Brooke Morris
PhD Student.
My work is associated with BIG::Diverse. My research themes and interests include accessibility, autism, double empathy problem, neurodiverse play, neurodiversity & social play.
Brooke Morris is a PhD student supervised by Dr Oussama Metatla and Dr Alison Oldfield. Her research focuses on developing inclusive social play technologies for neurodiverse groups of children.
Collaborators
Faculty
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Oussama Metatla
Associate Professor of HCI and co-director of BIG
Visiting & Honorary
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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. -
"It Helps Us Express Our Feelings Without Having To Say Anything": Exploring Accompanying Social Play Things Designed With and For Neurodiverse Groups of Children
Brooke Morris, Hayati Havlucu, Alison Oldfield & Oussama Metatla
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. Best Paper -
Plushonas: Exploring Neurodiverse Social Play With Children and Their Parents Through Expanded Proxy Design
Zoë Clark, Brooke Morris, Elaine Czech, Hayati Havlucu & Oussama Metatla
Proceedings of the 37th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference, 2024. -
"He always wanted to be far": Exploring Expanded Proxies to Design Social Play Experiences with Autistic and Neurotypical Children
Zoe Clark, Brooke Morris, Elaine Czech, Hayati Havlucu & Oussama Metatla
Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2024.