Publications

Peer reviewed Journal articles, Conference papers and Book Chapters

Sara Heitlinger, Ann Light, Yoko Akama, Kristina Lindström and Åsa Ståhl. (2024). More-Than-Human Participatory Design: Between Sustainability and Entanglement, chapter 4 in Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Participatory Design, Routledge

Ann Light, Lara Houston, and Ruth Catlow (2024). Intimate Translations: Transforming the Urban Imagination. In S. Heitlinger, M. Foth, & R. Clarke (Eds.), Designing More-than-Human Smart Cities: Beyond Sustainability, Towards Cohabitation. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Roel Roscam Abbing and Ann Light (2024) Make Friends Not Art: Mapping Law, Power and Participation in Designing an Online Platform during documenta fifteen. PDC’24.

Ann Light (2024) More-than-Human Participatory Approaches for Design: Method and Function in Making Relations. PDC’24

Ann Light, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Lara Houston, Andrea Botero (2024) Enacting Entanglement: CreaTures, Socio-Technical Collaboration and Designing a Transformative Ethos. ECSCW’24

Joost M. Vervoort, Tara Smeenk, Iryna Zamuruieva, Lis Reichelt, Mae van Veldhoven, Lucas Rutting, Ann Light, Lara Houston, Ruth Wolstenholme, Markéta Dolejšová, Anab Jain, Jon Ardern, Ruth Catlow, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Zeynep Falay, Jana Putrle-Srdić, Julia Lohmann, Carien Moossdorff, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Cristina Ampatzidou, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero, Kyle A. Thompson, Jonas Torrens, Richard Lane, Astrid Mangnus. 2024. 9 Dimensions For Evaluating How Art And Creative Practice Stimulate Societal Transformations. Ecology and Society, 29(1):29.

Ann Light (2023) In Dialogue with the More-than-Human?: Affective Prefiguration in Encountering Otherwise. interactions (JULY–AUGUST 2023), 78. DOI: 10.1145/3599956

Ann Light (2022) Chapter 1: Trust in Collaborative Economies and How to Study It: Relational Assets and the Making of More-than-Strangers, in n Travlou, P. and Ciolfi, L. (Eds), “Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies across Europe. Understanding Sharing and Caring”. London: Ubiquity Press.

Ida Larsen-Ledet, Ann Light, Airi Lampinen, Joanna Saad-Sulonen, Katie Berns, Negar Khojasteh and Chiara Rossitto, (Un) scaling computing, interactions (September – October 2022), 72

Liesbeth Huybrechts, Mela Zuljevic, Oswald Devisch, Virginia Tassinari, Anna Seravalli, Ann Light, Seppe De Blust, Antoniadis Panagiotis, Chiara Bassetti, Nicola Bidwell, Maurizio Teli, Cristiano Storni, Gabriela Avram, Mark Marshall, Filip Majetic, Joachim Declerck. (2022) Reworlding: Participatory Design Capabilities to Tackle Socio-Environmental Challenges, in Proc.PDC’22

Robert Soden, Laura Devendorf, Richmond Wong, Yoko Akama and Ann Light (2022), “Modes of Uncertainty in HCI”, Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp 132–247. DOI: 10.1561/1100000085.

Airi Lampinen, Ann Light, Chiara Rossitto, Anton Fedosov, Chiara Bassetti, Aniko Bernat, Penny Travlou and Gabriela Avram (2022) Processes of Proliferation: Impact Beyond Scaling in Sharing and Collaborative Economies, ACM GROUP’22, Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 6, GROUP, Article 41. https://doi.org/ 10.1145/3492860

Ann Light (2022). Ecologies of subversion: troubling interaction design for climate care. interactions 29, 1 (January – February 2022), 34–38. https://doi.org/10.1145/3501301

Hannah Korsmeyer, Ann Light and Lisa Grocott (2021) Understanding Feminist Anticipation through ‘Back-talk’: 3 Narratives of Willful, Deviant, and Care-full Co-Design Practices, Futures 135. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102874

Ann Light (2021) Collaborative speculation: Anticipation, inclusion and designing counterfactual futures for appropriation, Futures 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.futures.2021.102855

Kristina Lindström, Per-Anders Hillgren, Ann Light, Michael Strange and Li Jönsson. 2021. Collaboration: Collaborative future-making. in Routledge Handbook of Social Futures (eds Carlos López Galviz and Emily Spiers). Routledge ISBN 9781138340336

