Judith Gregory | Assistant Professor
Judith Gregory is responsible for the ‘Understanding Users’ core area and is Co-coordinator of the Doctor of Philosophy in Design program. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of California at San Diego. Dr. Gregory is a specialist in user-centered design research and qualitative research methodologies. She is a Co-Principal Investigator in ‘Rethinking Health,’ ID’s healthcare initiative that brings together systems analysis, human-centered design research, and design planning, towards the challenges of ‘how to fix the US healthcare system.’ She is a Co-PI in the Design for the Base of the Pyramid research area. Dr. Gregory has contributed to a wide range of multi-disciplinary projects in design of health information systems and technology design, including acting as Co-PI in the Electronic Health Record iterative prototyping project of Kaiser Permanente (1993-98). Before joining the ID faculty in 2005, Dr. Gregory was Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway and Professor II in the Oslo School of Architecture & Design (2001-05). During that time, she was also a core faculty in the dual International MSc-Informatics and Master in Public Health programs that are ongoing capacity-building collaborations between the medical and computer science faculties of the University of Oslo and universities and Ministries of Health in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia and India in relation to the open source Health Information Systems Project in developing countries. Dr. Gregory has more than twenty-five years experience in a variety of research settings and networks. She is active in international design research, participatory design, health informatics, science & technology studies and activity theory conferences.
Research Interests
Social theory approaches in design
- Understanding socio-cultural practices as the basis for understanding experience
- Negotiation of disparate logics in design
- Reciprocal understanding across contexts
Design practice
- Understanding how design practices and processes are changing
- Transdisciplinarity and open collaboration
- Designing for many ‘universes of one’ and for emotions and motivations in design
- Design for translational science—getting new scientific knowledge into people’s lives
Design-oriented methods development
- Generating design knowledge through participatory design and co-design
- Research strategies to take up potentials of digital interactive media
- Tools to be shared amongst design researchers, practitioners and technology developers
