I design, build and study the use of novel technologies to support public and social interaction. These include distributed, physically active, haptic, mobile and ubiquitous systems in a variety of settings, both in-lab and out 'in the field'. I'm particularly interested in fusing public human-computer interaction techniques with methodologies and applications across the social sciences, arts and humanities. My primary domains of interest are currently in modern history, heritage and genealogy.
I lead the School's Interaction & Graphics Research Group.
Current funded projects:
RCUK Digital Economy have funded a project through the Research in the Wild programme called the University of Local Knowledge. This is a collaboration between ourselves, Knowle West Media Centre, The University of the West of England, Arnolfini, BBC and the National Centre for the Coordination of Public Engagement.
RCUK Digital Economy have funded a sandpit project PATINA (Personal Architectonics of Interactions with Artefacts) focusing on designing effective research spaces with the Universities of Brighton, Greenwich, Newcastle, Southampton and Swansea.
Mobile VCE and EPSRC have funded research on User Interactions under their Core 5 programme, in collaboration with the Universities of Glasgow, Bath and LSE.
Here's a list of my grants.
Here's a list of my publications. I currently supervise the following RAs and PhD students: I have previously employed/supervised the following RAs and PhD students (and destination where known)
Here is a biography for use in publications etc. Here's a list of older projects I have worked on.
Here is a page on my PhD.