Chiara Rossitto, Airi Lampinen, Ann Light, Vera Diogo, Aniko Bernat and Penny Travlou (2021), Why Are We Still Using Facebook? The Platform Paradox in Collaborative Community Initiatives. In Maurizio Teli and Chiara Bassetti (eds) Becoming a Platform in Europe: On the Governance of the Collaborative Economy, Boston-Delft: now publishers, p90-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1561/9781680838411

Markéta Dolejšová, Cristina Ampatzidou, Lara Houston, Ann Light, Andrea Botero, Jaz Choi, Danielle Wilde, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis, Felipe Gonzales Gil, and Ruth Catlow. (2021). Designing for Transformative Futures: Creative Practice, Social Change and Climate Emergency. Creativity and Cognition. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 3, 1–9. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3450741.3465242

Ann Light. (2021). Not A Research Agenda For Smart Objects, In Marco C. Rozendaal, Betti Marenko and William Odom (eds), Designing Smart Objects In Everyday Life: Intelligences, Agencies, Ecologies, Bloomsbury Visual Arts, pp185–194

Jeffrey Bardzell, Shaowen Bardzell, and Ann Light. (2021) Wanting To Live Here: Design After Anthropocentric Functionalism. Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 293, 1–24. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3411764.3445167

Ioan Fazey, Niko Schäpke (+ 50 authors) …Ann Light… (2020) Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there, Energy Research & Social Science 70

Ann Light and Jo Briggs (2020) The Design of Paying Publics, (eds. Dan Marom, Oliver Gajda and Tim Wright) CrowdAsset: Crowdfunding for policy makers. World Scientific Publishing.

Ann Light (2020) Redesigning Design for Culture Change:
Theory in The Anthropocene, Digital Culture and Education, 12(2) https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf15af7a259990001706378/t/5f02e48181fcf002f4f0e64a/1594025092372/Light-merged.pdf

Per-Anders Hillgren, Ann Light & Michael Strange (2020) Future public policy and its knowledge base: shaping worldviews through counterfactual world-making, Policy Design and Practice.

Gabriela Avram, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Stefano De Paoli, Ann Light, Peter Lyle & Maurizio Teli (2019), Introduction to the Special Issue on Repositioning CoDesign in the age of platform capitalism: from sharing to caring, Co-Design, 185-191

Light, A. and Seravalli, A. (2019) The Breakdown of the Municipality as Caring Platform: Lessons for Co-Design and Co-Learning in the Age of Platform Capitalism, Co-Design, 192-211

Light, Ann and Miskelly, Clodagh. 2019. “Platforms, Scales and Networks: Meshing a Local Sustainable Sharing Economy”. JCSCW, Summer 2019

Ann Light (2019) Design and Social Innovation at the Margins: Finding and Making Cultures of Plurality, J. Design and Culture

Light, A. and Akama, Y. (2019) The Nature of ‘Obligation’ in Doing Design with Communities: Participation, Politics and Care (eds) Fisher, T. and Gamman, L. Tricky Design: ethics through things. London: Bloomsbury

Reitsma, L, Light A., Zaman, Tariq and Rogers, P. (2019) Facilitating Dialogical Spaces as a Foundation for Respectful Design in co-creative encounters with indigenous communities, European Academy of Design Conference 2019.

Light, A. (2019) The Détente Model of Managing Divergent Values in the Maker Sphere, book chapter in (eds) Jeremy Hunzinger and Andrew Schrock Making Our World: the Hacker and Maker Movements in Context, New York: Peter Lang

Light, A. (2018) Performing Interaction Design with Judith Butler, book chapter in (eds) Bardzell, J., Bardzell, S. and Blythe, M. Critical Theory and Interaction Design, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: 429-446

Ann Light (2018) Ideas of Autonomia: Buzzwords, Borderlands and Research through Design in special issue on Autonomía: Design strategies for enabling design process, SDRJ, Vol 11, No 2 147-153 Also: Light, Ann. (2018) Research Through Design and Uncertain Futures, Medium: https://medium.com/the-ascendency-of-process-over-outcome-considering/research-through-design-rtd-and-uncertain-futures-2f979d682ef5

Ann Light (2018) Writing PD: Accounting for Socially-Engaged Research. Proc. PDC’18

Yoko Akama and Ann Light (2018) Practices of Readiness: Punctuation, Poise and the Contingencies of Participatory Design, Proc. PDC’18

Yoko Akama, Elisenda Ardevol, Deborah Lanzeni, Ann Light, Katherine Moline, Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo (2018) Strategies for Disruption, in (eds Yoko Akama, Sarah Pink, Shanti Sumartojo) Uncertainty and Possibility: New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology, Bloomsbury,

Austin Toombs, Colin M. Gray, Guoyang Zhou and Ann Light (2018) Appropriated or Inauthentic Care in Gig-Economy Platforms: A Psycho-linguistic Analysis of Uber and Lyft. EA CHI’18.

