Geraldine Fitzpatrick has been the Director of the Interact lab since June 2003. She previously worked as a user experience consultant in London and prior to that as 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
Room: 5A8
Projects
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
Books
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.]
Kuutti, K., Karsten, E., Fitzpatrick, G., Dourish, P., Schmidt, K. (Eds) (2003)
Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work - ECSCW2003, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands.
Journal Papers
Luckin R., du Boulay, B., Smith, H., Underwood, J., Brewster, D., Fitzpatrick, G., Holmberg, J., Kerawalla, L., Pearce, D., Tunley, H. Building Bridges: Using Mobile Technology to Create Flexible Learning Contexts. Submitted to
Journal of Interactive Media in Education.
Price, S., Stanton-Fraser, D., Rogers, Y., and Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) Developing Hands-on Scientific Inquiry Skills through the use of Pervasive Technologies in the Field. Submitted to
The Journal of the Learning Sciences.
Rogers, Y., Price, S., Randell, C., Stanton Fraser, D., Weal, M., Fitzpatrick, G. Ubi-leaning: Integrating indoor and outdoor learning experiences. In
Communications of the ACM,
Vol 48:1, Jan 2005, pp 55-59.
Fitzpatrick, G. (2004)
Integrated Care and the Working Record.
In
The Health Informatics Journal,
Vol 10, 251-252
.
Randell, C., Price, S., Rogers, Y., Harris, E. and Fitzpatrick, G. (2004) The Ambient Horn: designing a novel audio-based learning experience. In
Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Vol 8:3, 144-161.
Fitzpatrick, G., Kaplan, S., Mansfield, T., Arnold, D., Segall, B. (2002) "Supporting public availability and accessibility with Elvin: Experiences and reflections", in
Computer Supported Cooperative Wor k, Special Issue on Awareness, vol 11, pp.447-474.
Fitzpatrick, G. (2000) "
Centres, Peripheries and Electronic Communication: changing work practice boundaries ",
Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, S. Bodker and O. Bertlesen (special issue eds), Vol 12, pp.115-148.
Greenberg, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Gutwin, C., Kaplan, S. (2000) "
Adapting the Locales Framework for Heuristic Evaluation of Groupware ", in
Australian Journal of Information Systems, Vol 7, No 2, pp102-108.
Mansfield, T., Kaplan, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Phelps, T., Fitzpatrick M. and Taylor, R. (1999) "Toward Locales: Supporting collaboration with Orbit", in
Journal of Information and Software Technology, Vol. 41, pp367-382.
Fitzpatrick G. and J. Welsh, J. (1995) "
Process Support: inflexible imposition or chaotic composition? ", in
Interacting with Computers, Vol 7, No 2, pp. 167-180.
Book Chapters
Fitzpatrick, G. (2002) "The Locales Framework: making social thinking accessible for software practitioners?",
Social Thinking, Software Practice, Y. Dittrich, C. Floyd and R. Klischewski (Eds), MIT Press, pp. 141-160.
Fitzpatrick, G. (2002) "Bootstrapping Expertise Sharing",
Sharing Expertise:
Beyond Knowledge Management, M. Ackerman, V. Pipek and V. Wulf (eds), MIT Press, pp 81-110.
Conference Papers
Jungmann, M., Fitzpatrick, G., and Mania, K. (2006) Night-Shift: A Co-Creative Fluid Sculpture / sketched_0592. Submitted to SIGGRAPH
Jungmann, M., Fitzpatrick, G., and Mania, K. (2006) Under the influence of art in design: embody the probes. Submitted to NordiCHI 2006.
O’Connor, C. and Fitzpatrick, G. (2006) Exploratory prototypes for video: interpreting PD for a complexly disabled participant. Submitted to NordiCHI 2006.
Stringer, M., Harris, E., and Fitzpatrick, G. (2006) Exploring the space of near-future design with children. Submitted to NordiCHI 2006.
Fitzpatrick, G., and Stringer, M. (2006) Home boundaries: Unpacking technology relationships between home, work, school. Submitted to CSCW2006.
Fitzpatrick, G., Marshall, P., and Phillips, A., CVS integration with notification and chat: lightweight software team collaboration. To appear in Proceedings CSCW2006.
Fleck, R, and Fitzpatrick, G. (2006) Supporting Collaborative Reflection with a Passive Image Capture Device. To appear in Proc COOP2006.
