Nick Dulake

Nick Dulake MA BSc

Senior Industrial Designer


Summary

I am an industrial designer and applied academic with more than 25 years of experiences working across diverse market sectors, applying a user centred and co-design methodology approach to create innovative design solutions. Working in areas such as a e-health, digital heritage and wearable medical products, clients include: English Heritage, Kenwood, adidas, Trulife and Unilever.  These collaborations have produced over multiple patents and numerous products to market.

About

I am a Senior Research Fellow and Senior Industrial Designer at Design Futures. Design Futures is an industrial design consultancy that integrates creative and technical disciplines to produce highly innovative products and packaging solutions, enabling companies to invigorate their products and packaging, achieve competitive advantage in new or existing markets. As a senior member of the design team I lead, manage and participate in every part of the design and planning process.

Whilst at Design Futures I have led and participated in numerous projects, working in collaboration with and independently for Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SME’s) as well as national and international companies. My work is varied and has directly impacted on client’s success, for example in meeting R&D milestones, making technical recommendations, producing intellectual property and taking products to market.
I have experience of applying technical and creative design methods and developing interventions with a focus on digital tangible interactions. 
I am a Research Associate within the Lab4Living. Lab4Living has the objective of facilitating user driven innovation in health-care through co-creation. 

I am Co-founder of the Digital Materiality Lab (DML), at the DML explore the many ways in which the digital and the material worlds collide, fuse, converge or clash and how people perceive and interact with new hybrid materials that sense the environment, objects that display autonomous behaviours, and spaces that react to people.
I am responsibility for PhD supervision in areas such as co-design, tangible interaction, healthcare, robotic acceptance and heritage. I also act as a reviewer for several premier ACM conferences, including CHI, TEI.


Specialist areas of interest

Digital physical interfaces, industrial design, interaction design, heritage interaction, advanced manufacturing, HCI

Teaching

Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences

College of Social Sciences and Arts

Subject area - 
Art and Design

Courses - 
MA and BA Product design
MA Interaction design 
PhD Supervisor 

Research

  • Lab4Living , Art and Design Research Centre
  • Culture and Creativity Research Institute

Specialist areas of interest
Digital physical interfaces, tangible embodied interaction, industrial design, interaction design, heritage interaction, advanced manufacturing, 3D printing, HCI, creative use of technology

Adapting, repairing, and creating scientific equipment in Greenland using 3D printing
2024-2025
The Arctic Office NERC
Principle investigator 
The proposal aims to revolutionize scientific workflows in Greenland by integrating 3D printing and design. In this region, where ecological studies are vital yet challenged by equipment malfunctions due to harsh conditions and logistical complexities, 3D printing could offer a transformative solution if combined with context informed design and provides a game changing opportunity in exploiting the technology by shaping aesthetics, achieving functionality, optimising geometries and ensuring structural integrity of 3D printed objects. 

Future Home Air Quality  https://lab4living.org.uk/projects/future-home-air-quality/ 
2023 - 2025
Theme leader in E3
The Future Home Air Quality project explores the relationship between domestic activities/behaviours that affect our indoor air quality (IAQ), and how design can provide interventional systems to assist with improving our IAQ.

Virtual Reality Prosthetics 
Training System 
Co-investigator 
2017 – 2023 
A two and a half year (delayed due to covid) NHS I4I funded project to develop and build a VR 
system that improves the current state of NHS training for patients using a myo electric 
prosthetic arm. This project has created 2 international patent applications. 

meSch
Lead Industrial Designer  
2013 - 2018
meSch is a 4-year EU funded project with the goal of co-designing novel platforms for the creation of tangible exhibits at heritage sites: curators will be able to offer visitors new interactive experiences by means of material interaction with smart objects.

https://lab4living.org.uk/ 
https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/specialisms/culture-creativity-research-institute/what-we-do/projects/information-technology-and-interactions/mesch
https://www.shu.ac.uk/research/specialisms/culture-creativity-research-institute/what-we-do/projects/design/data-objects
https://www.shu.ac.uk/art-design-media-research-centre/knowledge-exchange/design-futures-product
https://www.shu.ac.uk/art-design-media-research-centre/groups/digital-materiality-lab

