Teresa Castle-Green

Research Fellow, School of Computer Science

Email: Teresa.Castle-Green@nottingham.ac.uk

Bio: Teresa is an interdisciplinary researcher focused on socio-technical challenges of key stakeholders within technology design, use, maintenance and repair settings. Teresa’s PhD in Human-Computer Interaction centred around working with industry practitioners to explore the complex design domain of Internet of things (IoT) technology. This included uncovering design challenges around working with multi-disciplinary teams, data reliability and planning for long-term maintenance and management. IoT technology has the potential to have both positive and negative impacts on the environment and related human behaviours. Teresa’s work explores the intersections between people, technology, business and climate change.

From an e-waste reduction perspective, Teresa has been working as part of the EPSRC-funded Fixing the Future project. Her work on this engages with industry and community groups to explore repairability challenges of IoT from both community repair and commercial viability perspectives. As part of this project, Teresa has also assisted in the creation and impact exploration of the sustainability focused board game ‘It’s All Connected’. The game provides visibility to players of the broader impact of smart products on the climate. It highlights the need for policy, green production, long-term maintenance and repair.

From the perspective of IoT supporting sustainable behaviours, Teresa co-led the SIF funded EV Micro-services for the future project. This project explored the use and management of a smart electric vehicle charging network, to uncover opportunities to increase uptake and decrease management overheads.