Alicia Smedberg and Ann Light (2018) Autonomy and control in Orkney: An inquiry into the social benefits of community wind energy. in Sumpf, P. and Büscher, C. (eds.) SHAPE ENERGY Research Design Challenge: Control, change and capacity-building in energy systems. Cambridge: SHAPE ENERGY.

Ann Light (2018) The place in our hands: the grassroots making of cultural heritage, in Stuedahl, D. and Vestergaard, V. (eds.) 2018. Media innovations and design in cultural institutions, NORDICOM, Gothenborg

Vera Khovanskaya, Lynn Dombrowski, Ellie Harmon, Matthias Korn, Ann Light, Michael Stewart and Amy Voida (2018) Designing Against the Status Quo, Community + Culture Forum, interactions, March-April 2018,

Ann Light and Christina Welch (2018) The cultural and spiritual aspects of growing edible plants: testing for meaningfulness in Leeds, UK, in (eds) Joshua Zeunert and Tim Waterman, Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food, Routledge

Ann Light (2018) Introduction / Who are We to Make Change? In Taking Action in a Changing World  (Light, Ferrario, Frauenberger, Preece, Strohmeier) interactions January-February 2018, p34-45 (https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3169128)

Ann Light (2017) What are you Reading? Ann Light, interactions, July-August 2017, p14-15

Julian Brigstocke, Elona Hoover, Marie K. Harder, Paula Graham, Sofia De Sousa, Andy Dearden, Ann Light, Theodore Zamenopoulos, Katerina Alexiou, Gemma Burford, Justine Gaubert, Colin Foskett (2017) Implicit values: Uncounted legacies, In: FACER, Keri and PAHL, Kate, (eds.) Valuing interdisciplinary collaborative research: Beyond impact. Bristol, Policy Press, 65-83.

Light, A. and Boys, J.  (2017) Collaborating across Difference: Learning At/With/From The Edges Eds. Elizabeth DiSalvo, Jason Yip, Elizabeth Bonsignore, and Carl DiSalvo. Participatory Design for Learning. London: Routledge.

Light, A., Powell, A. and Shklovski, I. (2017) Design for Existential Crisis in the Anthropocene Age. C&T’17

Smith, A. and Light, A. (2017) Cultivating sustainable developments with makerspaces, Liinc em Revista, http://revista.ibict.br/liinc/article/view/3900

Light, A., Howland, K., Hamilton, T. and Harley, D. (2017) The Meaning of Place in Supporting Sociality, Proc. DIS’17

Akama, Y., Light, A. and Bowen, S. (2017) Mindfulness and Technology: Traces of A Middle Way, Proc. DIS’17

Light, A. and Briggs, J. (2017) Crowdfunding Platforms and the Design of Paying Publics, Proc. CHI’17

Light, A., Shklovski, I. and Powell, A. (2017) Design for Existential Crisis. Alt-chi 17

Clarke, R., Briggs, J. and Light, A. and Wright, P. (2016) Situated encounters with socially engaged art in community-based design. Proc. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’16).

Light, A., Pedell, S., Robertson, T., Waycott, J., Bell, J., Durick, J. and Leong, T. W. (2016) What’s special about aging. ACM interactions, 23 (2). pp. 66-69. ISSN 0004-5411

Light, A. (2015) Troubling Futures: can participatory design research provide a constitutive anthropology for the 21st century? Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal – IxD&A, N.26, 2015, pp. 81-94

Light, A., Brereton, M. and Roe, P. (2015) Some Notes on the Design of World Machines, OzCHI’15

Light, A. and Miskelly, C. (2015) Sharing Economy vs Sharing Cultures? Designing for social, economic and environmental good, IxD&A, 24, p49-62

Light, A., Leong, T. W. and Robertson, T. (2015) Ageing Well with CSCW, ECSCW’15

Vines, J., Clarke, R., Light, A. and Wright, P. (2015) The beginnings, middles and endings of participatory research in HCI: An introduction to the special issue on ‘perspectives on participation’ International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 74, 77-80