Publications

Journal articles

El Kamali, M., Angelini, L., Caon, M., Dulake, N., Chamberlain, P., Craig, C., ... Mugellini, E. (2023). Co-designing an Embodied e-Coach With Older Adults: The Tangible Coach Journey. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction. http://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2171332

Dulake, N., Petrelli, D., & Hornecker, E. (2019). A conversation around the design and experience of artifacts. Interactions, 26 (5), 52-57. http://doi.org/10.1145/3344941

van Dijk, D., Dulake, N., Petrelli, D., Marshall, M.T., Kockelkorn, H., Not, E., ... Venturini, A. (2019). Demo hour. Interactions, 26 (5), 8-11. http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/3360000/3351173/p8-petrelli.html?ip=143.52.110.171&id=3351173&acc=ACTIVE%20SERVICE&key=BF07A2EE685417C5.14F230B8D9330AE4.4D4702B0C3E38B35.4D4702B0C3E38B35&__acm__=1569345058_9322ef2ed7baf91db543d72adbbac093

Marshall, M., Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Not, E., Marchesoni, M., Trenti, E., & Pisetti, A. (2015). Audio-based narratives for the trenches of World War I : intertwining stories, places and interaction for an evocative experience. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 85, 27-39. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.08.001

Ciolfi, L., Petrelli, D., Goldberg, R., Dulake, N., Willox, M., Marshall, M., & Caparrelli, F. (2013). Exploring historical, social and natural heritage: challenges for tangible interaction design at Sheffied General Cemetery. Proceedings of NODEM 2013.

Conference papers

Claisse, C., Petrelli, D., Ciolfi, L., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., & Durrant, A. (2020). Crafting Critical Heritage Discourses into Interactive Exhibition Design. In 2020 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'20), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, 25 April 2020 - 30 April 2020. New York: ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376689

Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., Roberts, A., McIntosh, F., & Savage, J. (2019). Exploring the potential of the internet of things at a heritage site through co-design practice. In Proceedings of the 2018 3rd Digital Heritage International Congress. San Francisco: IEEE: http://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2018.8810061

Claisse, C., Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., & Ciolfi, L. (2019). Multisensory interactive storytelling to augment the visit of a historical house museum. In Proceedings of the 2018 Digital Heritage International Congress. IEEE: http://doi.org/10.1109/DigitalHeritage.2018.8810099

Claisse, C., Dulake, N., & Petrelli, D. (2019). Design synthesis: An act of Research through Design. In RTD 2019 CONFERENCE: DESIGN UNITED. Research Through Design

Chamberlain, P., Craig, C., & Dulake, N. (2019). 'Thinking through things' to support cooperative design in the development of technology to support health & wellbeing. Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, MCCSIS 2019 - Proceedings of the International Conferences on Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction 2019, Game and Entertainment Technologies 2019 and Computer Graphics, Visualization, Comp, 19-26. http://doi.org/10.33965/ihci2019_201906l003

Claisse, C., Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M.T., & Ciolfi, L. (2018). Multisensory Interactive Storytelling to Augment the Visit of a Historical House Museum. 2018 3RD DIGITAL HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS (DIGITALHERITAGE) HELD JOINTLY WITH 2018 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL SYSTEMS & MULTIMEDIA (VSMM 2018), 151-158.

Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M.T., Roberts, A., McIntosh, F., & Savage, J. (2018). Exploring the Potential of the Internet of Things at a Heritage Site through Co-Design Practice. 2018 3RD DIGITAL HERITAGE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS (DIGITALHERITAGE) HELD JOINTLY WITH 2018 24TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON VIRTUAL SYSTEMS & MULTIMEDIA (VSMM 2018), 120-127.