Kern, D., Stringer, M., Fitzpatrick, G., Schmidt, A. Curball – a prototype tangible game for inter-generational play. To appear Proc Workshop on Tangible Interaction in Collaborative Environments (TICE 2006), IEEE Press, Manchester June 2006.
Weal, M., Hornecker, E., Cruikshank, D., Michaelides, D., Millard, DeRoure, D., Halloran, J., Fitzpatrick, G. (2006) Requirements for In-Situ Authoring of Location Based Experiences. To appear Proc Mobile HCI, Finland Sept 12-15, 2006.
DeRoure, D., Millard, I. , Cruickshank, D., Millard, D., Weal, M., Michaelides, D., Fitzpatrick, G., (2006) Facilitating Re-use in Pervasive Experiences through Semantic Web Technology. Submitted to 2
nd International Workshop on Location- and Context-Awareness (LOCA 2006) Dublin Ireland May 2006, Springer-Verlag LNCS.
Stringer, M., Fitzpatrick. G., Harris, E. (2006) Lessons for the Future: Experiences with the installation and use of today's domestic sensors and technologies. In
Proceedings 4
th International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2006
). Dublin Ireland May 2006, Springer-Verlag LNCS, pp383-399.
Hornecker, E., Halloran, J., Fitzpatrick, G., Weal, M., Millard, D., Michaelides, D., Cruickshank, D., and De Roure, D. (2006) Unfolding understandings: co-designing ubicomp in situ, over time. To appear in Proc DIS 2006, US, ACM Press, 2006.
Hornecker, E., Halloran, J., Fitzpatrick, G., Weal, M., Millard, D., Michaelides, D., and De Roure, D. (2006) Ubicomp in opportunity spaces: Challenges for participatory design. To appear in Proc PDC 2006, Trento Italy, ACM Press, 2006.
Halloran, J., Hornecker, E., Fitzpatrick, G., Weal, M., Millard, D., Michaelides, D., and De Roure, D. (2006) The Literacy Fieldtrip: Using Ubicomp to support children’s creative writing. To appear in Proceedings Interaction Design and Children (IDC 2006), ACM Press, Tampere, Finland, June 7-9 2006.
Weal, M., Cruikshank, D., Michaelides, D., Millard, DeRoure, D., Halloran, J., Hornecker, E., Fitzpatrick, G. (2006) A persistent infrastructure for augmented field trips. To appear in Proceedings of Ed-Media 2006, AACE, Orlando, FL, June 2006.
Weal, M., Cruikshank, D., Michaelides, D., Millard, D., DeRoure, Hornecker, E., Halloran, J., Fitzpatrick, G. (2006) A lightweight infrastructure for augmented filed trips. To appear in
Proceedings of 2nd IEEE International Workshop on PervasiveE Learning (PerEL 2006) Italy .
Halloran, J., Hornecker, E., Fitzpatrick, G., Millard, D., Weal, M. (2005) The Chawton House Experience - Augmenting the Grounds of a Historic Manor House
. In Proc Int Workshop Rethinking Technology in Museums. L. Ciolfi, M. Cooke, T. Hall, L.J. Bannon, S. Oliva (eds.). Limerick. June 2005. pp. 54-65 Limerick. Available from
http://www.idc.ul.ie/museumworkshop/Papers/HalloranetAl.pdf (last accessed Oct 25 2005).
Izadi, S., Brignull, H., Fitzpatrick., G., Rogers , Y., Rodden, T. and Lindley, S., (2005) The Iterative Design and Study of a Large Display for Shared and Sociable Spaces. In
ACM Proceedings of Designing for User Experience (DUX2005), San Francisco, CA , Nov 2005, ACM Press.
Smith, H., Luckin, R., Fitzpatrick, G., Avramides, K. and Underwood, J. (2005)
Technology at work to mediate collaborative scientific enquiry in the field. In
Proc
AIED2005, Amsterdam , 18 - 22 July, IOS Press, pp. 603-610. [Nominated for Best Paper award]
Stanton Fraser, D., Smith, H., Tallyn, E., Kirk, D., Benford, S., Rowland, D., Paxton, M., Price, S., Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) The SENSE project: a context-inclusive approach to studying environmental science within and across schools. In
Proceeding CSCL 2005 Taipei, Taiwan , May 30 - June 4, 155-159.
