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Dr Anna Mieczakowski

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Anna Mieczakowski
BT Research Fellow

  • Ph.D. in Engineering Design (University of Cambridge, 2011)
  • MSc Information Technology & Management (Keele University, 2005)
  • BA (Hons) Media and Cultural Studies & Information Technology (Worcester University, 2004)

Anna Mieczakowski is a research associate in the Inclusive Design Group at the Engineering Design Centre. Her PhD in Engineering Design focused on helping designers to design products and services that align with users' understanding in order to make them more accessible and usable. Anna has over 6 years of experience working in industry on a number of software-based products for the NHS and a variety of large and small organisations from the UK. More recently, Anna has been leading a number of collaborative knowledge transfer projects between the Engineering Design Centre and BT. One such project investigated, through multidisciplinary research, the true nature of ICT-mediated communications and their effects, risks and benefits. The results of this work can be accessed here.

Anna's research interests are in the general area of engineering design, particularly the development of design methodologies and tools in inclusive design and healthcare design to evaluate designs against the needs and capabilities of the target user groups in order to achieve successful, accessible, usable, safe and sustainable products and services.

Research Interests:

  • User Interface (UI) Design
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
  • Interaction Modelling
  • Psychology and Cognitive Science
  • Healthcare Design
  • E-Healthcare
  • Industry / Academic ICT Research

Selected Publications

  • GOLDHABER, T., MIECZAKOWSKI, A., WOLLNER, P., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2012) 'Evaluation of setup procedures on mobile devices based on users’ prior experience' in NordDesign 2012, Aalborg, Denmark (accepted).
  • MEDEIROS, A.C.B, MIECZAKOWSKI, A. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2012) 'Designing for the ageing experience: Framework of infleunces on adoption and use of technology products by users in different life stages' in the 12th International Design Conference (DESIGN 2012), Dubrovnik-Cavtat, Croatia (accepted).
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A. (2011) 'Modelling interaction between product features and human capabilities', PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge Engineering Department.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2011) 'Investigating designers and users’ cognitive representations of products to assist inclusive interaction design' in International Journal of Universal Access in the Information Society (accepted).
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P., PATMORE, J. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2011) 'Understandable by design: How can products be designed to align with user experience?', 6th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT 2012), accepted.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., GOLDHABER, T. and CLARKSON, J. (2011) 'Culture, communication and change: Report on an investigation of the use and impact of modern media and technology in our lives', Public Report (Long), ISBN 978-0-9545243-7-1.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., GOLDHABER, T. and CLARKSON, J. (2011) 'Culture, communication and change: Summary of an investigation of the use and impact of modern media and technology in our lives', Public Report (Short), ISBN 978-0-9545243-6-4.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., GOLDHABER, T. and CLARKSON, J. [Editors] (2011) 'Culture, communication and change: Reflections on the use and impact of modern media and technology in our lives', ISBN 978-0-9545243-5-7.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2011) 'An approach towards considering users' understanding in product design' in Stephanidis, C. [Editor] Universal Access in HCI, Part I, HCII 2011, LNCS 6765, Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 90–99.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2010) 'Toward a model of product-user interaction: A new data modelling approach for designers' in the 11th International Design Conference (DESIGN 2010), Dubrovnik-Cavtat, Croatia, pp. 875-884.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2010) 'Investigating designers' cognitive representations for inclusive interaction between products and users' in Clarkson, J., Langdon, P. and Robinson, P. [Editors] "Designing Inclusive Interactions". London: Springer-Verlag, pp. 133-144.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2010) 'Investigating how designers currently facilitate inclusive interaction in products' in the 5th Cambridge Workshop on Universal Access and Assistive Technology (CWUAAT 2010).
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2009) 'Designers, users and a shared understanding of the product: A case study with product designers' in European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2009), Helsinki, Finland, pp. 370-373.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2009) 'Modelling product-user interaction for inclusive design' in 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction (Part I), San Diego, California, USA, pp. 559-567.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2009) 'Inclusive interaction and its application in real design situations' in Is Prior Experience the Same as Intuition in the Context of Inclusive Design? Workshop of the 23rd British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Workshop and Conference (HCI 2009), Cambridge, UK.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., LANGDON, P. and CLARKSON, P.J. (2009) 'Specifying an inclusive model of product-user interaction' in 17th International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED'09), Stanford, California, USA, 4, pp. 143-154.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A.K. (2008) 'Design of Inclusive Products: Modelling Interaction Between Product Features and Human Capabilities', University of Cambridge Engineering Department, First Year Report.
  • MIECZAKOWSKI, A., HOLDRIDGE, K. and RUGG, G. (2007) 'Putting PCT websites at the heart of healthcare services', The British Journal of Healthcare Computing & Information Management. 24(1), pp. 19-21.

Full Publications List

Contact Information

The University of Cambridge,
Department of Engineering,
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Cambridge,
CB2 1PZ
UNITED KINGDOM

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