Angelini, L., Caon, M., Mugellini, E., Abou Khaled, O., Craig, C., & Chamberlain, P. (2018). The NESTORE Project: Co-Designing a Virtual Coach with Older Adults. In CHI 2018, Monteal, Canada, 21 April 2018 - 26 April 2018. https://nestore-coach.eu/publications

Dulake, N., & Gwilt, I. (2017). Flying with data: Openness, forms and understanding. The Design Journal, 20 (Sup 1), S3863-S3872. http://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352889

Gwilt, I., & Dulake, N. (2017). Understanding the needs and desiresof service users in the design andcreation of meaningful physical datarepresentations. Pedagogy & Physicalization: Designing Learning Activities around Physical Data Representations. http://dataphys.org/workshops/dis17/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2017/06/data_workshop_igwilt_AW.pdf

Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., Pisetti, A., & Not, E. (2016). Voices from the War: Design as a Means of Understanding the Experience of Visiting Heritage. Human Factors in Computing Systems - ACM CHI16, 1033-1044. http://doi.org/10.1145/2858036.2858287

Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., Kockelkorn, H., & Pisetti, A. (2016). Do it together : the effect of curators, designers, and technologists sharing the making of new interactive visitors’ experiences. In Museums and the Web 2016, Los Angeles, 6 April 2016 - 9 April 2016. http://mw2016.museumsandtheweb.com/paper/do-it-together-the-effect-of-curators-designers-and-technologists-sharing-the-making-of-new-interactive-visitors-experiences/

Ciolfi, L., Avram, G., Maye, L., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., van Dijk, D., & McDermott, F. (2016). Articulating co-design in museums: reflections on two participatory processes. In Gergle, D., Ringel Morris, M., Bjørn, P., & Konstan, J. (Eds.) CSCW '16 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, (pp. 13-25). New York: ACM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2818048.2819967

Marshall, M., Dulake, N., Ciolfi, L., Duranti, D., Kockelkorn, H., & Petrelli, D. (2016). Using tangible smart replicas as controls for an interactive museum exhibition. In Proceedings of the Tenth Anniversary Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 14-17 February 2016, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, (pp. 159-167). New York, NY, USA: ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2839462.2839493

Marshall, M.T., Dulake, N., Petrelli, D., & Kockelkorn, H. (2015). From the deposit to the exhibit floor: an exploration on giving museum objects personality and social life. In CHI EA '15. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (pp. 1917-1922). New York, NY, USA: ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2702613.2732872

Kubitza, T., Schmidt, A., Pohl, N., Petrelli, D., Dingler, T., & Dulake, N. (2014). Tools and methods for creating interactive artifacts. In Butz, A., Greenberg, S., Bakker, S., Loke, L., & De Luca, A. (Eds.) Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, LFE Medieninformatik Hardware Lab, Amalienstr. 17, 80333 Munich, Germany, (pp. 385-388). New York: ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2540930.2568483

Petrelli, D., Dulake, N., Marshall, M., Willox, M., Caparrelli, F., & Goldberg, R. (2014). Prototyping tangibles : exploring form and interaction. TEI - Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 41-48. http://doi.org/10.1145/2540930.2540966

Ciolfi, L., Petrelli, D., Goldberg, R., Dulake, N., Willox, M., Marshall, M., & Caparrelli, F. (2013). Exploring historical, social and natural heritage: challenges for tangible interaction design at Sheffield General Cemetery. In NODEM 2013 : Beyond control - the collaborative museum and its challenges, Stockholm, Sweden, 2013 - 2013. http://repo.nodem.org/?objectId=106

Petrelli, D., Bowen, S., Dulake, N., & Light, A. (2012). Digital Christmas : an exploration of festive technology. In DIS '12 : Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference, (pp. 348-357). New York, N.Y: ACM: http://doi.org/10.1145/2317956.2318009

Book chapters

Petrelli, D., & Dulake, N. (2022). Exploring digital-material hybridity in the post-digital museum. (pp. 107-124). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc: http://doi.org/10.5040/9781350133266.ch-007

Dulake, N., & Gwilt, I. (2022). Dataseeds. In Making with Data. (pp. 233-241). A K Peters/CRC Press: http://doi.org/10.1201/9781003264903-15

