Centring care and wellbeing in building online spaces
User interface designer Zoë Gumbs met with Professor Pat Healey as part of a new public research programme from Something to Aim For, who work at the intersection of the arts, learning, health, and wellbeing sectors to provide advocacy and capacity building for artists at the margins of mainstream culture, the creative industries, and wider society.
Zoë Gumbs is an experienced User Interface Designer and Developer, with a demonstrated history of working in the online media industry. Her experience ranges from advertising to pharmaceuticals.
Zoë is especially interested in how tech can be used to enhance the user experience, create open safe spaces, enhance social interaction and innovate approaches to personal care. She brings these sensibilities into her work in developing STAF's new digital platform Us In The Making.
Pat Healey is Professor of Human Interaction in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He leads the Cognitive Science Research Group and is currently a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Pat's research focuses on the ways in which technologies can be used to sense, enrich and augment human-human interaction. He is especially interested in how people detect and deal with misunderstandings.
Pat Healey is Professor of Human Interaction in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London. He leads the Cognitive Science Research Group and is currently a fellow of the Alan Turing Institute. Pat's research focuses on the ways in which technologies can be used to sense, enrich and augment human-human interaction. He is especially interested in how people detect and deal with misunderstandings.
on access and interaction
on detuned conversing
We quite quickly detune our ability to have conversation... not really knowing how to start the conversation or to finish it.
Platforms need to have the intersectional interaction of being tech but also being humanistic. It's about finding the middle ground, and how we can open the floor for that.
on platforms and the responsibility of facilitating societal connections
on hate speech, hope speech and monitoring language
The Something to Aim For What Matters To Me series seeks to develop strategies and frameworks for improving health and wellbeing through the arts, built around collaborations between artists, healthcare professionals, institutions, and researchers.
Commissioned by Queen Mary Arts and Culture, the first What Matters To Me events were a series of research presentations, bringing together artists and researchers to discuss the overlapping interests and concerns within their practices. Watch Zoë Gumbs and Pat Healey's full conversation here.