Dr. Mike Fraser is a reader in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol. His research is concerned with the public and social interaction with new technology, spanning distributed, physically active, haptic, mobile and ubiquitous systems. Over the past five years, Dr. Fraser has obtained over two millon pounds of funding from EPSRC, ESRC, EU and industry. He was research manager of a European Fifth Framework IST Disappearing Computer project (SHAPE) designing, developing and deploying novel technologies in museum settings. He also contributed to the Equator Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration, a six-year major programme of work on merging virtual and physical worlds funded by the EPSRC; Mobile Bristol, a DTI-funded project undertaking technology and user research in city-wide pervasive mobile media; an ESPRIT IV IST Long Term Research Grant called 'Kidstory' developing tangible technologies for classroom collaboration; and an ESRC grant 'Social Interaction through Objects' which studied collaborative work with objects in co-located and virtual environments.
Dr. Fraser recently acted as program chair for the ACM TEI conference and has served on the program committees of ACM CVE and ICeSS. He has held conference committee positions for the UbiComp and ECSCW conferences. He has given invited talks at Xerox Research Centre Europe, Kings College London and the National Centre for Research Methods. He has published papers in ACM Transactions on CHI, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, the CSCW Journal, and also at the ACM CHI (6 full papers, including a best paper award in 2005), ACM CSCW, ACM UIST, ACM ACE (2), ACM CVE (3), ECSCW (2), CSCL and UbiComp conferences.
Selected publications:
Fraser, M., McCarthy, M. R., Shaukat, M. and Smith, P., Seconds Matter: Improving Distributed Coordination by Tracking and Visualizing Display Trajectories, in Proc. CHI 2007, ACM Press.
Reeves, S., Benford, S., O'Malley, C. and Fraser, M., Designing the Spectator Experience, in Proc. ACM CHI 2005, pp.741-750, ACM Press
Fraser, M., Stanton, D., Ng, K. H., Benford, S., O'Malley, C., Bowers, J., Taxén, G., Ferris, K. and Hindmarsh, J., Assembling History: Achieving Coherent Experiences with Diverse Technologies, in Proc. ECSCW 2003, Helsinki, Finland, Kluwer.
Hindmarsh, J., Fraser, M., Heath, C., Benford, S. and Greenhalgh, C., Fragmented Interaction: Esablishing Mutual Orientation in Virtual Environments, in Proc. CSCW 1998, ACM Press.