Dr Samantha Finnigan

Research Software Engineer

Maker, Sensors, Platforms, Data

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I did my PhD research at Open Lab, Newcastle University. My research interests are sustainability, pervasive sensing, social justice, and data-driven activism. I completed a postdoc with Adrian Clear on the TGRAINS project where I produced a web app for modelling crop distribution. I now work as a Research Software Engineer at Newcastle University, as part of the RSE Team.

I love web development and Python. I developed software, firmware and documentation for the open source BuildAX environmental monitoring platform.

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  • Samantha Mitchell Finnigan and Adrian K. Clear. 2020. “No powers, man!”: A Student Perspective on Designing University Smart Building Interactions. Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020), 14 pages.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376174
  • Sam Mitchell Finnigan, Adrian K. Clear, Geremy Farr-Wharton, Karim Ladha, and Rob Comber. 2017. Augmenting Audits: Exploring the Role of Sensor Toolkits in Sustainable Buildings Management. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. 1, 2, Article 10 (June 2017), 19 pages.
    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3090075

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