I'm an Assistant Professor in Ethical Design of AI, Director of Education at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Director of the Ethical Design Lab, all at the University of Cambridge. LCFI is part of the University's Institute for Technology and Humanity. I'm also a Senior Research Associate of the Intellectual Forum at Jesus College Cambridge. My current projects include the Digital Wellbeing Observatory, participatory digital health and raising the profile of ethics at the interface.
I've written two books: Positive Computing - Technology for wellbeing and human potential with Rafael Calvo (MIT Press) which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and Interface Design for Learning - Design Strategies for Learning Experiences (Pearson). I am also a founding editorial board member of the journal, AI & Ethics.
Research areas
HCI, HCAI; digital health; digital mental health; digital wellbeing; UI/UX; ethical design; conversational AI;
Design for: wellbeing, human autonomy and learning
I've written two books: Positive Computing - Technology for wellbeing and human potential with Rafael Calvo (MIT Press) which has been translated into Chinese, Japanese and Korean, and Interface Design for Learning - Design Strategies for Learning Experiences (Pearson). I am also a founding editorial board member of the journal, AI & Ethics.
Research areas
HCI, HCAI; digital health; digital mental health; digital wellbeing; UI/UX; ethical design; conversational AI;
Design for: wellbeing, human autonomy and learning
Experience
I specialise in design for health and wellbeing, human autonomy, and learning; design ethics (specifically front-end ethics); and translation of research to practice. I have worked in participatory digital health and mental health across age groups with communities in the UK, Australia and South America. My current work focuses on 1) Digital wellbeing in the age of AI, 2) the need for a multidimensional digital health that addresses psychosocial and cultural needs as well as physical dimensions of health and 3) the role of front-end design in AI ethics.
I teach, publish articles, run workshops, give talks, and collaborate with technologists, social scientists and stakeholders to co-create human-centred, context-sensitive and research-driven technologies in ways that respect psychological needs.
From 2019-2025 I was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London in the Dyson School of Design Engineering. Before that, I was Creative Leader at the Wellbeing Technology Lab at the University of Sydney and an Educational Multimedia Designer at the Centre for Computer Supported Learning and Cognition also at Sydney. I've carried out design, research, and training for a range of business and non-profit organisations including Movember Foundation, ReachOut, Ieso Digital Health, Phillips, Sony, Google and Honda.
I teach, publish articles, run workshops, give talks, and collaborate with technologists, social scientists and stakeholders to co-create human-centred, context-sensitive and research-driven technologies in ways that respect psychological needs.
From 2019-2025 I was a Research Fellow at Imperial College London in the Dyson School of Design Engineering. Before that, I was Creative Leader at the Wellbeing Technology Lab at the University of Sydney and an Educational Multimedia Designer at the Centre for Computer Supported Learning and Cognition also at Sydney. I've carried out design, research, and training for a range of business and non-profit organisations including Movember Foundation, ReachOut, Ieso Digital Health, Phillips, Sony, Google and Honda.
Sitting squarely at the intersection of technology and the arts/humanities, I often fulfil the the role of cross-disciplinary translator, helping my colleagues in disparate fields (engineers, doctors, philosophers) to understand each other and work together more seamlessly through facilitation, shared language and tools. I also enjoy translating academic discoveries into actionable knowledge for professionals and the general public.
EDUCATION
I hold a PhD in Design and Master of Multimedia Design from The University of Sydney and a Bachelors in Writing and Directing from Carnegie Mellon.
