Dr Bettina Nissen, Lecturer/Programme Director - Design Informatics MA
Dr Bettina Nissen is a Lecturer in Interaction Design and researcher in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. With a background in product and interaction design, digital fabrication and data physicalisation, her practice-based research focuses on engaging audiences with complex technological concepts and data through tangible means and makings. Bettina completed her AHRC-funded PhD in Human Computer Interaction at Newcastle University in 2018 and has recently worked on a series of RCUK-funded research projects spanning topics of trust and consent in pervasive environments (part of EPSRC-funded PACTMAN) and the future of value(s) (part of ESRC-funded collaboration After Money with the Royal Bank of Scotland and New Economics Foundation). Bettina is currently working with the People’s Bank of Govanhill and artist Ailie Rutherford in Glasgow to explore feminist economic perspectives of cryptocurrencies through craft and knitting.
Research Interests:
- Research through Design
- Designing with Data
- Data Engagement
- Data Physicalisation
- Digital Fabrication
Research Profile:
Bettina’s research profile can be found on Edinburgh Research Explorer
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PACTMAN
Understanding how to manage issues of trust, privacy and consent in future pervasive environments
Crypto-Knitting
Crypto-Knitting is a new collaboration between artist Ailie Rutherford and researcher Bettina Nissen exploring the potential of digital currencies in feminist economies
After Money
If you change the representation of value, does it change the values that you can represent?
DCODE
DCODE is a EU-Funded network of seven world-class higher education design institutions and stakeholders from industry, government, and civil society, to explore new ways of designing with data and autonomous systems
Citizens Data Agency
A year-long design research project exploring people’s data advice needs both today and in the future, with the aim of understanding how to better enhance privacy and security for people using digital technologies.
REPHRAIN
REPHRAIN will develop a wide range of tools to keep people safe and informed online. These include automated tools to flag online harms in social media and a map to identify and avoid different threat such as fraud or disinformation. Researchers at the National Research Centre on Privacy, Harm Reduction and Adversarial Influence online (REPHRAIN), will also develop new methods to protect against micro-targeting, a tactic used to gather data about individuals, and a Data Advice Bureau to help citizens navigate online spaces safely.
VisHub
The VisHub is an interdisciplinary research lab and hub for teaching, collaboration, and outreach around data visualization hosted by the Institute for Design Informatics and the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.
Visual+Interactive Data
Visual+Interactive Data is a research group that investigates data visualizations and intreractive means to make data more immediate, tangible, and understandable across a variety of media such as paper, screen, and immersive.
Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab
The Regulation and Design (RAD) Lab explores how to create better human-technology interactions by building an interdisciplinary research agenda at the interface of technology, design, and regulation.
Exploring Artificial Intelligence in the Street: Working with Leith Walk
This project is motivated by the question “What does Artificial Intelligence mean for the person on the street?”