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  • Dr. Céline Mougenot

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    Dr. Céline Mougenot Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Collaborative Design at the Dyson School of Design Engineering.

    Director of the Collective Innovation Lab

    Focusing on developing methodologies and tools that can support the collective production of human-centered solutions to complex challenges by diverse groups of stakeholders. The vision of the group is that research in collaborative ideation and design methods stands as a cornerstone for building a future where innovation is accessible, fair, and truly beneficial to all.

  • Malak Sadek

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    Malak Sadek PhD Candidate at the Collective Innovation Lab. AI Design Researcher at The Alan Turing Institute and at AI x Design.

    Aligning Conversational AI and Human Values.

    Malak's work revolves around facilitating alignment between conversational artificial intelligence and human values through collaborative design practices. She is a fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and the Centre for Human-Inspired Artificial Intelligence at Cambridge University. Malak also sits on the review boards for the AI & Ethics Journal and the International Journal of Design Creativity & Innovation. She has earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering with a minor in Digital Media from the American University in Cairo, Egypt; and a Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction from the University of St Andrews, Scotland.

  • Echo Wan

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    Echo Wan PhD Candidate at the Collective Innovation Lab.

    Interdisciplinary Collaboration x Problem Framing

    Conducting studies to understand the team dynamics and design process in interdisciplinary healthcare design teams. Knowledge boundaries act as key factors in collaborations with people from various disciplines, as they can shape one's understanding of the problem during the design process of a project. Especially in healthcare where the knowledge gaps are more pronounced among experts from medical, engineering, design, and business backgrounds. Additionally, more regulations and environmental restrictions also make healthcare design team work challenging to navigate. Echo's research addresses these challenges and aims to build a framework to create shared understandings and objectives for more effective collaboration, particularly in the problem framing phase of design process.

Former Group Members

Former Students

  • Freya Smith

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    Freya Smith MEng Design Engineering - Human-centred Design of AI. Co-Founder at CLIP Energy.

    AI Co-Design with Practitioners and End-Users

    Facilitating AI co-design between AI practitioners and non-technical audiences through a card-based toolkit. The card-based AI literacy toolkit to encourage multidisciplinary collaboration between AI practitioners and non-technical audiences.

  • Sander Välk

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    Sander Välk Design and innovation specialist with background in leading interdisciplinary collaborative product development.

    Design x Science Toolkit

    Developed an innovative toolkit for Design x Science collaborations. The toolkit supports early stage idea generation at the fuzzy front end of product innovation processes in the bio-economy.