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Staff profile / Wendy Keay-Bright

Reader in Inclusive Design
Senior Lecturer, Graphic Communication
Tel: 02920 416609/6633
Email: wkbright@uwic.ac.uk

I am currently Reader in Inclusive Design at Cardiff School of Art and Design. My most recent research activities have been in the area of Participatory Design and Interactive Technologies. My interest is in the impact of PD on the development of technologies that are designed to be playful rather than purely functional. In my work I demonstrate how the involvement of end users can reveal exciting and interesting ways for people to interact with each other and their environment. Through this process I aim to use Information Communication Technologies (ICT) to play a creative and critical role in both design research and education in order to provoke discussion and ideas rather being used as an intervention tool or to seek a solution to a problem.

My background in Graphic Communication and Animation remains a powerful influence, and the possibilities for personal and expressive forms of communication that are revealed through movement are a strong motivational aspect that underpin both my research and consultancy work.

My practice-led research has involved designing with small groups of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders, teaching staff and experts from a number of disciplines. Physical outcomes of this research include the reactivecolours website ReacTickles Creativity Box, and ReacTickles Global. These projects all had valuable input from other, like minded individuals, made possible through significant funding and sponsorship from NESTA, the National Film Board of Canada, Apple Computers and Smart Technologies. I am a partner in the ESRC Technology Enhanced Learning ECHOES project: Improving Children’s Social Interaction through Exploratory Learning in a Multimodal Environment.

Wendy Keay-Bright is a member of the Sensory Design research group [http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/sensory-design/], part of the Design Enhanced Human Futures within WIRAD.
Research Awards
2008: TLRP/ESRC funding for ECHOES II. Co-investigators: Judith Good (Sussex University) Karen Guldberg (Birmingham University) Helen Pain, Tim Smith (Edinburgh University) Thusha Rajendran (Strathclyde University) Annalu Waller(Dundee University) Oliver Lemon (Edinburgh University) Kaska Porayska-Pomsta (IOE, LKL)
2006: National Film Board of Canada for ReacTickles Global. Co-investigator: Will Pearson
2006: ESRC/TLRP funding for EchoeS. Co-investigators: Edinburgh, Sussex and Dundee Universities
2006: NESTA funding for ReacTickles Creativity Box. Co-investigators: University of Birmingham 2005 NESTA Learning Programme Award for Reactive Colours
2007 & 2006: Design Wales Showcase: ReacTickles™ Creativity Box & Reactive Colours
2007: Winner of the Innovative New Forms of Socially Responsive Media category in the MIPDOC Content 360 competition at MipTV, Milia, Cannes, France
2007: Finalist Wales Leadership Awards Leadership in the Public Sector.
2006: Finalist-Welsh Woman of the Year Awards: Woman in Science and Technology.
2006: BECTA ICT Excellence Award Short listed
2006: Tech Museum Awards: Short listed for a Tech Museum Award in the US
2006: S4C National Charity Awards: Winner Autism Cymru Wales Autism Award

Editorship of Journals
Associate Editor for International Journal of Design Principles and Practices
Editorial Board member for The Journal of Assistive Technologies
Digital Arts and Culture International Journal of Design Principles and Practices (reviewer)
International Journal of Technology Knowledge and Society (reviewer)
Interacting with Computers (reviewer)
ArtAbilitation (reviewer)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility - CPSR (reviewer)

Journal Articles
2010: ECHOES II: the creation of a technology enhanced learning environment for typically developing children and children on the autism spectrum Journal of Assistive Technologies
2009: ReacTickles: Playful interaction with Information Communication Technologies,The International Journal of Art & Technology
2008: ReacTickles Global: Can mobile technologies encourage playful social interaction?, Journal of Assistive Technologies
2008: Future of Creative Technologies: The Reactive Colours Project: Taking an Embodied Approach to Information Communication Technologies, Creativity and Special Education
2008: CPSR - Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility: ReacTickles Global: A Non-Textual Mobile & Networked Play Space
2008: Technology, Knowledge and Society: Tangible Technologies as Interactive Play Spaces for Children with Learning Difficulties
2007: April: Dancing with Disorder: Design, Discourse and Disaster: 7th European Academy of Design Conference: Published proceedings
2007: Design Principles and Practices - An International Journal: The Reactive Colours Project: Demonstrating Participatory and Collaborative Design Methods for the Creation of Software for Autistic Children.
2007: CoDesign, Taylor and Francis vol3, (2) Can Computers Create Relaxation? Designing ReacTickles™ Software With Children On The Autistic Spectrum.
2006: Digital Creativity: Taylor and Francis vol 17: Autism And Play
2004: Futureground, Monash University, volume 1 ISBN 0975 6060, Conference Contributions
2008: 2nd International Conference on Design Principles and Practices (Award winner and Panel chair)

Conference Papers / Presentations [inc. keynote speakers]
2010: Designing for Children Conference Bombay, India
2010: ECHOES: Improving Children? Social Interaction through Exploratory Learning in a Multimodal Environment. The Education Show, NEC, Birmingham & BETT2010, Londn Olympia
2009: Autism Today: Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
2009: Inclusion & Personalised Learning with Interactive Whiteboard Technology, BETT2009
2009: ‘By Us, For Us, About Us’ Children and Young People’s Festival of Participation of Research, Cardiff
2009 3rd International Conference on Design Principles and Practices: Berlin, Germany
2009: NASEN, Understanding and Supporting the Child on the Autistic Spectrum, Devon, UK
2008: 10th Computers for Social Responsibility Participatory Design Conference, Indiana, USA
2008: Sparkle and Shine, Sharing Excellence in Multi Sensory Practice, London UK
2008: 4th International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society, Boston, Mass, USA (presenter)
2008: Third International Autism Conference, Cardiff (workshop leader)
2008: Buckinghamshire SEN Conference, England, UK (workshop leader)

Supervision [areas / titles of current supervision]
Participatory and Collaborative Design
Design for Disability
Interaction with Technology
Moving Image Design
Expressive Communication

Enterprise / Consultancy
Autism Cymru (Trustee & Board Member)

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.