Professor Pam Briggs, Dean
Pam Briggs is Dean of the School of Life Sciences, offering leadership across teaching, research and consultancy activities in a large school (c3000 students) covering chemical, biological, biomedical, forensic, food, sport and psychological sciences. She also holds a Chair in Applied Psychology, delivering innovative research and consultancy in computer-mediated communication and seeking answers to three main questions: What makes us trust an electronic message? Why and when do we feel secure in disclosing sensitive information about ourselves? What types of privacy do we seek to protect?
In the last five years, Pam has published over forty articles on human perceptions of trust, privacy and security in computer-mediated communication and has recently developed, with colleagues, an innovative model of health advice-seeking online (ESRC funded). She has given a number of invited addresses on online trust and e-health, including presentations to the pharmaceutical industry’s marketing and e-marketing summits in 2008, an invited address on e-health to the World Health Summit 2009, the opening address at the Second International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (Canada) and the keynote to the 2010 IFIP Trust Management conference in Morioka, Japan. She has also been a member of ESRC’s fellowship and CASE studentship committees.
Pam's current research projects include: IMPRINTS (Identity Management – Public Responses to Identity Technologies and Services) funded by EPSRC under the Global Securities Programme; Freedom to Roam – a TSB funded project addressing the information needs and mobility of older adults and iPEX (Internet Patient Experience) – an NIHR project asking how and why people seek online patient experience for health decision-making and support. Pam has also proposed the biometric daemon: a new biometric system more suitable for identity management in older adults. She is currently developing this concept in conjunction with colleagues at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab.
Previous Research Bids (2002-2009) - Successful Projects
2009 NIHR Programme Grant (£2m) Patient Experience Online. Northumbria grant approx £280K
2009 Technology Strategy Board/EPSRC Award of £285K ‘Ambient Assisted Living: Freedom to Roam’. Total project value: £2m
2008 Joint Council Award (New Dynamics of Ageing) of £192,833 “New metrics for exploring the relationship between mobility and successful ageing” (RES-352-25-0023) (1.1.2008 – 31.12.2009)
2007 Codeworks award of £13,000 to study assistive technologies for older adults
2005 NCR Financial Solutions Ltd. award of £45,000 to study security issues in ATM use
2005 Codeworks award of £14,500 to study barriers to technological engagement in older adults
2005 NCR Financial Solutions Ltd. award of £5,000 to study biometric systems for the older adults
2004 ESRC award of £102,000 “Privacy, Trust and Identity Permissions for Ambient Intelligence” (RES-341-25-0046) (1.11.2004 – 31.3.2006)
2003 ESRC award of £110,000 “Bodies Online – Information and Advice Seeking in the Health and Fitness Domain” (RES-341-25-0046) (1.4.2003 - 31
Selected Publications
Harris, P., Sillence, E. and Briggs, P. (in press). Perceived threat and corroboration: Key factors that improve a predictive model of trust in Internet-based health information and advice. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Lord, S., Chastin, S., McInnes, L, Little, L, Briggs, P. & Rochester. L (2011). Exploring patterns of daily physical and sedentary behaviour in community dwelling older adults. Age and Ageing, 0, 1-6.
Kim, D., Dunphy, P., Briggs, P. Hook, J., Nicholson, John, Nicholson, James, Olivier, Patrick (2010). Multi-touch authentication on tabletops. CHI 2010: Proceedings of the 28th International conference on human factors in computing systems. ACM Press.
Thomas, L., Little, L and Briggs, P. (2010). Case Study: The Impact of Using Location-Based Services with a Behaviour-Disordered Child. Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (NordiCHI), Reykjavik, Iceland, October 16-20. ACM Press
Briggs, P. & Little, L. (2009). Pervasive Computing and Disability: designing for independence? Second International Conference on Pervasive Technologies in Relation to Assisted Living (PETRA). Corfu, Greece
Harris P.R., Sillence, E., Briggs, P. (2009). The Effect of Credibility-Related Design Cues on Responses to a Web-Based Message About the Breast Cancer Risks From Alcohol: Randomized Controlled Trial. J Med Internet Res: 11(3):e37
Little, L., & Briggs, P. (2009). Privacy factors for successful ubiquitous computing. International Journal of E-Business Research, 5 (2), 1-20.
Briggs, P. and Olivier, P. (2008). Biometric Daemons: Authentication via Electronic Pets. Proceedings of CHI 2008, Florence Italy, April 5-10. ACM Press.
For a full list of publications, please click here.
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