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Geraldine
Fitzpatrick (Visiting Researcher)
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Geraldine Fitzpatrick was the Director
of the Interact lab and is now at Vienna University of Technology, with a visiting postion at Sussex. She previously worked as a user
experience consultant in London and prior to that as a snr research
fellow with the Distributed Systems Technology Centre and Centre for
Online Health in Australia.
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Graham
McAllister (Snr Lecturer, Lab Director)
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Graham joined the Interact Lab in 2007. He
is interested in accessibility and usability of video games and
interactive systems. In particular, how the user experience of video
games can be evaluated and how games can be designed for people with
special needs.
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Eric
Harris
(Research Fellow)
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Eric is a Research Fellow working on the
EQUATOR project and is involved with the design and build of
interactive toys. Before joining the Interact Lab, Eric worked in the
robotics industry developing machine vision systems and hexapod
technology.
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Hilary
Smith (Research Fellow)
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Hilary is working on the e-Science
Usability project exploring play and learning with technology,
visualising social, computer-mediated communication and public
participation in science.
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Lesley
Axelrod (Research Fellow)
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Lesley
joined the Interact Lab in 2007 and now works on the the Patient
Records Ergonomics Project. She rpreviously worked on Motivating
Mobility.
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Madeline
Balaam (Research Fellow)
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Madeline Balaam joined the Interact lab in
2008. She is currently working on both the Shyness in Pervasive
Computing project and the Motivating Mobility project.
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Raphael
Commins
(PhD Student)
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Raphael is working on the Shyness project
looking at...
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Chris
Kiefer (PhD Student)
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Chris is working in music informatics on...
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Dave
Harley
(PhD Student)
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Dave's PhD is sponsored by the Equator
Project. His thesis is on the appropriation of computers and the
Internet by the older generation post retirement, focussing on initial
naive computer use through to Web 2.0 technologies such as YouTube,
Facebook and online photography websites.
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Manuela
Jungmann
(PhD Student)
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Manuela is a PhD student sponsored through
the EQUATOR project. She is developing an interactive art installation
to explore issues around enactive perception and collaboration by
looking at how people engage with the installation through bodily
movements.
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Cian
O'Connor
(PhD Student)
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Cian is a PhD student sponsored through the
Equator project. Cian's research is looking at how video tools can be
made more accessible for people with disabilities. So far his research
has explored how video editing tools can be redesigned to be accessible
for individuals with complex disabilities and the problems faced users
with mild cognitive impairments face when using video.
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Fiona
Rivera
(PhD Student)
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Fiona is interested in design considerations
of virtual characters within collaborate immersive environments. She is
currently investigating intelligence cues for virtual characters with
particular emphasis on the relationship between behavioural fidelity
and visual fidelity of such characters.
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Gareth
R. White
(PhD Student)
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Gareth is a Ph.D. student researching the
design and evaluation of usability and user experience methodologies
for video games, with a particular interest in practical solutions for
titles under development by professional studios.
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Sonya
Barnett
(PhD Student)
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Sonya is a Ph.D. student, part time (started 2008)
researching the fields of social networking and virtual learning
environments.
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