PAIPR is delighted to welcome Andy Walters. Andy is leading the research development for the new Interaction Lab. He brings with him key insights on how best to work with SMEs and will be help PAIPR to make the best of the new facility and to develop new ways to collaborate with industry.
We are delighted to introduce Rachel as a new member to the PAIPR team.
Rachel is undertaking her PhD with PAIPR investigating how physicality and Embodiment can influence the user experience of communication technology.
More information about Rachel can be found here.
I am currently conducting a major piece of research towards my PhD and am looking for practising Industrial Designers who have experience of working on interactive products to take part. The study aims to evaluate an experimental prototyping tool kit that I have developed to allow rapid low-fidelity interactive prototyping. If you are interested in finding out more please get in touch by emailing me on ian.culverhouse@googlemail.com
The time has come for Alex to move on, we would all like to wish him good luck in his new role at DCA.
Alex’s PhD thesis can be found here “Contextual Testing of Interactive Prototypes at the Early Stages of the Design Process”
Thank you Alex & good luck!!
Ian has just had his paper titled “Construct, Deconstruct and Reconstruct: Exploring interactive sketching of information appliances” accepted for the forthcoming International Association of Societies of Design Research 2009 conference being held in Seoul between the 18th and 22nd of October.
Jo has everything ready to run the design exercise at Physicality 2009 that we are running as part of the British HCI conference in Cambridge.
http://www.physicality.org/Physicality_2009/Physicality_2009.html
Jo is off to Uppsala in Sweden to present her paper: Physical Fidelity: Exploring the Importance of Physicality on Physical-Digital Conceptual Prototyping co-written with Steve Gill, Gareth Loudon, Devina Ramduny-Ellis and Alan Dix.
Ian is presenting an interactive demo of his research to date at TEI’09 (Third Conference on Tangible Embedded Interactions) in Cambridge today. The conference is sponsored by Nokia and Microsoft Research and looks to be an exciting few days of the latest research related to the world of tangible interactions.
