Current Activities

Industrial Design PhD

I am in the final year of my PhD, looking at augmenting everyday objects to help neurodivergent people at work.

Design Intern

I am working with Dr. Marta Cecchinato to analyse and co-design an app for ADHD adults.

Tyneside Irish Dance

I run weekly and monthly adult Irish Dance classes in Newcastle, Gateshead, and Durham for both beginners and experienced dancers who would like a more casual environment to practice in.

Publications

D. Thomas and L. E. Holmquist, "Is Functionality All That Matters? Examining Everyday User Opinions of Augmented Reality Devices," 2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), 2021, pp. 232-237, doi:10.1109/VRW52623.2021.00050

Derianna Thomas and Lars Erik Holmquist. 2020. WristAR: A Wrist-Mounted Augmented Reality Interface. 19th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 312–314. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3428361.3432077

Other Conference Acceptances

Derianna Thomas. 2023. Neurodivergent technologies need to be accepted by neurotypicals. Designing Technology for Neurodivergent Self-Determination: Challenges and Opportunities Workshop. INTERACT 2023

Derianna Thomas and Lars Erik Holmquist. 2021. Towards a Generalised Architecture for Multisensory Augmented Reality. Workshop on Multisensory Augmented Reality 2021, INTERACT 2021

Derianna Thomas. Everyday AR: Designing Wearable and Interactive AR Devices to Assist Users when Interacting with the Virtual and Physical Worlds. Augmented Humans Doctoral Colloquium 2021.