Prof. Peter Wright

PositionProfessor of Social Computing
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Telephone+44-(0)-191-222-8218
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MailSchool of Computing Science,
Newcastle University,
Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
OfficeRoom 1010, Claremont Tower
Peter Wright is Professor of Social Computing at Newcastle University. He has over twenty years of experience as a human-centred design researcher and over 130 publications in the area of human-computer interaction and experience-centred design. His current projects focus on health-related services and technologies. At Newcastle he is involved with the EPSRC Social Inclusion and the Digital Economy (SiDE) hub. He is PI on the ESRC (NDA) Landscapes of cross-generational engagement project, and Co-lead on the NIHR, User-Centred Healthcare Design project. He is Co-I on the EPSRC SMART 2 project, sand until recently he was Co-I on the EPSRC Future Bathroom project. Peter is best known for his work on theory and methods for experience-centred design. In 2004, his co-authored with John McCarthy Technology as Experience (MIT Press)which sets out a new theoretical foundation for user experience research. In 2010, again with John McCarthy, he co-authored Experience-centred design: Designers, users and communities in dialogue (Morgan Claypool), which describes contemporary methods of experience-centred design.