Petrelli, D., & Dulake, N. (2022). 7. Exploring Digital-material Hybridity in the Postdigital Museum, Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake (Sheffield Hallam University, UK). In Making Data Materializing Digital Information. Bloomsbury Publishing

Petrelli, D., & Dulake, N. (2022). 7. Exploring Digital-material Hybridity in the Postdigital Museum, Daniela Petrelli and Nick Dulake (Sheffield Hallam University, UK). In Making Data Materializing Digital Information. Bloomsbury Publishing

El Kamali, M., Angelini, L., Caon, M., Andreoni, G., Dulake, N., Chamberlain, P., ... Mugellini, E. (2021). Building Trust and Companionship in e-Coaching Through Embodiment. In Research for Development. (pp. 195-204). Springer International Publishing: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72663-8_12

Chamberlain, P., Craig, C., & Dulake, N. (2021). Found in translation: innovative methods of co-design in the development of digital systems for promoting healthy aging. In Andreoni, G., & Mambretti, C. (Eds.) Digital Health Technology for Better Aging. A Multidisciplinary Approach. (pp. 29-52). Cham, Switzerland: Springer: http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72663-8_3

Reports

Chamberlain, P., Craig, C., & Dulake, N. (2019). APPENDIX WP7.2 transferability of participants perspectives to technologists. NESTORE.

Chamberlain, P., Craig, C., & Dulake, N. (2018). Transferability of participants perspectives to technologists. NESTORE. https://zenodo.org/record/4554976#.Yqsyr3bMIuU

Chamberlain, P., Craig, C., & Dulake, N. (2018). D7.3 Report on End-User Improvements for prototypes. NESTORE.

Chamberlain, P., Craig, C., & Dulake, N. (2018). NESTORE D7.1 Needs, Values and Suggestions to Co-Design. NESTORE.

Patents

Dulake, N., & Phelan, I. (2023). PROSTHETIC TRAINING DEVICE. WO2023094836A1.

Dulake, N., & Phelan, I. (2023). PROSTHETIC TRAINING DEVICE. WO2023094836A1.

Dulake, N., & Phelan, I. (2023). PROSTHETIC TRAINING DEVICE. WO2023094836A1.

Jones, A., Dulake, N., & Bailey, S. (2022). A clasp. GB2561381A. https://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-find-publication-result?PatentNo=GB2561381&JournalNumber=0&EarliestYear=2007&EarliestWeek=1&LatestYear=2023&LatestWeek=53&DocTypes=A%2CA8%2CA9%2CB%2CB8%2CC%2CC2%2CC3&ResultsPerPage=50&Start=0&DateSearch=0

Jones, A., Dulake, N., & Bailey, S. (2018). A clasp. GB2561381 (A) ― 2018-10-17.

Dulake, N., Phillips, M., Willox, M., & Stanton, A. (2012). Method and device for extracting the contents of a sachet. WO2011EP72789 20111214.

Dulake, N., Phillips, M., Willox, M., & Stanton, A. (2012). Water conservation and user experience. WO2011EP72789 20111214, WO2011120860.

Dulake, N. (2012). Dispensing closure for mixing the contents of two vessels. GB20100011157 20100702.

Dulake, N., Evans, R., & Reed, H. (2011). Water soluble sheet dispenser. WO2011EP54472 20110323.

Dulake, N., Jones, A., & Phillips, M. (2010). Door or window security system for mounting at a door or window frame. WO2009GB51265 20090928.

Dulake, N., & Mills, R. (n.d.). Apparatus for providing a heating or cooling effect to a human or animal body part. GB2422109 (A) GB2422109 (B) EP1845914 (A1) EP1845914 (B1) AU2006205692 (A1) US2008188915 (A1) ZA200706509 (A) WO2006075134 (A1) AT442116 (T) CA2594720 (A1).

Artefacts

Dulake, N. (2017). My Roman Pantheon. Chesters Roman Fort and Museum - Hadrian's Wall.

