deployments (2009) Jörg Müller, Keith Cheverst, Dan Fitton, Nick Taylor, Oliver Paczkowski, Antonio Krüger, International Journal of Mobile Human–Computer Interaction 12(2), p. 1-21, url

Social interaction around a rural community photo display (2009) Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 67(12), p. 1037-1047, url

2008

"This might be stupid, but...": participatory design with community displays and postcards (2008) Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst, Proc. OZCHI 2008, p. 41-48, ACM Press, url

2007

Probing communities: study of a village photo display (2007) Nick Taylor, Keith Cheverst, Dan Fitton, Nicholas J. P. Race, Mark Rouncefield, Connor Graham, Proc. OZCHI 2007, p. 17, New York, New York, USA: ACM Press, url

Associated Projects

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  Enabling Simple Public Voting and Consultation in Local Communities

  This project builds on the Bespoke project, which resulted in the deployment Viewpoint, a public voting device inspired by difficulties encountered when attempting to encourage residents in a Preston estate to voice their opinions. Many residents did ...
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  BinCam

  BinCam is a two-part personal informatics system designed to increase individuals’ awareness of their food waste and recycling behaviour. It uses a standard kitchen bin augmented with a mobile phone to automatically capture and log an individual’s ...
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  Family Hedge/Talking Memory Box

  The ‘Talking Memory Box’ was developed to allow people to digitally record, store and playback stories. It was designed for families and schools, allowing people to record and share stories and experiences that are associated with both people and an
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  Viewpoint

  Viewpoint is a simple, lightweight voting mechanism de­signed to allow organizations and elected representatives to solicit feedback from a community and provide residents with a ‘voice’ in local matters. Councillors and community groups can post weekly
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  Bespoke: Increasing Social Inclusion through Community Journalism and Bespoke Design

  Many people in the UK are currently excluded from the benefits of digital technologies and the connections to other people, businesses and groups that these provide. These technologies are not affordable by the poor and not usable by many older or disa...