Elaine Czech
Research Associate.
My work is associated with BIG::Diverse & BIG::Health. My research themes and interests include accessibility, co-design, inclusion, ux, design, older adults & well-being.
Elaine Czech is a Research Associate working with Aisling O'Kane and Kenton O'Hara on the TORUS research program to co-design a technological system to monitor and measure Parkinson's disease symptoms. Elaine has a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bristol, masters in Media Design from Keio University, and a bachelors in Art and Design from the University of Michigan. She considers herself to be a design researcher focussed on grounding design work in academic literature, social theory, and community-based participatory design work. She is particularly interested in designing technologies to positively support social interdependencies between users.
Collaborators
Faculty
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Oussama Metatla
Associate Professor of HCI and co-director of BIG -
Paul Marshall
Associate Professor of Human Computer Interaction -
Kenton O'Hara
Professor of Human-Computer Interaction -
Aisling O'Kane
Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction for Health
Recent Publications
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Sense-O-Nary: Exploring Children's Crossmodal Metaphors Through Playful Crossmodal Interactions
Tegan Roberts-Morgan, Brooke Morris, Elaine Czech, Suhan Neema, Abigale Stangl, Kyle Keane, Matthew Horton, Janet Read & Oussama Metatla
IDC '24: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children 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. -
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. -
Independence for Whom? A Critical Discourse Analysis of Onboarding a Home Health Monitoring System for Older Adult Care
Elaine Czech, Ewan Soubutts, Rachel Eardley & Aisling O'Kane
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023. -
The Shifting Sands of Labour: Changes in Shared Care Work with a Smart Home Health System
Ewan Soubutts, Elaine Czech, Amid Ayobi, Rachel Eardley, Kirsten Cater & Aisling O'Kane
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023.