Scholar
Shaun Macdonald
Google Scholar ID: CHMZEFAAAAAJ
University of Glasgow
Citations & Impact
Citations
169
H-index
7
i10-index
7
Publications
20
Co-authors
29
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Full paper 'Dancing with Data: Privacy Compromises of Egyptian Women Reconciling Westernized Social Media Sharing with Local Cultural Values' won the INTERACT 2025 Interaction Design for International Development Award.
- - Published 'Beyond Mute and Block: Adoption and Effectiveness of Safety Tools in Social VR, from Ubiquitous Harassment to Social Sculpting' in IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
- - Published 'Use of Online Resources by UK Undergraduate Students for Mental Health Questions' in International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction.
- - Published 'Prototyping and Evaluation of Emotionally Resonant Vibrotactile Comfort Objects as a Calming Social Anxiety Intervention' in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction.
Research Experience
- - Currently a Co-I on the AZRAM project, which aims to augment zoomorphic robots with affective interaction using mixed reality.
Education
- - 2018 - 2023: PhD in Human Computer Interaction, supervised by Professor Stephen Brewster and Professor Frank Pollick, investigating emotionally resonant vibrotactile comfort objects as a calming intervention for social anxiety, University of Glasgow.
- - 2014 - 2018: BSci in Computing Science, University of Glasgow.
Background
- HCI Researcher working in the Glasgow Interactive Systems Section at the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science. Current research interests include interactive and immersive prototyping, evocative affective haptics, and emotional encounters with social zoomorphic robots.
Miscellany
- Feel free to reach out via shaun.macdonald.research@gmail.com or LinkedIn and BlueSky.
