Public Computing Group
Staff
 Kirsten Cater |
Dr. Kirsten Cater's research is concerned with designing elegant solutions for delivering the maximum user experience from devices with limited processing capability by using knowledge of human-computer interaction. The use of psychophysical experimentation to gain important insights can be used to feed back into the development of technology. Such interdisciplinary research is of increasing importance as we strive to extract the maximum performance from computer systems by exploiting the knowledge that human beings, with their implicit limitations, are in fact the end users.
Another area that she is interested in is user experience design, as this is a major driver for consumer purchases and differentiates services by engaging the emotional needs and desires of people. Mobile technologies are a fact of everyday life and the ability to access services anytime, anyplace, anywhere is beginning to happen. Consequently research into user experience is needed to understand what the right thing is, at the right time in the right place and thus has enormous significance to the future of computing. |
 Mike Fraser |
Dr. Mike Fraser's research is concerned with the social and collaborative aspects of technologies. He has worked with social science and collaborative aspects of technologies. He has worked with social science and other disciplines to create novel and rich forms of social computing. He maintains an interest in distributed augmented and mixed reality systems, social interaction, heritage, and having fun. Mike currently manages and works on a number of projects other than Mobile Bristol, funded by the EPSRC, ESRC and the EU. Current projects include the Equator IRC, SHAPE and a range of e-Social Science activities, including the ESRC VidGrid demonstrator project. |
 Sriram Subramanian |
Dr. Sriram Subramanian is currently a lecturer at the University of Bristol. Prior to this he has held positions as an Assistant Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and as a senior scientist at Philips research labs in the Netherlands. He got his PhD in 2004 from the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands on Tangible Interfaces and Human-Computer Interaction. His research interests are primarily on investigating how users can interact with novel technologies such as digital tables, pressure sensors and multi-touch and multi-display environments. |
Research Staff
 Paul Duff |
 Muneeb Shaukat |
Research Students
 William Pearson |
 Emma Tonkin |