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Staff Profile

Dr David Chatting

Designer

Background

David Chatting is an Innovation Fellow at Open Lab, Newcastle University. He is an experienced interaction designer who confronts technical systems through a process he describes as designerly hacking to find alternative design spaces and to make compelling new experiences. He works across a range of emerging and established technologies, being equally comfortable with software and hardware. Over the past 30 years, he has worked with corporate clients, start-ups, artists, and latterly in academia.

David has a PhD in Design from Goldsmiths, University of London; an MA in Design Interactions from the Royal College of Art; and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Birmingham. His recent work concerns the domestication of the Internet, proposing some alternative, practical ways to design technologies for the home. To these ends he takes some critical perspectives on current trends in the design of domestic technologies, and of Internet of Things products in particular.

David was previously a Senior Researcher at BT's Broadband Applications Research Centre and a Visiting Researcher at the MIT Media Lab. He has taught at the Royal College of Art, University College London, as well as Newcastle University.

David holds seven patents for his inventions and has published over twenty peer-reviewed papers in the fields of design research, HCI, tangible interfaces, computer vision, and computer graphics.

David cofounded the Curiosity Collective artist group (2005-2015) and convened the dorkbot anglia talks (2010-2015).

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