Underwood, J., Luckin, R., Fitzpatrick, G., Steed, A., Spinello, S., Greenhalgh, C., Egglestone, S., Hampshire, (2004) A. "
From e-Science for Children to e-Services for Educators ", In
Proceedings Grid Learning Services (GLSą04) workshop at ITS2004, Maceio Brazil.
Randall, C., Price, S., Rogers, Y., Harris, E., Fitzpatrick, G. (2004) The ambient horn: Designing a novel audio-based learning experience. In
Proceedings Appliance Design (2AD), Bristol.
Halloran, J., Fitzpatrick, G., Rogers, Y. and Marshall, P. (2004) Does it matter if you don't know who's talking Multiplayer gaming with voiceover IP. In
Proc. CHI'2004, ACM. 1215-1218.
Smith, H., Fitzpatrick, G. and Rogers, Y. (2004) Eliciting reactive and reflective feedback for a social communication tool: a multi session approach. In
Proc. Designing Interactive Systems (DIS) International Conference, 1-4 August 2004, Cambridge, MA, 39-48.
Rogers, Y., Price, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Fleck, R., Harris, E., Smith, H., Randell, C., Muller, H., O'Malley, C., Stanton, D., Thompson, M. and Weal, M. (2004) Ambient Wood: Designing new forms of digital augmentation for learning outdoors. In
Proc. Interaction Design and Children, ACM, New York. 3-10.
Harris, E., Fitzpatrick, G., Rogers, Y., Phelps, T., and Price, S. (2004)
From Snark to Park: Lessons learnt moving pervasive experiences from indoors to outdoors. In Proceedings of 5th Australasian User Interface Conference New Zealand , Australian Computer Society, Inc. 39-48.
Halloran, J., Rogers, Y. and Fitzpatrick, G. (2003) From text to talk: multiplayer games and voiceover IP. In
Proceedings of Level Up: 1st International Digital Games Research Conference, 130-142
Austin, D., Szeto, H., Fitzpatrick, G., Wyeth, P. "Understanding community health care: Implications for technology design", in CD-ROM
Proceedings of Health Informatics Conference (HICą2001), Canberra, Australia, July 2001.
Kaplan, S., Fitzpatrick, G., and Docherty, M. "
Stepping into Cooperative Buildings ", in
Proceedings AUICą2000, IEEE Press, Canberra, Jan 2000, pp. 33-40.
Fitzpatrick, G., Mansfield, T., Kaplan, S., Arnold, D., Phelps, T., Segall, B. "
Augmenting the workaday world with Elvin " in
Proceedings ECSCW99, Copenhagen, Sep 1999, 431-451.
Greenberg, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Gutwin, C. and Kaplan, S. "Adapting the Locales Framework for Heuristic Evaluation of Groupware", in
Proceedings of OzCHIą99, Nov 1999, pp. 30-36.
Fitzpatrick, G., Kaplan, S. and Mansfield, T. "
Applying the Locales Framework to Understanding and Designing ", in
Proceedings of OzCHIą98, IEEE Press, New Zealand, 1998, pp. 122-129.
Fitzpatrick, G., Kaplan, S. and Parsowith, S. "
Experience in Building a Cooperative Distributed Organisation: Lessons for Cooperative Buildings," in
Proceedings of Cooperative Buildings: Integrating Information, Organization and Architecture (CoBuild '98) LNCS 1370, Darmstadt, Germany, 1998, pp. 66-79.
Fitzpatrick, G., Parsowith, S., Segall, B. and Kaplan, S. "Tickertape: Awareness in a Single Line", short paper in
CHIą98 Summary, ACM Press, Los Angeles, 1998, pp. 231-282
Parsowith, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Kaplan, S., Segall, B. and Boot, J. "Tickertape: Notification and Communication in a Single Line", in
Proceedings of APCHIą98, IEEE Press, Japan, 1998, pp. 139-144.
Kaplan, S., Fitzpatrick, G., and Herring, C. "Centres of Collaborative Work", in
Proceedings of COOPą98, Cannes, 1998, Vol II pp. 89-92.
Fitzpatrick G. and Kaplan, S. "Designing support for remote intensive-care telehealth using the locales framework" in
Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems (DISą97), ACM Press, Amsterdam, 1997, pp. 173-184.
Mansfield, T., Kaplan, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Phelps, T., Fitzpatrick, M. and Taylor, R. "Evolving Orbit: A progress report on building locales", in
Proceedings of Groupą97, ACM Press, Phoenix, Arizona, Nov 1997, pp. 241-250.
