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John McCarthy is Professor of Applied Psychology at University College Cork. He teaches in Human Computer Interaction and Qualitative Research Methods. His research is concerned with understanding the influence of emerging social, personal, and work technologies on people’s lived experience, and using that understanding to inform design of usable and enriching technologies. His particular foci for the last few years have been on experience-centred design of technologies and services for and with people with dementia and their carers, technology to support participation in community activity and in digital civics, and responsible software design and engineering.

Publications

2024

McCarthy, J, Murray, M, Pantidi, N, Slingerland, G. 2024. Socially Engaged Art Approaches to CSCW with Young People in Rurban Communities. Computer Supported Cooperative Work. doi: 10.1007/s10606-024-09494-x.
McCarthy, John, Murray, Maria, Pantidi, Nadia. 2024. Designing for Dissensus: Socially Engaged Art to access experience and support participation. In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery. doi: 10.1145/3643834.3661516.

2023

McCarthy, John, Wright, Peter. 2023. The Value of Experience-Centered Design to Responsible Software Design and Engineering. Design Issues, 39, 61-76. doi: 10.1162/desi_a_00737.
McCarthy, J, Murray, M, Pantidi, N. 2023. Agency, Power and Confrontation: the Role for Socially Engaged Art in CSCW with Rurban Communities in Support of Inclusion. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). doi: 10.1007/s10606-023-09482-7.

2022

Brazier, Frances, Lukosch, Stephan, McCarthy, John, Murray, Maria, Slingerland, Geertje. 2022. Participatory design going digital: Challenges and opportunities for distributed place-making. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 31, 669{textendash}700.