Dr Cara Wilson is a Lecturer in Children and Technology at the University of Edinburgh, and a member of the Children and Technology Group at the Institute for Education, Community and Society. With a background in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design, she explores how to better support inclusion and diversity in the development of technologies which pervade people’s lives, for example, working with neurodiverse children in primary school contexts. Through creative, explorative and participatory design methods, her research endeavours to support the strengths, voice and agency of individuals who are often overlooked in the process of design. Cara is a founding member of the Children, Interaction and Design group at the University of Edinburgh, and an affiliate of the Institute for Design Informatics and the Edinburgh Futures Institute. Her research interests include; Participatory Design, Co-Design, Design Futuring, Speculative Methods, Accessibility and Inclusion, Neurodiversity, Autism, designing for older adulthood and childhood, Intergenerational Design, Design for Health and Wellbeing, Embodied Interaction Design, Tangible Technologies, Multimodal Technologies, and Artificial Intelligence (particularly GenAI and Human- and Child-Centred AI).
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