Chris Speed

Chris SpeedChris Speed is Chair of Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh where he collaborates with a wide variety of partners to explore how design provides methods to adapt, and create products and services for the networked society. He is especially favours trangressive design interventions including cups that only hold coffee when you talk to someone else in the queue, an application for sham marriages using the blockchain, and an SMS platform for shoplifting. Chris co-directs the Design Informatics Research Centre that is home to a combination of researchers working across the fields of interaction design, temporal design, human geography, software engineering and digital architecture

Publications

Exploring “Hacking,” Digital Public Art, and Implication for Contemporary Governance
Exploring “Hacking,” Digital Public Art, and Implication for Contemporary Governance
Amadu Wurie Khan, Chris Speed. © 2019. 16 pages.
This chapter considers the hypothesis that the online (internet) “hacking” concept has applications for community life and processes of sharing memories and identity, and...
Exploring “Hacking,” Digital Public Art, and Implication for Contemporary Governance
Exploring “Hacking,” Digital Public Art, and Implication for Contemporary Governance
Amadu Wurie Khan, Chris Speed. © 2018. 15 pages.
Knowledge Recovery: Applications of Technology and Memory
Knowledge Recovery: Applications of Technology and Memory
Maria E. Burke, Chris Speed. © 2014. 10 pages.
The ability to “write” data to the Internet via tags and barcodes offers a context in which objects will increasingly become a natural extension of the Web, and as ready as the...