News and updates (2005-09)
...my apologies if not always up to date...
28 May. Caroline Umashangar PhD viva, with Matt Jones as external.
7 May. One of my students awarded an EPSRC Vacation Bursary Scheme, looking into developing user interfaces for proximity-based systems. We'll be working on this over the summer.
10 April. Asked to be on the CHI 2010 papers committee as an AC - roll on next year's conference!
9 April. Worth a mention in itself... presented paper on live TV production of ice hockey at CHI - exciting, and relieved it's over :-)
4-10 April. ACM CHI in Boston. Chaired surprisingly interesting session on user experiences, with a great paper on trajectories (Benford et al.). I'm always nervous chairing, but this went well, despite some quite insane questions...
March ...sometime... Research Leave/Sabbatical awarded for 2009-2010! Brilliant news.
13 March. Marije Kanis PhD viva, with Kia Hook. A pass (with some corrections)! Well done Marije!
12 Feb. Workshop on trust in medical systems in Edinburgh - interesting to be looking back at some of the areas we worked on some time back on the Millennium Homes project.
4 Feb. Dave Martin seminar at DISC - great stuff!
14-15 Jan. Working in Oslo on two VERDIKT panels, at the Research Council of Norway
5 Jan 2009. Chairing PhD viva, Nick Fine, at Brunel with Willem-Paul Brinkman and Ann Blandford: a pass. Phew.
end Dec 2008. My visiting researcher, Antti Salovaara, leaves to go back home to Finland after 9 months working with me at Brunel.
9-12 Dec 2008. Meeting in Edinburgh, more video-on-video.
3-5 Dec 2008. ACM CHI PC Meeting in Boston, USA.
20-21 Nov 2008. Presented paper at SIMTECH'08 - Mundane Technologies in Cambridge, UK.
29-30 Sept 2008. Invited participant at 'Digital Economies' workshop, Oxford.
23 Sept 2008. External PhD Examiner at the LSE for Silvia Elaluf-Calderwood (now Dr Elaluf-Calderwood!), with Carsten Sorensen and Ian Angell.
22-28 August 2008. Meeting in Stockholm (Interactive Institute) looking at 'video on video'.
12 August 2008. Invited participant at panel on nomadic computing at Altitude, London.
24 June 2008. Chairing PhD viva, Duncan Varley, at Brunel.
19 June 2008. Invited presentation at 'Distributed Thinking' Symposium on Distributed Cognition.
29 May 2008. Meeting Oxford 'Creative Industries' research group to develop EPSRC proposals.
15-16 May 2008. Workshop at Microsoft Research, Cambridge. Presenting our paperr with Oskar J et al. on collaboration around live TV production.
25 April 2008. Attending SSIT9 Workshop at the LSE.
5-10 April 2008. Attending ACM CHI conference in Florence, Marije Kanis to present our paper on minimal connectedness.
16-18 March 2008. Meeting in Stockholm (SICS).
9-10 Feb 2008. Papers committee meeting for Graphics Interface 2008.
1 Nov 2007. Meeting in Bristol to kick start a project on behaviour and technology to augment the travel landscape in cars.
15 - 19 Oct 2007. Working in Stockholm at SICS/the Interactive Institute, looking at the collaboration involved in live TV production and implications for mobile/CSCW technologies. This is a seriously underdeveloped area, with loads of scope, and I wonder why...
26 June 2007. Visited by Antti Salovaara from Finland's Helsinki Institute for Information Technology.
12 May 2007. Finally got married to Sam, my partner of the last 12 1/2 years at St. Augustine's church in Islington, London. Great wedding, with our kids leading the day. Drs Kenton O'Hara, Barry Brown and Alex Taylor were all there - thanks for making it after the conference committee meeting! Two week honeymoon (with kids in tow) in Paxos, Greece, returning exhausted on the 28th. Fantastic!
11 May 2007. ECSCW programme committee meeting in Cambridge. I missed the second day because...
28 April 2007. Gave a Seminar at City University on socially distributed cognition, introducing some material that I've been working on with Gabriella Spinelli and Kenton O'Hara on the cognitive role of space in social co-ordination. Presentation (DCog presentation at City v2.ppt) is here.
(major gap...2007) Been rather overwhelmed with conference committee work (CHI Notes, ECSCW, ICMB) and reviewed more papers that I'd care to under any normal circumstances.
21 November 2006. Just heard that a paper from one of the workshops I've been involved in at Edinburgh University (with Eric Laurier and Barry Brown, amonst many, many others!) has been published in the journal 'Mobilities': 'Driving and passengering: notes on the natural organization of ordinary car travel'.
