BIG::Diverse is for Cross-Sensory Interaction, Disability, and Mixed-Ability
In the Diverse-ability Interaction Lab (Dive lab), we aim to transform conceptions of assistive technology, accessibility and inclusion in human society.
We do this by investigating how to design, engineer and evaluate multisensory and cross-sensory interactive technologies in ways that make them inclusive of both disabled and non-disabled people.
We work very closely with partner communities, charities, services and user groups, and we use a mixed-methods approach in our research, combining theory with field work and co-design, and controlled studies with in-situ evaluations.
We apply our research across a range of domains and contexts, from education to work and leisure, and across a wide span of age groups from pre-schoolers, to young people and senior adults. You can read more about our work on our website.
BIG::Diverse Members
Doctoral Students
Faculty
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Oussama Metatla
Associate Professor of HCI and co-director of BIG -
Dan Bennett
Lecturer in Human-Computer Interaction
Researchers
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Min Susan Li
Research Associate -
Zhuzhi Fan
Research Associate -
Jialin Deng
Research Associate -
Amy Ingold
Research Associate -
Elaine Czech
Research Associate
Visiting & Honorary
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Feng Feng
Visiting Researcher -
Ute Leonards
Professor of Neuropsychology -
Liz Coulthard
Professor of Cognitive Neurology -
Cecily Morrison
Senior Principal Research Manager, Microsoft -
Alison Oldfield
Lecturer in Education
Recent Publications
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Beyond Categories: Capturing the Characteristics, Context, Contributions and Complexity of Neurodiverse Social Play
Brooke Morris, Alison Oldfield & Oussama Metatla
IDC Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2025. Honorable Mention -
“Blue tastes like salt. It just does”: Exploring generational differences in the construction of cross-sensory metaphors
Tegan Roberts-Morgan, Brooke Morris, Min Susan Li, Amy Ingold, Matthew Horton, Janet Read, Dan Bennett & Oussama Metatla
IDC Conference on Interaction Design and Children, 2025. -
"Put Your Hands Up": How Joint Attention Is Initiated Between Blind Children And Their Sighted Peers
Katherine Jones, Martin Grayson, Cecily Morrison, Ute Leonards & Oussama Metatla
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. -
Designing for Neurodiversity in Academia: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Human-Computer Interaction (Special Interest Group)
Alex Tcherdakoff, Grace Stangroome, Ashlee Milton, Catherine Holloway, Marta E. Cecchinato, Antonella Nonnis, Tessa Eagle, Dena Al Thani, Hwajung Hong & Rua M. Williams
{Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. -
Lost in Translation: A Cross-Cultural Examination of Linguistic Inaccessibility in HCI
Eszter Vigh, Ellen Weir, Grace Stangroome, Alex Tcherdakoff, Yelu Gu, Oussama Metatla, Mamoru Watanabe, René Schäfer, Sophie Hahn, Konrad Mikolaj Krawczyk, Marcela Godoy, Rodolfo Cossovich, Randy Morin, Kristine Dreaver-Charles, Marguerite Koole & Frank Lewis
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25), 2025.