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Dr Min Zhang

Profile summary

  • Research Staff
  • Post Doctoral Research Associate, Public Trust in Foren
  • Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
  • School of Psychology & Counselling
  • Psychology
  • min.zhang

Professional biography

I am an HCI researcher at the Open University. I am passionate about exploring how digital technology could facilitate individuals and society to flourish. My cross-disciplinary collaboration experience enhances my teamwork skills with people from different backgrounds and professionals such as psychology, policing, education, computing, management, and social workers. My expertise includes designing and running user studies using qualitative and quantitative methods to understand the problem space and user requirements and feed these to the design, development, and evaluation of responsible technology. 

Current research projects

1) Trust in forensic science evidence in the criminal justice system: The experience of marginalised groups

My roles involve exploring the indicators of trust in Forensic Science by using both qualitative and quantitative methods, and how to use participatory design methods to better design the tools (e.g., digital, policy, practice) to mitigate the distrust and foster healthy trust among the public, especially marginalised groups.    

2) Supporting Diverse New Motherhoods for Work Inclusion 

With my passion for empowering women from minority ethnic groups, I am also working part-time on this Open Socital Challenge project to explore how mothers of preschool children from minority groups could be supported in the workplace. This project was initiated by Open University Business School.   

3) Gratitude Tree

Initiated during the COVID-19 lockdown, this project aims to promote people's mental well-being and resilience with social gratitude intervention. Based on the psychological theories, we design and build the website called Gratitude Tree and it has grown rapidly since its launch in Dec 2020.    

4) Safe walking

  

Past projects

Citizen Forensics project at the Open University.

Digital Thread project

Before I joined the OU, I worked on the Digital Threads project funded by AHRC in the School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University. 

Qualifications

PhD, MEng, BA, Dipol. Psychology

I got my PhD in Computer Science at the University of Nottingham, MEng in Software Engineering, and BSc in Computer Science. On my study journey towards a BSc in Psychology and MBA. 

Professional Affiliations

Research interests

  • Social computing
  • Socio-technical infrastructure
  • Human Computer Interaction
  • Positive technology
  • Socio-technical systems

 

Teaching interests

I was involved in teaching the module TM356 Interaction Design and User Experience at the Open University. 

Master of digital health 

Impact and engagement

I am one of 10 speakers for the Soapbox Science MK and I will be very delighted to share the Gratitude Tree project on 6th July 2024 and encourage more public engagement with our social gratitude initiative. 

Publications

Digital detectives: websleuthing reduces eyewitness identification accuracy in police lineups (2021-04)
Elphick, Camilla; Philpot, Richard; Zhang, Min; Stuart, Avelie; Pike, Graham; Strathie, Ailsa; Havard, Catriona; Walkington, Zoe; Frumkin, Lara; Levine, Mark; Price, Blaine; Bandara, Arosha and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 640513

Building trust in digital policing: a scoping review of community policing apps (2021)
Elphick, Camilla; Philpot, Richard; Zhang, Min; Stuart, Avelie; Walkington, Zoe; Frumkin, Lara; Pike, Graham; Gardner, Kelly; Lacey, Mark; Levine, Mark; Price, Blaine; Bandara, Arosha and Nuseibeh, Bashar
Police Practice and Research, 22(5) (1469 -1491)

Altruism and anxiety: Engagement with online community support initiatives (OCSIs) during Covid-19 lockdown in the UK and Ireland (2020-12-06)
Elphick, Camilla; Stuart, Avelie; Philpot, Richard; Walkington, Zoe; Frumkin, Lara; Zhang, Min; Levine, Mark; Price, Blaine; Pike, Graham; Nuseibeh, Bashar and Bandara, Arosha
Arxiv

Understanding Pedestrians’ Perception of Safety and Safe Mobility Practices (2024)
Zhang, Min and Bandara, Arosha
In : CHI 2024: The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (11-16 May 2024, Hawaii, USA)

How Do People Use a Public Gratitude Platform in the Wild? (2024)
Zhang, Min; Arce-Plata, Carlos; Price, Blaine; Pike, Graham; Walkington, Zoe; Elphick, Camilla; Frumkin, Lara; Philpot, Richard; Keil, Tina; Levine, Mark; Stuart, Avelie; Nuseibeh, Bashar and Bandara, Arosha
In : Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '24) (11-16 May 2024, Honolulu, Hawaii)

Towards a Socio-Technical Understanding of Police-Citizen Interactions (2023-08-25)
Zhang, Min; Bandara, Arosha K.; Philpot, Richard; Stuart, Avelie; Walkington, Zoe; Elphick, Camilla; Frumkin, Lara; Pike, Graham; Price, Blaine; Levine, Mark and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 19th IFIP TC13 International Conference INTERACT 2023 (28 Aug - 1 Sep 2023, York, UK) (pp. 324-345)

Attitudes towards Online Community Support Initiatives during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey in the UK (2022-05-10)
Zhang, Min; Elphick, Camilla; Philpot, Richard; Walkington, Zoe; Frumkin, Lara; Price, Blaine; Pike, Graham; Levine, Mark; Nuseibeh, Bashar and Bandara, Arosha
In : CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (1-7 May 2022)

Finding & Reviewing Community Policing Apps in Asia (2020-04)
Zhang, Min; Bandara, Arosha; Price, Blaine and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures (25-30 Apr 2020) (pp. 45-48)

Towards Citizen Forensics: Improving Citizen-Police Collaboration (2020)
Bandara, Arosha; Zhang, Min; Price, Blaine; Pike, Graham; Elphick, Camilla; Walkington, Zoe; Frumkin, Lara; Philpot, Richard; Levine, Mark; Stuart, Avelie and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Workshop on Crime and/or Punishment: Joining the Dots between Crime, Legality and HCI, Extended Abstracts of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (25-30 Apr 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA)

Designing Technologies for Community Policing (2020)
Zhang, Min; Bandara, Arosha; Price, Blaine; Pike, Graham; Walkington, Zoe; Elphick, Camilla; Frumkin, Lara; Philpot, Richard; Levine, Mark; Stuart, Avelie and Nuseibeh, Bashar
In : Extended Abstracts of ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Late Breaking Work) (25-30 Apr 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA) (pp. 1-9)