9-11 November 2006. Off to Valencia in Spain as the finalisation meeting for SALTSA (Swedish research network looking at mobile work, and advising trade unions on potential work practice changes).
3 Nov 2006. Received news of the JCSCW paper ('Entertaining situated messaging at home') has been accepted. Its been through a tough review process, so was very relieved about this. Finishes off the On-message@home project with a clean ending(!)
Sept 2006. Started as an Associate Chair (Notes) for ACM CHI 2007, as an AC virgin. Not sure what to expect, but its interesting to see the papers selection process from the inside.
10 July 2006. Dorothy R's research contract ends (I am desolate), fortunately to take up a position at Surrey University just down the road with Prof. David Frolich, who I worked with during my Masters degree.
27-28 July 2006. Invited participant at 'Why Wait', a workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture (see position paper), looking at the experience of waiting (the flip side of mobility?) and developing design scenarios to support this. Fantastic fun - oh, and quite useful too.
12 June 2006. Laurel Swan presented a departmental seminar here: 'Technology divergence and convergence in domestic settings', looking at how ordinary household surfaces come to act as displays and the implications this position might have for home computing. The results "suggest that examining people's intimate familiarity with the home's 'ecology of surfaces' and well-practised techniques for displaying information raises questions about ways of displaying digital information." Lots of thoughts here on digital displays and the future of photography as practice.
end April 2006. Two papers from the on_message@home project presented at ACM CHI in Montreal, Canada, developing the research that we've been working on over the last 9 months:
Perry, M., Rachovides, D., Taylor, A.S. and Swan, L. (2006) Playfully situated messaging in the home: appropriation of messaging resources in entertainment. 'Entertainment media at home: looking at the social aspects of use'.
...and...
Perry, M. and Rachovides, D. (2006) At home with the on_message@home system. 'IT@Home: Unraveling Complexities of Networked Devices in the Home'.
4 April 2006. Presenting the on_message@home system at Microsoft Research Cambridge at the final project workshop for the 'Create, Play and Learn' cfp. Lots of good feedback on the design, followed by three days of conferencing at the Symposium on Intelligent Environments at Homerton College in Cambridge.
January 2006. Paper accepted - follows comment on previous paper:
Swan, L., Izadi, S., Taylor, A.S., Sellen, A., Harper R. and Perry, M. Rethinking the “Smart” Home. 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, Cambridge, UK.
December 2005. Paper accepted (note very accurate last author status :-)
Taylor, A.S., Harper, R., Swan, L., Izadi, S. Sellen, A. Perry, M. (to appear) Homes that make us smart. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
23 September 2005. PhD Opponent (external examiner) at the IT University, Gothenberg (Sweden), for Mattias Esbjörnsson entitled 'Enhanced Social Interaction in Traffic' (congratulations Dr Esbjörnsson!).
September 2005. Invited keynote speaker at the School of Management, Cranfield University, UK on 'Mobile Work', at the Mobile Working: Organisations Unplugged Symposium.
22 September 2005 UWE, Bristol Invited discussant: 'Travel Time Use'. Hosted and sponsored by the Department for Transport and the Centre for Transport & Society (CTS).
11 July, 2005. Joined by a new research fellow, Dr Dorothy Rachovides who will be working on the on_message@home project.
7-8 July, 2005. Invitation to speak at the University of Edinburgh. Discussant: 'Reproducing place', at the Design strategies for non-place workshop (AHRB/EPSRC cluster, Designing for the 21st Century).
10 February, 2005. Presented paper on 'Marked Spaces: interaction design and sensor integration for ubiquitous location-based messaging and communication' at the 3rd Ubi-Net Workshop: Designing, evaluating and using ubiquitous computing systems, Bath, UK.
1 April, 2005. Hosted 'Backseat/Frontseat', an invited workshop on travel and mobile technology at Brunel University.
March, 2005. Hosted visiting Vodafone Foundation and Royal Academy of Engineering Senior Research Fellow Dr Oskar Juhlin, from the Interactive Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.
17-18 February, 2005. Invited speaker at the Mosaic (EU co-ordination group) network meeting, Rome. 'Mobilising work', discussing issues of socio-cognitive co-ordination in mobile work practice, and asking the theoretical question: how is work made mobile?
15 Feb, 2005. Won grant funding from Microsoft Research, Cambridge (MSRC) for the on_message@home project on the “Create, play and learn” call for funding, investigating user behaviour and developing interaction designs for domestic displays (to run 2005-2006).
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