Williamson, J.R., Hansen, L.K., Jacucci, G., Light, A. and Reeves, S. (2014) Understanding performative interactions in public settings, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 18 (7), 1545-1549

Petrelli, D. and Light, A. (2014) Family Rituals and the Potential for Interaction Design: A Study of Christmas, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (ToCHI)

Light, A. and Petrelli, D. (2014) The Rhythm of Christmas: Temporality, ICT Use and Design for the Idiosyncrasies of a Major Festival, ACM OzCHI 2014

Light, A. (2014) The Allure of Provenance: Tracing Food through User-Generated Production Information, in (eds) Choi, J., Foth, M. and Hearn, G. Cook, Grow, Eat, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

Light, A. and Akama, Y. (2014) Structuring Future Social Relations: The Politics of Care in Participatory Practice, Proc. ACM PDC 2014, pp151-160

Dearden, A., Light A. (2014) Scaling Up Co-Design:  Research Projects as Design Things, Proc. ACM PDC 2014 (s)

Reitsma, E., Light, A. and Rogers, P. (2014) Empathic Negotiations through Material Culture: Co-Designing and Making Digital Exhibits, Digital Creativity

Light, A. (2014) Citizen Innovation: ActiveEnergy and the Quest for Sustainable Design, in (eds) Boler, M. and Ratto, M. DIY Citizenship: Critical Making and Social Media. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA p259-268

Light, A., Milligan, A., Bond, L., McIntosh, L. and Botten, C. (2013) High Tea at the Conviviality Café: Research Tool or Design Intervention?, 1st Research Through Design Conference, Newcastle, September 2013

McSeveny, K., Heller, B., Light, A. and Machaczek, K. (2013) “You could, couldn’t you?” A preliminary investigation of older people’s interaction with a bespoke virtual environment using a gesture interface, J. Gaming and Virtual Worlds, 5(3), p329-348

Light, A. and Coles-Kemp, L. (2013) Granddaughter Beware! An Intergenerational Case Study of Managing Trust Issues in the Use of Facebook, Proc. IEEE TRUST 2013

Hill, K.J., Light, A. and Dearden, A. (2013) Meanwhile use as performance – rehearsing and performing community in temporary spaces, Proc. PINC 2013

Light, A., Hansen, N.B., Halskov, K., Hill, K.J., Hackney, F. and Dalsgaard, P. (2013) Exploring the dynamics of ownership in community-oriented design projects, Proc. ACM C&T 2013, pp90-99.

Light, A. and Akama, Y. (2012) The Human Touch: participatory practice and the role of facilitation in designing with communities, in Proc. ACM PDC 2012.

Goraya H., Light A., Yates S.J. 2012. Contact Networks and the Digital Inclusion of Isolated Community Members?. in Digital Divide Yearbook 2011,. (eds.). Vartanova E and Smirnova O IAMCR: MediaMir.

Dray, S., Light, A., Dearden, A., Evers, V., Densmore, M., Ramachandran, D., Kam, M., Marsden, G., Sambasivan, N., Smyth, T., van Gruenen, D., and Winters, N.  (2012)  “Human Computer Interaction for Development:  Changing HCI to Change the World” book chapter in (ed) J. Jacko, The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, 3rd Edn (Human Factors and Ergonomics) CRC Press. 1369 – 1394

Petrelli, D., Bowen, S., Light, A. and Dulake, N. (2012) Digital Christmas: An Exploration of Festive Technology, Proc. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’12)

Akama, Y and Light, A. (2012) A Candor in Reporting: Designing Dexterously for Fire Preparedness, alt-chi, Proc. CHI 2012

Kleine, D., Light, A. and Montero, M. (2012): Signifiers of the life we value? – considering human development, technologies and Fair Trade from the perspective of the capabilities approach, Information Technology for Development, 18 (1), 42-60

Light, A., Egglestone, P., Wakeford, T. and Rogers, J. (2011) Participant-Making: bridging the gulf between community knowledge and academic research, J. Community Informatics, 2011, 7:3.

Light, A. (2011) Democratising Technology: Inspiring Transformation with Design, Performance and Props, Proc. CHI 2011, 2239-2242

Light, A., Wakeford, T., Egglestone, P. and Rogers, J. (2011) Research on an Equal Footing? A UK Collaborative Inquiry into Community and Academic Knowledge, Indigenous Knowledge Technology Conference 2011, Nov 2011.

