@annarlcarter
✨ Research Fellow at Northumbria University, Newcastle working on the Re:Play Project exploring Playful Learning in HE. 💼 Working on HCI, Playfulness, Multisensory and Cultural Heritage 🐈⬛ Cat Lover 🌟Star Wars Enthusiast
🎮 Do you use playful learning in your HE teaching?
RE:PLAY is looking for case study participants — roleplay, gamification, simulations, etc, across any discipline.
For more details check out our website: research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/call-...
#PlayfulLearning #HigherEducation #REPLAYstudy
If you have a quick 10 minutes before the teaching haul starts we would really appreciate you using it to fill in our playful survey! 😀
When did technology last spark JOY for you? Not efficiency, delight?
Our new forum "Delightful Encounters" explores play as a radical design ethos.
Read & contribute:
doi.org/10.1145/3780...
#HCI #playfuldesign
@dalya.dev @laurenscottdev.bsky.social @pat-piedade.bsky.social
If you have a quick 10 minutes before the end of the year we would really appreciate you using it to fill in our playful survey! Wearing Christmassy attire and singing throughout is advised 😀🎄
Staff involved in teaching and learning: share your experience with #playfullearning!
Whether you use these methods, are curious about them, or sceptical – we want to hear from YOU.
Help shape the future of university #HigherEd teaching 👇
nupsych.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
#HCI #Design
@re--play.bsky.social Wrapped just dropped!
Final meeting of the year = full festive mode ✨
32 Fellows ✓
7 R's Framework ✓
6 universities ✓
Questionable knitwear ✓✓✓
Happy holidays from the team!
#PlayfulLearning #ChristmasJumperDay
research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/thats...
Ian Robson wearing what can only be described as a ridiculous painted cardboard tower on his head.
Proud to say that all the @re--play.bsky.social co-investigators dutily wore their hats to our monthly catch up. Caught up on all we are finding out, with our partners, students and Fellows about activity, perceptions, and experiments in playful learning in Higher Education. Playfully serious 😜
🎲 @re--play.bsky.social Winter 2025 Newsletter just dropped!
32 Fellows starting their redesign journey, the RE:PLAY Framework unveiled, and surveys rolling out nationwide.
It's all happening!
Check it out👇
research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla...
#PlayfulLearning #HigherEd #HCI
Right #highereducation colleagues and students! 🤩 If you are interested in #playfullearning come connect to RE:PLAY. It’s a wildly collaborative doing-and-learning #ESRC funded UK study on playful learning in HE. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/
@re--play.bsky.social
Excited to share: I've joining @nicwhitton.bsky.social and team as a Research Fellow on the RE:Play Project @re--play.bsky.social!
Really looking forward to exploring how creative research can challenge assumptions and open new spaces for connection.
Here's to the next playful experience. ✨
Delighted to welcome 32 RE:PLAY Fellows to the RE:PLAY project. research.northumbria.ac.uk/replay/repla... They will be working with our learning design fellows over the next year to redevelop their modules and evidence the impacts. Watch this space.
Excited to present our paper "Accidental Spreaders: How Different Roles Interact During Misinformation Discussions" at #ECSCW at @newcastleuni.bsky.social in July. Written with @docwarner.bsky.social, Lynne Coventry and @martacecchinato.bsky.social - read it here: dl.eusset.eu/items/9e3b2c...
Come find #karaokai at the demo space at #ecscw where you can sing any of the papers presented at this years conference. Was great to see @annarlcarter.bsky.social and @agbebakun.bsky.social singing to our accidental spreader #misinformation paper. #karaokescience
Join us at #DIS2025 in Madeira for a hands-on workshop reimagining peer support in academia!
Let’s co-create more caring, sustainable academic communities together.
More info & submissions 👉 beasev.github.io/DesigningFor...
@beatrizseveres.bsky.social
#PeerSupport #HCI #AcademicWellbeing
Today is my last day at Cardiff Met. I won't be idle; "Introduction to AI" is due out in June and other books in the way, but a change of pace and focus. To mark this and turning 65 I will run 65 miles in a week in July in aid of Cancer Research UK.
