Dr. Daniel Harrison

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A collection of general posts.

PhD Graduation Day!
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PhD Graduation Day!

Posted on 12th March 20227th November 2022 by Danny

This day was a long time coming… Getting on ten years since I started my PhD, and two and a half years after I defended…

PhD Thesis: The Self-Tracker’s Journey: situated engagement and non-engagement with personal informatics systems over time
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PhD Thesis: The Self-Tracker’s Journey: situated engagement and non-engagement with personal informatics systems over time

Posted on 3rd April 20207th November 2022 by Danny

My PhD thesis is now available to download.

Successful PhD Viva/ Defence @ UCL Interaction Centre
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Successful PhD Viva/ Defence @ UCL Interaction Centre

Posted on 14th November 20197th November 2022 by Danny

In a viva lasting almost four hours, today I successfully defended my PhD thesis, titled: The Self-Tracker’s Journey: situated engagement and non-engagement with personal informatics…

Digital Wellbeing Workshop @ CHI’2019
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Digital Wellbeing Workshop @ CHI’2019

Posted on 5th May 20197th November 2022 by Danny

A CHI2019 workshop on Digital Wellbeing. Traditionally, many consumer-focused technologies have been designed to maximize user engagement with their products and services. More recently, many…

New Publication: “A review of physical-activity tracking technologies and how to assess their effectiveness”
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New Publication: “A review of physical-activity tracking technologies and how to assess their effectiveness”

Posted on 8th October 201718th October 2022 by Danny

The paper that I presented at the first GAMO symposium back in May 2017 is now published and online. Download it here. Abstract Interest in…

Get a Move On Symposium – May 2017
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Get a Move On Symposium – May 2017

Posted on 26th May 201724th June 2017 by Danny

Earlier this year I submitted an application to get funding to write a white paper for the EPSRC-funded Get a Move On (GAMO) network. I …

Research Through Design 2017 @ National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
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Research Through Design 2017 @ National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh

Posted on 25th March 201727th June 2017 by Danny

I just returned from my (first ever!) trip to Scotland, to present our research on Thinga.Me to attendees at Research Through Design 2017, hosted at the…

Presenting Physical Things Digitally: New Collecting Practices
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Presenting Physical Things Digitally: New Collecting Practices

Posted on 19th March 201715th October 2022 by Danny

My accepted paper for the Research Through Design (RTD 2017) conference in Edinburgh this year. The motivations for collecting and the idiosyncrasies of physical and…

A short writing retreat in Italy
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A short writing retreat in Italy

Posted on 5th February 201724th June 2017 by Danny

We just got back from a few days away, writing, in northern Italy. We were half way up a mountain, in the small town of…

Thinga.Me is Released!
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Thinga.Me is Released!

Posted on 7th July 201625th June 2017 by Danny

Thinga.Me, the app that I was working on during my internship in the Human Experience and Design group at Microsoft Research Cambridge has just been released…

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Hello. I'm (Dr.) Danny. I'm an Assistant Professor in The School of Design, at Northumbria University.

My research interests lie in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), I'm interested in how technology can support people's health and wellbeing - see more details on my research page. Outside of work I like to take photographs and ride bikes.

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