Light, A (2011) Digital interdependence and how to design for it, interactions, 18 (2), March + April 2011, ACM, New York, NY, USA

Light, A (2011) HCI as heterodoxy: Technologies of identity and the queering of interaction with computers, Interacting with Computers, vol 23 (5), Sept 2011

Light, A. (2011) The Politics of Representing Cultures in Ubiquitous Media – challenging national cultural norms by studying a map with Indian and British users, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol 15 (6) August 2011, 585-596

Light, A (2011) The Power of Inference, the Ethics of Making and the Case for Digital Interdependence. Proc. Ethicomp 2011

Wakeman, I., Light, A., Robinson, J., Chalmers, D. and Basu, A. (2011) Deploying pervasive advertising in a farmers’ market, in (eds Jörg Müller, Florian Alt and Daniel Michelis) Pervasive Advertising, Springer, 247-267

DEARDEN, Andy, LIGHT, Ann, KANAGWA, Benjamin and RAI, Idris (2010). Getting from research to practice in M4D. In: SVENSSON, Jakob and WICANDER, Gudrun, (eds.) Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on M4D Mobile Communication Technology for Development : M4D 2010, 10-11 November 2010, Kampala, Uganda. Karlstadt University, 259-262.

DEARDEN, Andy, LIGHT, Ann, HEEKS, Richard, MARSDEN, Gary, WINTERS, Niall, TONGIA, Rahul, BEALE, Russell and KAM, Matthew (2010). Innovation everywhere : computing for 9 billion people. In: ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 : Grand Challenges in Computing Research, Edinburgh, 13-16 April 2010. (Unpublished)

Light, A. Wakeman, I., Robinson, J., Basu, A. and Chalmers, D. (2010) Chutney and Relish: Designing to Augment the Experience of Shopping at a Farmers’ Market, Proc. OzCHI’10, Brisbane, Nov 2010, 208-215, New York, NY: ACM

Wakeman, I., Light, A., Robinson, J., Basu, A. and Chalmers, D. (2010) Bringing the Virtual to the Farmers’ Market: Designing for Trust in Pervasive Computing Systems, Proc. Fourth IFIP Conference on Trust Management, Springer-Verlag.

Light, A. Ladeira, I, Roberson, J, Bidwell, N, Rangaswamy, N, Sambasivan, N and Gitau, S. (2010) Gender matters: Female perspectives in ICT4D research, ICTD 2010

Light, A. The Unit of Analysis in Understanding the Politics of Participatory Practice, PDC 2010

Light, A. (2010) The Panopticon reaches within:  how digital technology turns us inside out, Journal of Identity in the Information Society, 3:3, pp583-598

Light, A. (2010) Bridging Global Divides with Tracking and Tracing Technology. IEEE Pervasive 9 (2), 28-36

Simon Bowen & Ann Light, The Use of Mediating Artefacts in Design Research EASST Review Volume 29 (2010)

Light, A., Kleine, D and Vivent, M. (2010) “Performing Charlotte: a Tool to bridge Cultures in Participatory Design” Int. J. of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, 2(1), 36-58

Light, A. (2009) Democratising Technology: A Method, in (ed T. Inns) Designing for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings, Gower, Ashgate Publishing,

Light, A., Simpson, G. and Weaver, L., Healey, P.G. (2009) “Geezers, Turbines, Fantasy Personas: Making the Everyday into the Future” Proc. Creativity and Cognition 2009, Berkeley, Oct 2009 – award for best paper promoting social creativity

Light, A. and Anderson, T. (2009) “Research Project as Boundary Object: negotiating the conceptual design of a tool for International Development” Proc. ECSCW 2009: (eds Ina Wagner, Luigi Ciolfi, Hilda Tellioglu, Ellen Balka) Proceedings of the 11th European conference on computer-supported cooperative work, , 21-42. London: Springer.

Light, A. and Wright, P.C. (2009) “The Panopticon and the Performance Arena: HCI Reaches within” Proc. INTERACT 2009, Uppsala, Aug 2009

Light, A. (2009) ‘Negotiations in space: the impact of receiving phone calls on the move’, in (eds Ling, R. and Campbell, S.) The Reconstruction of Space and Time: Mobile Communication Practices, Transaction Publishers

THOMAS, John, DEARDEN, Andy, DRAY, Susan, LIGHT, Ann, BEST, Michael, ARKIN, Nuray, MAUNDER, Andrew, KAM, Matthew, CHETTY, Marshini, SAMBASIVAN, Nithya, BUCKHALTER, Celeste and KRISHNAN, Gaurishankar (2008). Hci for community and international development. In: CZERWINSKI, Mary and LUND, Arnie, (eds.) CHI EA ’08 : CHI ’08 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. New York, ACM, 3909-3912.

