Reem Talhouk
Biography
Reem Talhouk is an Assistant Professor in Design and Global Development at Northumbria University, where she also co-leads the ‘Design Feminisims’ and ‘MARGINALITIES’ research groups.
Reem contributes to teaching in Interaction Design, Communication Design and Multi-Disciplinary Innovation. She has also delivered teaching on the DCitizens Summer School and the Participatory Design Summer School. She has contributed chapters to several educational handbooks, including the Handbook on Humanitarian Inequality and the Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design.
Reem has led research at the intersection of design, technologies, and global development. She has conducted research with refugees, activists and humanitarians, and focused on the interplay between sociotechnical systems, digital civics, ontological security and mechanisms of oppression and resistance.
Publications
2022
Revolting from Abroad: The Formation of a Lebanese Transnational Public Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 6, no. CSCW2, pp. 1–28, 2022.
Introduction to the Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022 Proceedings Article
In: ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. iv–vi, 2022.
2021
Artificially Intelligent Technology for the Margins: A Multidisciplinary Design Agenda Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–7, 2021.
Unaccompanied migrant youth and mental health technologies: A social-ecological approach to understanding and designing Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–19, 2021.
Middle Eastern reflections on forced migration, solidarity, and HCI research Journal Article
In: interactions, vol. 28, no. 2, pp. 48–51, 2021.
Migration and mobility in HCI: Rethinking boundaries, methods, and impact Proceedings Article
In: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–6, 2021.
Situating Service Design: Approaches to embedding Service Design in Voluntary Community Sector Organisations Proceedings Article
In: 14th International Conference of the European Academy of Design, Safe Harbours for Design Research, pp. 1–9, 10.5151/ead2021-146 2021.
2020
When the civic turn turns digital: Designing safe and secure refugee resettlement Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 1–14, 2020.
Developing an innovative Tool to Quantify Schoolchildren’s Exposure to Obesogenic Environments Journal Article
In: Current Developments in Nutrition, vol. 4, pp. nzaa056_025, 2020.
Integrating Health technologies in Health Services for Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: a Qualitative study Journal Article
In: Journal of Medical Internet Research, vol. 22, no. 7, 2020.