Category Archives: Research

New book on design for health

Posted on May 22, 2017 by Alison Black

Congratulations to the editors of the newly published book Design for Health, Emmanuel Tsekleves and Rachel Cooper of Lancaster University’s design-led research centre ImaginationLancaster. The book forms part of Routledge’s series Design for Social Responsibility (edited by Rachel Cooper). It … Continue reading →

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Communicating soil moisture forecasts in Ghana

Posted on April 24, 2017 by Alison Black

Our first set of materials, communicating climate and soil moisture forecasts, is ready for field testing in Northern Ghana. This is a first design outcome of one of our collaborative projects with meteorologists, funded by NERC, who are drawing together … Continue reading →

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Dementia Guide goes national

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Alison Black

Today the Dementia Guide for Carers and Care Providers, the product of a collaboration with Health Education England Thames Valley, goes national at the Dementia 2020 conference, Royal Society of Medicine, London. The guide can be downloaded from Amazon for … Continue reading →

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New book . . .

Posted on January 9, 2017 by suewalker

CIDR is delighted to announce the publication of Information design research and practice, a Gower book published by Routledge. The editors, Alison Black, Paul Luna, Ole Lund and Sue Walker have had the pleasure of working with leading academics and … Continue reading →

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Join us at Design Research Society conference 2016

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Alison Black

Alison Black and Sue Walker are chairing a session on Effective information design at the Design Research Society’s 50th anniversary conference in Brighton. The session, on Thursday 30 June,  includes papers on topics ranging from data visualisation to the design … Continue reading →

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Visualising uncertainty, MA ID workshop

Posted on May 12, 2016 by cidrra

Last Friday CIDR ran a workshop with the MA Information Design course, investigating the visualisation of natural hazard and meteorological uncertainty information. A fictional design scenario was used for the day, along with a series of mocked-up forecast documents, representing … Continue reading →

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Uncertainty and visualization in volcanic ash forecasting

Posted on March 8, 2016 by cidrra

Alison Black and Matthew Lickiss accompanied colleagues Kelsey Mulder, Andrew Charlton-Perez and Rachel McCloy, from the University of Reading’s Meteorology and Psychology Departments to a workshop on Volcanic Ash Forecasting at the Royal Academy of Engineering. This was part of CIDR’s collaboration on … Continue reading →

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Reading to do: 18th–20th century with Professor Michael Twyman

Posted on February 25, 2016 by cidrra

Following the video posted last week, we have now uploaded a recording from another session of the Reading to do workshop hosted by CIDR in October 2015 (more information here). As part of the workshop, Professor Michael Twyman led a session showing the historical … Continue reading →

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Reading to do: everyday experiences

Posted on February 17, 2016 by Alison Black

In October last year CIDR hosted an EU funded workshop, Reading to do. As an introduction to the workshop, each participant brought along examples of printed and electronic documents they had used recently in order to carry out a task … Continue reading →

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The secret life of wayfinding

Posted on January 13, 2016 by Alison Black

Andrew Barker will be talking tomorrow at the Sign Design Society. Andrew, who is a book and information designer, is in the final stages of his postgraduate research in the Department of Typography at Reading. His research examines the different … Continue reading →

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