Andrew Denham

Practice-based PhD research studies at i-DAT: PhD title: Mapping the aestheticisation of digital reading practices My research interests lie within the below field/s: [1] Design thinking: an ontology in digital / web aesthetics [paradigm, form, function] [2] Pedagogic research: an epistemology of digital reading practices

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Kyra Boyle

Kyra is a researcher at i-DAT and an Associate Lecturer with the Digital Media Design programme at the University of Plymouth. Kyra also works with the NHS Torbay as a Digital Futures Healthcare Fellow, where she makes VR projects within Unity, looking at the histories

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Dr Lauren Hayhurst

Dr Lauren Hayhurst is a Lecturer in Games Design at i-DAT and Head of Narrative Design at Hi9, Natural Language AI Agency. After achieving a PhD in Creative Writing in 2017, for which she explored the ethical implications of fiction writing, she lectured at Exeter,

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Femke Snelting

Femke Snelting develops projects at the intersection of design, feminisms, and free software in various constellations. With Seda Guerses, Miriyam Aouragh, and Helen Pritchard, she runs the Institute for Technology in the Public Interest. Together they create spaces for articulating what computational technologies in the

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Rafael Arrivabene

Dr Rafael Arrivabene is the Program Leader for the MA Game Design and Lecturer in Games and Experience Design at i-DAT. He has been professionally involved in the games industry since 2010. Working as Creative Manager at MStech, he has conducted the production of award-winning

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Lynne Wang

Donglin Wang (Lynne) is a PhD researcher in i-DAT on the CODEX International Postgraduate Research Network. Her research focuses on Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) through a systematic and in-depth investigation of the current situation regarding the issues surrounding the information asymmetry among specialists, caregivers and parents,

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Grace Qi

Shuo Qi (Grace) is a PhD researcher in i-DAT on the CODEX International Postgraduate Research Network. Her research focuses on the protection and reconstruction of urban historic districts from an architectural and sociological perspective. The significance of historical districts should not to be overlooked, as

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Francie Yan

Yan Feng (Francie) is a PhD researcher with i-DAT at the University of Plymouth. Her research aims to explore a comparative history of dyeing processes across the UK and China, paying particular attention to the social, cultural, mythological, and practical design application of dyeing techniques.

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André Sier

André Sier works artistically with code and electronic means, interactive, digital and conventional, where he combines videogames, installations, painting, sculpture, music, mathematics and computation into objects and experiences of imaginary arts, where he merges mythology, interfaces, generative interactive space-time continuums, arts & sciences artifacts, human

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Yasmine Boudiaf

  Yasmine is a creative technologist and an artistic researcher. For years she has developed technological interventions that challenge social perceptions and foster new relationships between humans and technology. Her projects involve rigorous research and manifest across different mediums, including VR, robotics, performance, code and

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