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🔈 Registrations are now open for the DCitizens Summer School 2025!
This event will include a 1-day Doctoral Consortium (14th July 2025) and a 4-day Summer School (15th-18th July 2025).
Summer School: dcitizens.eu/lisbon-docto...
DC: dcitizens.eu/lisbon-docto...
#HCI #DigitalCivics #summerschool
Ritika Gairola posing in front of her poster at CHI
@uxp2lab.bsky.social’s Ritika Gairola rocking her first #chi2025 poster on public policy and HCI! She attracted a crowd quickly and is rocking it 🎉. Read more here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
The Geordie crew & our honorary Geordies at #CHI2025!
Great talks, deep chats, joyful singing, catching up with old friends & making new ones.
@kylemontague.bsky.social
@pamogranite.bsky.social
@shaunlawson.bsky.social
@katherinej.bsky.social
@altoombs.bsky.social
@graydesign.bsky.social
Got an event that needs a sing-along? Let’s duet!
Here’s the paper: doi.org/10.1145/3706...
Karaokai won the Popular Vote Award at #CHI2025!
Big love to everyone who sang, asked, smiled & danced with us and our dino. You made it magic.
@dalya.dev @kylemontague.bsky.social @laurenscottdev.bsky.social @pat-piedade.bsky.social
#Karaokai #karaokescience #hci #northumbriauni
Thank you for the music 🎶 🎉 Couldn't be prouder of the brilliant team that brought this mad idea to life 🥳
Ana presenting the title slide of the presentation on a feminist care ethics toolkit and holding up an honorable mention award.
Slide with Joan Tronto’s face; she emailed Ana about this work recently!
Ana Henriques presenting our work on Feminist Care Ethics at #chi2025! Such cool work with a the outcome of a toolkit which we hope will be useful to relationally engage in complex research contexts. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Oh my goodness, so honoured!!
Thank you to everyone who sang, enjoyed and voted over the past week ❤️
Cant wait to sing with you all again soon 🎤
Congratulations to the team who made the KaraokAI interactivity exhibit for winning the popular vote!!! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @annarlcarter.bsky.social #chi2025 #interactivity
In case you need an excuse to sing at #CHI2025, come find our KaraokAI interactivity booth, where you'll meet the wonderful @annarlcarter.bsky.social and the rest of the brilliant team. Highly recommend both the singing and the company.
Austin’s Unofficial Rules for Not Dying (or Being Boring) at Conferences, particularly #chi2025
A short thread of practical survival tips for the conference grind:
Check out our paper here: doi.org/10.1145/3706...
And find todays songs at: Karaokai.tech
We demoed KaraokAI: turning papers into karaoke songs at @chi.acm.org today.
Over 100 people sang, danced and chatted with us! We’re so grateful for the energy you brought.
Excited to meet and sing with more of you over the next few days.
#KaraokAI #HCI #KaraokeScience #CHI2025
Thanks to The Royal Society, I’m at Indiana University Bloomington this week!
Excited to team up with @altoombs.bsky.social to explore how digital tech keeps communities connected in changing cities.
Let’s go! 🚀
#DigitalCivics #UrbanRegeneration #Indiana #HCI
Image of the author (Anna Carter) presenting a slide about individuals who have less access to public spaces, there is an animation on the screen talking about how this can effect users with mobility needs such as challenges in transport, uneven pathways and busy crowds
A picture of the author (Anna Carter) talking at a presentation event, she is asking users to think about there sensory experiences in public spaces such as smell, hearing and feeling
It was a pleasure to deliver a talk on equity, heritage, and multi-sensory technology in public spaces yesterday—and how we can do better to shift power dynamics back to the communities these spaces serve.
#Equity #Heritage #UrbanTech #PublicSpaces #CommunityLedDesign #NUIdeas #HCI