Geraldine Fitzpatrick was the Director of the Interact lab June 2003-Oct 2009. She is now a visiting researcher at Sussex. She previously worked as a user experience consultant in London and prior to that a a senior research fellow with the Distributed Systems Technology Centre and Centre for Online Health in Australia. She has diverse interests around people and technology agendas, played out in areas such as human computer interaction, user centred design, ubiquitous computing, computer supported cooperative work, health informatics and support for aging in place.
Contact
Email:
g.a.fitzpatrick@sussex.ac.uk
Web:
www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/users/geraldin
Phone: +44 (0) 1273 678982
Projects
My current research is concerned with theoretical, methodological and technical approaches to supporting social interaction and collaboration. Current projects include: Platform Grant, eScience Usability, Motivating Mobility, PREP electronic health records, and Supporting shy users in pervasive computing. (see current projects).
Past research
Equator : exploring the relationship between the digital and physical (taken over 2003, due to finish 2007); our current focus is on exploring pervasive computing in the
home and the
Chawton House 'inspiration for creative writing project.
Older people and play : exploring novel applications of pervasive technologies to support ludic activities and connecting people together.
Curball is one example.
Software team collaboration & Elvin : exploring the impact of using the
Elvin -enabled tickertape on a distributed software team.
Skipping with Sensors
: a configurable interactive play experience for the
Blip@Newlyn (EPSRC PPA project, 2004)
Platform Grant
: as part of
HCT group, to support HCT as a centre of excellence in human-centred computing . A core project is the Disability Skills exchange, supporting creativity for people with disabilities.
In-Touch : new forms of connectivity for distributed social groups (taken over 2003; finished 2004)
Dynamo : promoting cooperative sharing of media via large surface community displays (taken over 2003; finished 2004)
eScience : promoting public understanding of environmental eScience (taken over 2003; finished 2005)
Sense : exploring the relationship between eScience , GRID technologies and learning. (finished 2004)
eSpace : designing new interactional workspaces supporting in-shop customer-agent transactions (finished 2003; I participated in this project after it was formally ended).
Publications
Fitzpatrick, G. (2003) "
The Locales Framework: Understanding and Designing for Wicked Problems ",
Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Sample chapter available from
Amazon ; see
here for an overview of the Locales Framework.]
For full publication list, see here.
In the Press
Work of the Interact Lab has appeared in various local media – The Bulletin, Argus – e.g., re Big Blip participation in 2003 and 2004.
Interviewed for The Guardian re
WiFi on the beach -
Interviewed for NPR radio (US) re WiFi on the beach (
www.theworld.org )
Interviewed for The Hub magazine (Energy sector) re impact of technology on managers
Interviewed on ABC National television news about tele-work – May 31 999.
Australian national newspaper article about thesis work “
Virtual newsroom switches the focus to people ” (April 6 1999, The Australian)
Quoted in various other articles in Australian national and regional newspapers
