Dr Jo Briggs Reader, User Experience

My multidisciplinary research investigates socio-digital aspects of design for interaction and experience. Another vital interest is cocreative methodologies; increasingly necessary in understanding emergent, difficult-to-articulate digital experiences and wider phenomena. Recent work includes using ‘data narratives’ and ‘gamified’ methods that enable research into ‘post-digital’ experiences, meanwhile embedding knowledge exchange into research processes.

I took a MSc (Multimedia Systems TCD –1999/00) to learn how nascent digital tools at that time could be exploited to create interactive, non-linear and collaborative narrative experiences. Following some years teaching interactive media I returned to learning via an early AHRC collaborative doctoral award (Ulster). My thesis investigated the notion of digital cultural literacies in ‘post conflict’ Northern Ireland enabled through collaboration with the Nerve Centre digital hub in L/Derry.

Postdoctoral experience included as researcher on EPSRC Digital Originals, based in Culture Lab, Newcastle and research fellow at Northumbria University. During my fellowship I focussed on grant applications, winning AHRC and ESRC awards as Principal Investigator and contributing to others as Co-investigator. My contributions have enabled more than £3m (fEC) of grants of which around £750,000 has gone to my institution.

I publish across Design and Human Computer Interaction and, given the multidisciplinary nature of my research, the ‘hard’ computer sciences (most recently, Computer Vision), law and the social sciences. The most readily accessible and comprehensive list of my outputs (publications and artefacts) is on ResearchGate.

I am a Peer Review College member for AHRC (Strategic reviewer) and ESRC and occasionally sit on award panels. I also work with the Daphne Jackson Trust evaluating applications for awards that support returners to research.

Other external roles include Oxford Internet Institute (visitor/second PhD supervisor) and Queen’s MediaLab Belfast (programme evaluator and External Examiner).

Contact

j.briggs@mmu.ac.uk

Office

School of Digital Arts

Research

Book Chapters

Light, A., Briggs, J., 2020. 'The Design of Paying Publics'. In CrowdAsset: Crowdfunding for Policymakers, pp. 105-120.

Blythe, M., Hook, J., Briggs, J., 2018. 'From Evaluation to Crits and Conversation'. In Blythe, M., Monk, A. (eds.) Funology 2: from usability to enjoyment, pp. 241-254, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

Journal Articles

Armstrong, A., Briggs, J., Moncur, W., Carey, P., Nicol, E., Schafer, B., 2023. 'Everyday digital traces', Big Data & Society, 10 (2), pp. 1-13.

Armstrong, A., Flynn, E., Salt, K., Briggs, J., Clarke, R., Vines, J., MacDonald, A., 2023. 'Trust and temporality in participatory research', Qualitative Research, 23 (4), pp. 1000-1021.

Schafer, B., Briggs, J., Moncur, W., Nicol, E., Azzopardi, L., 2023. 'What the Dickens: post-mortem privacy and intergenerational trust', Computer Law and Security Review, 49, pp. 105800-105800.

Nicol, E., Briggs, J., Moncur, W., Htait, A., Carey, D.P., Azzopardi, L., Schafer, B., 2022. 'Revealing cumulative risks in online personal information: a data narrative study', Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6 (CSCW2), pp. 323-323.

Steane, J., Briggs, J., Yee, J., 2020. 'T-shifting identities and practices: interaction designers in the fourth industrial age', International Journal of Design, 14 (3), pp. 85-96.

Yang, Y., Cooper, D., Collomosse, J., Dragan, C.C., Manulis, M., Steane, J., Manohar, A., Briggs, J., Jones, H., Moncur, W., 2020. 'TAPESTRY: a de-centralized service for trusted interaction online', IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 15 (3), pp. 1385-1398.

Wilkinson, C., Briggs, J., Salt, K., Vines, J., Flynn, E., 2019. 'In participatory budgeting we trust? Fairness, tactics and (in)accessibility in participatory governance', Local Government Studies, 45 (6), pp. 1001-1020.

Clarke, R.E., Briggs, J., Armstrong, A., MacDonald, A., Vines, J., Flynn, E., Salt, K., 2019. 'Socio-materiality of trust: co-design with a resource limited community organisation', Co-Design, 17 (3), pp. 258-277.

Briggs, J., 2012. 'Investigating situated cultural practices through cross-sectoral digital collaborations: processes, policies, insights', Digital Creativity, 23 (2), pp. 98-112.

Conference Papers

Holmquist, L.E., Briggs, J., 2023. 'Projection mapping in the city: co-creating public digital installations for climate awareness with animation and interaction design undergraduates', EduCHI: 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, Hamburg, Germany, 28/4/2023 - 28/4/2023, in EduCHI '23: Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on HCI Education, pp. 91-95.

Azzopardi, L., Briggs, J., Duheric, M., Nash, C., Nicol, E., Moncur, W., Schafer, B., 2022. 'Are Taylor's posts risky? Evaluating cumulative revelations in online personal data', SIGIR '22: The 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Madrid, Spain, 11/7/2022 - 15/7/2022, in Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 3295-3299.

