Workshop Presenter
Dorian is Assistant Professor in Ethical Design at The University of Cambridge Institute for Technology and Humanity. She is also a Visiting Researcher at the Dyson School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London and a Senior Research Associate at the Intellectual Forum, Jesus College Cambridge.

She is a human-computer interaction researcher who specialises in digital health and on design for wellbeing, autonomy and learning. She has worked in participatory digital health and mental health across age groups with communities in the UK, Australia and Latin America. Her current interests are on ethical front-end design and design for ‘whole-person digital health’ that takes into account the psychological dimensions of physical illness.

Her books include: Positive Computing: Technology for Wellbeing and Human Potential (MIT Press), and Interface Design for Learning (Pearson). She is also on the editorial board of the Springer Nature journal, AI & Ethics.

Previously she held the positions of Research Fellow at Imperial College London and until 2024, she was Associate Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge. Until 2019, she was Creative Leader of the Wellbeing Technologies Lab at the University of Sydney.

With over 20 years’ experience in technology design, she works together with communities, engineers, and social scientists to co-create human-centred, context-sensitive and research-driven technologies in ways that respect psychological needs. She has also done work for non-profit and corporate institutions including Movember Foundation, IESO Digital Health, Google, Atlassian, Honda, Sony and Phillips.

She received her PhD in Interaction Design from the University of Sydney and Bachelor’s from Carnegie Mellon. Her contributions in human-computer interaction include the “METUX model” for evaluating the wellbeing impact of technologies within six spheres of human experience and the 15 Wellbeing Supportive Design Heuristics.

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