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Overview

Peter Wright is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily within Social Sciences and Medicine. Within these domains, Wright has contributed significantly to subfields such as Education, Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, Visual Arts and Performing Arts, and Human Factors and Ergonomics.

Themes in Wright's research include various main topics such as Child Development and Digital Technology, Creativity in Education and Neuroscience, Art Education and Development, Music Therapy and Health, Optical Imaging and Spectroscopy Techniques, Telemedicine and Telehealth Implementation, and Surgical Simulation and Training.

Wright's recent publications showcase a range of interdisciplinary work. Notable papers include:

  • Your Move: An Open Access Dataset of Over 1500 Board Gamer's Demographics, Preferences and Motivations (2023), published in Simulation & Gaming
  • Learning, making and flourishing in non-formal spaces: Participatory arts and social justice (2020), published in Education Citizenship and Social Justice
  • SenseMyStreet: Sensor Commissioning Toolkit for Communities (2022), published in Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • Disability Justice: The Challenges of Inclusion in Everyday Life (2025), published in International Journal of Disability Development and Education
  • "Are there Racists in Yugoslavia?" Debating Racism and Anti-blackness in Socialist Yugoslavia (2022), published in Slavic Review

Wright has collaborated frequently with several researchers. Their frequent coauthors include Sian Chapman, Carrie Ekins, Dean Owens, Barry Down, and Christina Davies, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Books form part of Wright's academic output, with a publication titled Youth Participatory Arts, Learning and Social Transformation: Engaging People, Place and Context With Big Hart released in 2021 under Murdoch University.

The venues Wright regularly publishes in reflect a diverse interest and engagement across interdisciplinary fields. Frequent venues include Open Journal of Pediatrics, Simulation & Gaming, Education Citizenship and Social Justice, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, and International Journal of Disability Development and Education.

Best Publications

  • Technology as Experience

    John McCarthy;Peter Wright

  • High Levels of Circulating Epinephrine Trigger Apical Cardiodepression in a β2-Adrenergic Receptor/Gi–Dependent Manner A New Model of Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy

    Helen Paur;Peter T. Wright;Markus B. Sikkel;Matthew H. Tranter

  • Funology: from usability to enjoyment

    Mark A. Blythe;Kees Overbeeke;Andrew F. Monk;Peter C. Wright

  • Communities of practice in the distributed international environment

    Paul Hildreth;Chris Kimble;Peter C. Wright

  • Empathy and experience in HCI

    Peter Wright;John McCarthy

  • An Age-Old Problem: Examining the Discourses of Ageing in HCI and Strategies for Future Research

    John Vines;Gary Pritchard;Peter Wright;Patrick Olivier

  • Configuring participation: on how we involve people in design

    John Vines;Rachel Clarke;Peter Wright;John McCarthy

  • An evaluation of earcons for use in auditory human-computer interfaces

    Stephen A. Brewster;Peter C. Wright;Alistair D. N. Edwards

  • Experience-Centered Design: Designers, Users, and Communities in Dialogue

    Peter Wright;John McCarthy

  • Aesthetics and experience-centered design

    Peter Wright;Jayne Wallace;John McCarthy

  • Analyzing human-computer interaction as distributed cognition: the resources model

    Peter C. Wright;Robert E. Fields;Michael D. Harrison

  • Making sense of experience

    Peter Wright;John McCarthy;Lisa Meekison

  • Live-streaming changes the (video) game

    Thomas Smith;Marianna Obrist;Peter Wright

  • Communities of practice: going virtual

    Chris Kimble;Paul Hildreth;Peter Wright

  • The experience of enchantment in human–computer interaction

    John McCarthy;Peter Wright;Jayne Wallace;Andy Dearden

  • Making design probes work

    Jayne Wallace;John McCarthy;Peter C. Wright;Patrick Olivier

  • A Detailed Investigation into the Effectiveness of Earcons

    Stephen A. Brewster;Peter C. Wright;Alistair D. N. Edwards

  • The prayer companion: openness and specificity, materiality and spirituality

    William Gaver;Mark Blythe;Andy Boucher;Nadine Jarvis

  • Experimentally Derived Guidelines for the Creation of Earcons

    Stephen A. Brewster;Peter C. Wright;Alistair D. N. Edwards

  • Anti-Solutionist Strategies: Seriously Silly Design Fiction

    Mark Blythe;Kristina Andersen;Rachel Clarke;Peter Wright

  • Pathophysiology of takotsubo syndrome: temporal phases of cardiovascular responses to extreme stress.

    Peter T. Wright;Matthew H. Tranter;Andrew C. Morley-Smith;Alexander R. Lyon

  • An Age-Old Problem

    John Vines;Gary Pritchard;Peter Wright;Patrick Olivier

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Olivier
Patrick Olivier Monash University
Mark Blythe
Mark Blythe Northumbria University
John Vines
John Vines Northumbria University
Andrew Monk
Andrew Monk University of York
John Bowers
John Bowers Newcastle University
David Kirk
David Kirk Newcastle University
Stephen Brewster
Stephen Brewster University of Glasgow
Ian Sinclair
Ian Sinclair University of Southampton
S.M. Spearing
S.M. Spearing University of Southampton
Ronald T. Brown
Ronald T. Brown University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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