Green, C.P., Nash, C., Briggs, J., Dong, X., 2022. 'Born in Fair Haven: Procedural Generation of Cultural Sign Systems', 7/7/2022 - 11/7/2022, in Proceedings of DiGRA 2022 Conference: Bringing Worlds Together.

Nash, C., Carey, D., Nicol, E., Htait, A., Schafer, B., Briggs, J., Moncur, W., Azzopardi, L., 2022. 'Making sense of trifles: data narratives and cumulative data disclosure', 23/2/2022 - 26/2/2022, in Jusletter IT, 24 (1), pp. 63-71.

Ruta, D., Gilbert, A., Aggarwal, P., Marri, N., Kale, A., Briggs, J., Speed, C., Jin, H., Faieta, B., Filipkowski, A., Lin, Z., Collomosse, J., 2022. 'StyleBabel: Artistic Style Tagging and Captioning', pp. 219-236.

Nash, C., Briggs, J., Carey, D., Sellers, L., 2021. 'Four Speculative Design F(r)ictions: Designing for Personal Data Awareness', n Proceedings of Workshop on Human-Data Interaction through Design (CHI'21)..

Nash, C., Briggs, J., Sellers, L., Carey, D., 2021. 'Where is the Human in HDI?', Proceedings of Workshop onHuman-Data Interaction through Design (CHI' 21).

Nash, C., Briggs, J., 2020. 'All Innovation Is Social', IASDR 2019, Manchester School of Art.

Collard, H., Briggs, J., 2020. 'Creative Toolkits for TIPS', European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2020, Guildford, United Kingdom, 14/9/2020 - 18/9/2020, in Computer Security: ESORICS 2020 International Workshops, DETIPS, DeSECSys, MPS, and SPOSE, Guildford, UK, September 17-18, 2020, Revised Selected Papers, pp. 39-55.

Yang, Y., Collomosse, J., Manohar, A.K., Briggs, J., Steane, J., 2019. 'TAPESTRY: visualizing interwoven identities for trust provenance', 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec), Berlin, Germany, 22/10/2018 - 22/10/2018, in 2018 IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, VizSec 2018.

Elsden, C., Manohar, A., Briggs, J., Harding, M., Speed, C., Vines, J., 2018. 'Making sense of blockchain applications: a typology for HCI', 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 21/4/2018 - 26/4/2018, in CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 458-458.

Gatehouse, C., Wood, M., Briggs, J., Pickles, J., Lawson, S., 2018. 'Troubling vulnerability: designing with LGBT young people's ambivalence towards hate crime reporting', 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 21/4/2018 - 26/4/2018, in CHI '18: Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 109-109.

Johnson, I.G., McDonald, A., Briggs, J., Manuel, J., Salt, K., Flynn, E., Vines, J., 2017. 'Community conversational: supporting and capturing deliberative talk in local consultation processes', CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado, USA, 6/5/2017 - 11/5/2017, in CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2320-2333.

Light, A., Briggs, J., 2017. 'Crowdfunding platforms and the design of paying publics', CHI '17: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Denver, Colorado, USA, 6/5/2017 - 11/5/2017, in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 797-809.

Clarke, R., Briggs, J., Light, A., Wright, P., 2016. 'Situated encounters with socially engaged art in community-based design', DIS '16: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2016, Brisbane, Australia, 4/6/2016 - 8/6/2016, in DIS '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, pp. 521-532.

Qaed, F., Briggs, J., Cockton, G., 2016. 'Social media resources for participative design research', PDC '16: The 14th Participatory Design Conference, Aarhus, Denmark, 15/8/2016 - 19/8/2016, in PDC '16: Proceedings of the 14th Participatory Design Conference: Short Papers, Interactive Exhibitions, Workshops, 2, pp. 49-52.

Clarke, R.E., Briggs, J., Heitlinger, S., Light, A., Crivellaro, C., 2014. 'Socially engaged arts practice in HCI', CHI '14: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 26/4/2014 - 1/5/2014, in CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 69-72.

Briggs, J., Blythe, M., 2013. 'Apps for art's sake: resistance and innovation', MobileHCI '13: 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Munich, Germany, 27/8/2013 - 30/8/2013, in MobileHCI '13: Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services, pp. 45-54.

Hook, J., Briggs, J., Blythe, M., Walsh, N., Olivier, P., 2013. 'Repentir: digital exploration beneath the surface of an oil painting', CHI '13: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France, 27/4/2013 - 2/5/2013, in CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2947-2950.

Blythe, M., Briggs, J., Hook, J., Wright, P., Olivier, P., 2013. 'Unlimited editions: three approaches to the dissemination and display of digital art', CHI '13: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France, 27/4/2013 - 2/5/2013, in CHI '13: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 139-148.

Kwon, H., Briggs, J., Freeth, B., Ladha, K., Thomas, J., Blythe, M., Olivier, P., 2013. 'Wet Pixels: from digital to analogue originals', CHI '13: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Paris, France, 27/4/2013 - 2/5/2013, in CHI EA '13: CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 583-588.

Blythe, M., Briggs, J., Olivier, P., Hook, J., 2012. 'Digital originals: reproduction as a space for design', NordiCHI '12: Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Copenhagen, Denmark, 14/10/2012 - 17/10/2012, in NordiCHI '12: Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design, pp. 1-10.