Dr. Nadia Pantidi (BA, MEng, PhD) is a Senior Lecturer in Interaction Design at the School of Design Innovation, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests are in the areas of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design and User Experience (UX), with a focus on understanding, evaluating and designing for people’s real world experiences with using technologies.

Her research leverages participatory and experience-centered design approaches aimed at enhancing community resilience and engagement. In this context, she conducts research in areas such as mental health and wellbeing, civic engagement, food and community resilience with a view to how local communities, vulnerable populations can be supported by the design of digital/non-digital technologies and services.

Before joining VUW, she was a Lecturer in Human Computer Interaction at University College Cork, Ireland; a co-Investigator with the H2020 project Grassroots Wavelengths (https://grassrootsradio.eu/) and a country representative for the COST Action From Sharing to Caring (http://sharingandcaring.eu/). Her work is regularly published in high impact international conferences and journals in the field of HCI, such as the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conferences on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Communities and Technologies (C&T), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). For a full list of publications, see: https://researchgonewild.wordpress.com/ or Google Scholar Profile