Professor Bill Gaver

Professor

School: Design Arts and Creative Industries

Bill Gaver is Professor of Design and co-leader of the Interaction Research Studio at the University of Northumbria, London. With the Studio, he has developed novel approaches for pursuing design as research over the course of numerous practice-based projects, many of which have been published and exhibited internationally. He came to Design as a lapsed psychologist and cognitive scientist with a background in HCI and Politics and long-standing engagements with Sociology and STS. This has allowed him to make distinctive contributions to a portfolio of work that includes research products, methodologies and conceptual insights for and about practice-based design research, with an emphasis on ambiguity, ludic design, and emergence.

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AI and the Self: Exploring Identity, Agency, and Relational Personhood, McCerery, A., Wallace, J., Gaver, W., Montague, K., Odom, W., Barnett, S., Toombs, A., Thieme, A., Craig, C., Guerreiro, T. 13 Apr 2026, CHI 2026 - Extended Abtracts of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, NY, United States, ACM
Research Products and Time: When, For How Long, And Then What?, Berger, A., Hildebrandt, S., Kurze, A., Odom, W., Jenkins, T., Pierce, J., Chatting, D., Oogjes, D., Nabil, S., Boucher, A., Gaver, W. 25 Apr 2025, CHI EA '25: Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, United States, ACM
A Converted Flat in 2049: The Room of the Future, Boucher, A., Gaver, W., Brown, D., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Matsuda, N., Vanis, M. 18 Jul 2024
Designing with Data: An Annotated Portfolio, Gaver, W., Boucher, A. 16 Dec 2024, In: ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Exploring More-than-Human Smart Cities: The Emergent Logic of a Design Workbook, Gaver, W., Boucher, A., Brown, D., Matsuda, N., Ovalle, L., Sheen, A., Vanis, M. 3 May 2024, Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities, Oxford, Oxford University Press
More Samples of One: Weaving First-Person Perspectives into Mainstream HCI Research, Gamboa, M., Núñez-Pacheco, C., Homewood, S., Lucero, A., Beuthel, J., Desjardins, A., Helms, K., Gaver, W., Höök, K., Forlano, L. 1 Jul 2024, DIS '24 Companion, New York, United States, ACM
Datacatcher, Boucher, A., Gaver, B., Ovalle , L., Jarvis, N., Cameron, D., Hauenstein, M., Pennington, S. 23 Sep 2023
Living with Light Touch: An Autoethnography of a Simple Communication Device in Long-Term Use, Gaver, W., Gaver, F. 19 Apr 2023, CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, New York, US, ACM
Auditory Interfaces, Serafin, S., Buxton, B., Gaver, W., Bly, S. 3 Aug 2022