Light, A., Miskelly, C. and Thompson, S. (2008) ‘An Analysis of Building Habitat with Networked Tools’, Proc. OzCHI 2008, Cairns, Dec 2008

Healey, P.G., White, G., Eshghi, A., Reeves, A. J. and Light, A. (2008) ‘Communication Spaces’ Computer Supported Cooperative Work,17 (2-3)

Light, A., Weaver, L., Healey, P.G. and Simpson, G. (2008) ‘Adventures in the Not Quite Yet: using performance techniques to raise design awareness about digital networks’ Proc. DRS, Sheffield, July 2008

Light, A. and Miskelly, C. (2008) ‘Brokering between Heads and Hearts: an analysis of designing for social change’ in Proc. DRS 2008, Sheffield, July 2008

Dearden, A. and Light, A. (2008) Designing for e-Social Action: An Application Taxonomy, in Proc. Design Research Society 2008, Sheffield July 2008

Dearden, A. and Light, A. (2008) On Social Function: New Language for Discussing Technology for Social Action, in Proc. DIAC 2008, California, June 2008

Light, A. (2008) ‘Transports of Delight?: What the experience of receiving (mobile) phone calls can tell us about design’ in special issue on ‘Enchantment, Experience and Interaction Design’, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 12 (5), pp 391-400

Light, A., Blythe, M and Reed, D. (2008) ‘Defamiliarising Design’, Design Principles and Practices 1(4) 63-72

Blythe, M., Light, A. and O’Neill, S. (2007) ‘Untitled: emerging cultural forms in the digital age’, editors’ commentary for Culture, Creativity and Technology special issue of Human Technology http://www.humantechnology.jyu.fi/archives/february07.html

Healey, P.G. and Light, A. (2007) ‘When Scoring doesn’t Matter: The aesthetics of performance in arcade games’, CoDesign 3, supp 1, 2007,Special Issue: Affective Communications in Design Challenges for Researchers

Light, A (2006) ‘Adding Method to Meaning: a technique for exploring peoples’ experience with digital products’ in special issue on ‘User Experience’, Behaviour & Information Technology, 25 (2), pp175-187 (A)

Cook, J. and Light, A. (2006) ‘New Patterns of Power and Participation? Designing ICT for Informal and Community Learning’, E-Learning 3(1) pp51-61.

Light, A. (2004) ‘Designing to Persuade: the Use of Emotion in Networked Media’ in Interacting with Computers, 16, pp729-738

Light, A. (2003) ‘Participants, Consumers and the Politics of Design: British Information Providers on the Web reconfigure the Audience’ at Towards a New Media Paradigm. EU COST A20 Conference, University of Navarra, Pamplona, June 2003.

Light, A. (2003) ‘Audience Design: Interacting with Networked Media’, interactions special issue on ‘HCI and Mass Communication’.

Urquhart, C., Light, A., Thomas, R., Barker, A., Yeoman, A., Cooper, J., Armstrong, C., Fenton, R., Lonsdale, R. and Spink, S. (2003) ‘Critical incident technique and explicitation interviewing in studies of information behavior’ in J. Library & Information Science Research, 25, pp63-88. (A*)

Light, A. (2001) ‘Interactivity and User Commitment: Building Relationships through Interaction on Websites’, (ed. Blandford, A., Vanderdonckt, J. and Gray P.), People and Computers 15, London: Springer-Verlag, pp459-474.

Light, A. and Wakeman, I.  (2001) ‘Beyond the Interface: Users’ Perceptions of Interaction and Audience on Websites’ in special issue of Interacting with Computers on ‘Interfaces for the Active Web’, 13, pp325-351

Light, A. (2001) ‘The Influence of Context on Users’ Responses to Websites’ in ISIC New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 2001

Light, A. and Wakeman, I. (2000) ‘“My name’s Chris…”: the Effect of Producer Visibility on the Use of Interactive Websites’ Proc. OZCHI2000

Light, A. and Rogers, Y. (1999) ‘Conversation as Publishing: the Role of News Forums on the Web’, in special issue of J. Computer-Mediated Communication on ‘Persistent Conversation’, 4(4) http://www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol4/issue4/.

McIlhagga, M., Light, A. and Wakeman, I. (1998) ‘Design Choices for Adaptive Applications’, the Fourth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (Mobicom 98), Dallas, October 1998.