Kaplan, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Mansfield T. and Tolone, W. "
MUDdling Through ", in
Proceedings of HICSS30, IEEE Press, Hawaii, 1997, pp. 539-548.
Fitzpatrick, G., Kaplan, S., and Mansfield, T. "Physical spaces, virtual places and social worlds: A study of work in the virtual." in
Proceedings of CSCW'96, ACM Press, Boston, MA, 1996, pp. 334-343.
Fitzpatrick, G., Mansfield, T. and Kaplan, S. "
Locales Framework: Exploring Foundations for Collaboration Support ", in
Proceedings OzCHIą96, IEEE Press, New Zealand, 1996, pp. 34-41.
Fitzpatrick, G., Kaplan, S. and Tolone, B. "
Work, Locales and Distributed Social Worlds," in
Proceedings of 1995 European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (ECSCW95 ), Stockholm, Sweden, 1995, pp. 1-16.
Tolone, W, . Kaplan, S. and Fitzpatrick, G. "Specifying Dynamic Support for Collaborative Work within worlds", in
Proceedings of COOCSą95, ACM Press, Milipitas CA, 1995, pp. 55-65.
Fitzpatrick G. and Welsh, J. "Process Support: inflexible composition or chaotic composition?", in
Proceedings of OzCHIą94, 1994, pp. 147-152.
Fitzpatrick, G. "HealthCare - A Distributed Work Environment", in
Proceedings 4
th
Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACISą93), 1993, pp. 615-627.
Misc.
Papers accepted by Abstract
Tallyn, E., Stanton, D., Benford, S., Rowland, D., Kirk, D., Paxton, M, Smith, H., Price, S., Fitzpatrick, G. and Luckin, R. (2004) Introducing eScience to the Classroom. In
Proc. of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, 31 Aug - 3 Sep 2004, Nottingham, UK.
Halloran, J., Rogers. Y., Fitzpatrick, G. "From Text to Talk: Multiplayer Games and Voiceover IP" In Proc
Level Up: 1
st
International Digital Games Research Conference, Utrecht, Netherlands, 130-142, 2003.
Fitzpatrick, G. "
Understanding the Paper Health Record in Practice: Implications for EHRs ", in CD-ROM
Proceedings of Health Informatics Conference (HICą2000), Adelaide, 2000. ISBN 0 9585370 5 4.
Whiting, R., Hayes, L., Fitzpatrick, G., Bryant, J. and Bailey, G. "
TARDIS Project Report ", in
Proceedings of Health Informatics Conference (HICą99), Hobart, 1999.
Fitzpatrick G. and Kaplan, S. "Virtual Places for Social Worlds", in
Design for People, M. Groves and S. Wong (eds), People and Physical Environment Research ISBN 0 7298 0296 5, Perth, 1996; Abstract appeared in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Person-Environment Studies.
Fitzpatrick G. and Welsh, J. "Groupware: helping or hindering care processes?", in
Proceedings 2
nd
National Health Informatics Conference (HIC94), Gold Coast, Australia, 1994, pp. 281-285.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Business Process Redesign - Transforming Care Processes", in
Proceedings 1
st
National Health Informatics Conference (HICą93), Brisbane, 1993, pp. 53-58.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Networked Systems Working for Care Providers", in
Proceedings 1
st
National Health Informatics Conference (HICą93), Brisbane, 1993, pp. 53-58.
Accepted Workshop Position Papers
Stringer, M., Fitzpatrick, G., Halloran, J., Hornecker, E. (2005) Moving beyond the application: Design challenges for ubiquitous computing. In Proc Critical Computing Workshop: Ambient Computing in a Critical, Quality of Life Perspective, Critical Computing Conference, Aarhus, Aug 2005.
Stringer, M., Halloran, J., Hornecker, E., Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) Situating Ubiquitous computing in Everyday Life: Some useful strategies. In Proc of Ubicomp Workshop: Situating Ubiquitous Computing in Everyday Life: Bridging the Social and Technical Divide, Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo .
Randell, C., Hornecker, E., Harris, E., Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) Device design for learning using place, intuitive behaviour and collaboration. In Proc of Ubicomp Workshop: UbiPhysics: Designing for Physically Integrated Interaction, Ubicomp 2005, Tokyo .