Dulake, N., & Gwilt, I. (2015). Dataseeds - flying data. [artifact / product]. http://research.shu.ac.uk/design4health/conferences/gallery-d4h2015

Phillips, M., Dulake, N., Willox, M., Gwilt, I., Craig, C., & Auton, K. (2015). Home health monitoring – EyKos HealthHub (product design concept). [Object]. http://www.activ8rlives.com/

Dulake, N., Marshall, M., Petrelli, D., & KOCKELKORN, H.U.B. (2014). meSch cases.

Dulake, N. (2011). Lower limb orthoses. [Product].

Dulake, N. (2010). Wearable medical monitoring devices - MovinSense. [Product].

Dulake, N. (2009). Wearable medical monitoring devices - WalkinSense. [product].

Dulake, N. (2008). Help for broken bodies. [Products].

Dulake, N. (n.d.). Help for broken bodies. [Products].

Dulake, N. (n.d.). Museum tangibles with embedded technology.

Chamberlain, P., & Dulake, N. (n.d.). NESTORE tangible coach. [Mixed media _ electronics].

Exhibitions

Dulake, N., Marshall, M., Petrelli, D., KOCKELKORN, H., van Rijn, G.-.J., Mcentaggart, P., ... O'Brien, S. (2015). The Hague and the Atlantic Wall. Museon onderwijs. http://www.museon.nl/tentoonstellingen/atlantikwall

Dulake, N., Marshall, M., Petrelli, D., KOCKELKORN, H., van Rijn, G.-.J., McEntaggart, P., ... O'Brien, S. (2015). The Hague and the Atlantic Wall. Museon onderwijs. http://www.museon.nl/tentoonstellingen/atlantikwall

Dulake, N., Chamberlain, P., Soreny, C., & Vickers, E. (2023). Re-imagining the 100 year life. [Projection, film, photography]. Somerset House, London.

Dulake, N., Chamberlain, P., Soreny, C., & Vickers, E. (2023). Re-imagining the 100 year life. [Projection, film, photography]. Somerset House, London.

Dulake, N., Chamberlain, P., Soreny, C., & Vickers, E. (2023). Re-imagining the 100 year life. [Projection, film, photography]. Somerset House, London.

Dulake, N., Chamberlain, P., Soreny, C., & Vickers, E. (2023). Re-imagining the 100 year life. [Projection, film, photography]. Somerset House, London.

Presentations

Dulake, N., & Petrelli, D. (2016). Blending the tangible and digital to craft new co-designed interactions for museums. Presented at: MCN 2016 : The Human-Centered Museum, New Orleans, LA, 2016

Posters

Dulake, N., Petrelli, D., Stanley-Marbell, P., & Hewson, R. (2018). Continuous Analysis within 3D-Printed Structures Using In-Chamber Sensors. Presented at: Connected Everything Conference 2018, Newcastle University, 2018

Stanley-Marbell, P., Hewson, R., Petrelli, D., & Dulake, N. (2018). Continuous Analysis within 3D-Printed StructuresUsing In-Chamber Sensors. Presented at: Connected Everything Conference 2018, Newcastle University, 2018

Goodwin, V., Dulake, N., & Langley, J. (2017). Vertebral fragility fractures: co-designing solutions to promote independence and quality of life based on the needs of service users. Presented at: Fragility Fracture Network Conference, Malmo, Sweden, 2017

Other activities

Edinburgh Napier University, BDes (Hons) Design and Digital Arts

Postgraduate supervision

Current supervision 

Julia Keyte - Material Meaning: An investigation into how the meanings associated with home possessions are made, through design, and after design

AHRC collaborative PhD with English heritage - Hannah Taylor - The Once And Future Wall: Shaping Bespoke Visiting Experiences By 
Interpreting The Multiplicity Of Hadrian’s Wall 

PhD Scholarship Collaboration with Sheffield Children's Hospital - Ursula Ankeny - Co-designed technology: supporting the invisible aspects of paediatric long-term condition management

Previous supervision 

Design for Automated Futures: User Centred Exploration of Collaborative Robotics Acceptance 

The Printed Museum: 3D Printing's impact on the museum environment, practice and audience

Crafting tangible interaction to prompt visitors’ engagement in house museums

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