Avramides, K., Smith, H., Luckin, R., Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) Representing talk and action in collaborative activities for video analysis. In Proc of Workshop on Representing and Analyzing collaborative Interactions at AIED 2005.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Putting technologies to work for remote problem solving". Position paper for UBICOMP2004 Workshop "Giving Help at a Distance". Nottingham, September 2004.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Connecting families, clinicians and extended social networks". Position paper for CHI2004 Workshop "HCI and Homecare: Connecting families and clinicians". Vienna, April 2004
Fitzpatrick, G. "Integrated Care Records Integrated Care Practice". Integrated Care Records Workshop, Edinburgh, Dec 2003.
Halloran, J., Fitzpatrick, G., Brignull, H., Price, S. "Exploring relationships between people, devices and displays", Position Paper for UK-UbiNet workshop, Imperial College London, 2003.
Fitzpatrick G. and Bruza, P. "Views on Context in the Enterprise", Position Paper for CHI2000 Workshop on "Research Directions on Situated Computing", April 2000.
Rakotonirainy, A., Loke, S. and Fitzpatrick, G. "Context-awareness for the mobile environment", Position Paper for CHI2000 Workshop on "The What, Who, Where, When, Why, and How of Context Awareness", April 2000.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Locales Framework as a Shared Abstraction for Understanding and Designing CSCW", Position Paper for Dagstuhl Seminar, Sept 1999.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Locales Framework: Using Ethnography for Systems Design", Position Paper for ECSCWą97 Workshop on "Workplace Studies: Theoretical and Practical Issues", Sept 1997.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Evolving a Ward Without Walls", Position Paper for INTERACTą97 Workshop on "Relationships between Work Organisational Reengineering and Information Systems", 1997.
Mansfield, T., Kaplan, S. and Fitzpatrick, G. "The WORLDS Project: Discovering patterns of collaboration", Position Paper for INTERACTą97 Workshop on "CSCW Systems", 1997.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Locales, Social Worlds, and Support for Collaboration", Research Student Consortium Paper, OzCHIą96, New Zealand, 1996.
Theses
Fitzpatrick, G. "
Locales Framework : Understanding and Designing for Cooperative Work", PhD Thesis, Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, 1998.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Meeting Health Care Information Needs: A case study of Queensland Health Hospital Based Corporate Information Systems project", Honours Thesis, TR 246, Department of Computer Science, The University of Queensland, 1992.
Technical Reports
Prante, T., Meyers, B., Fitzpatrick, G., Harvel, L. (eds)
ECHISE 2005. Proceedings of 1st international workshop on exploiting context histories in smart environments. CSRP 577 Dept Of Informatics, Uni of Sussex.
Fitzpatrick, G. "Computers in Work --- Work in Computers: An ethnographic study of a systems administration group", TR 356, The University of Queensland Department of Computer Science, 1996.
Fitzpatrick, G., Yang, Y. and Welsh, J. "Supporting Cooperative Work Processes - A Survey of Systems and Issues", TR 304, The University of Queensland Department of Computer Science, 1994.
Fitzpatrick, G., Welsh, J. and Yang, Y. "Merlin - A Discussion of the Facts!", TR 94-1, The Distributed Systems Technology Centre, The University of Queensland, 1994.
Book reviews
Fitzpatrick, G. Review of "Designing collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography", in The Computer Journal, vol 7, No. 3, pp395-396, 2004.
Fitzpatrick. G. Review of "Organisational Change and Retail Finance: An Ethnographic Perspective", in
Computer Supported Cooperative Wor k,Vol 10, pp. 387-391, 2001.
Videos
Brignull, H., Izadi, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Rodden, T., Rogers, Y.
Dynamo: A large multi-user situated display for communal spaces. CSCW2004 Video program
.
Halloran, J., Rogers, Y., Fitzpatrick. G. ESPACE: A Novel Interactional Workspace to Support Sales Transactions. CSCW2004 Video program.
Taylor, R., Mansfield, T., Fitzpatrick, G. Crisis in Ragan: Orbit at Work. CSCW98 Video program.
Others
G. Fitzpatrick, "
TARDIS Evaluation: Report on Final Usage Evaluation of the TARDIS Telehealth System ", July 1998.
G. Fitzpatrick. "Groupware" in
Computer Basics for Health Practitioners 1996, L. Zelmer (ed), CQU Press, 1996, pp. 26-29.
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
