I have been developing and teaching a variety of courses in computer science, HCI and cognitive science since the late '80s. At IU I have revised and updated the HCI courses taught at SLIS and developed an interdisciplinary graduate course in Pervasive Computing for students both in Computer Science and Informatics.

Fall term 2005 courses

I590/B649 Pervasive Computing: Ubicomp and HCI

L642 - Concepts and contemporary Issues in HCI
For a class website see sample HCI theory work

Fall term 2004 courses

I590/B649 - Pervasive Computing: Ubicomp and HCI

L642 - Concepts and contemporary Issues in HCI
For a class website see sample HCI theory work

L542 - Introduction to HCI
I501 - Introduction to Informatics: short course on "Nouvelle HCI"

Fall term 2003 courses
SLIS L642 - Issues and Concepts in HCI
- For more details, see sample HCI theory work.
INFO I590 - Topics in Informatics


Fall term 2002 courses
HCI (G5009) - Second year undergraduate course
HCI (803 G5) - Masters course


Dphil students I am co-supervising at Sussex:

Rowanne Fleck Dphil, Sussex, 2002- Learning and public awareness of science
Paul Marshall DPhil, Sussex, 2002-

Learning and tangibles

Jeanette Rollinson PhD, Brighton University, 2000- Knowledge management in a virtual team

Students I have supervised, who have graduated:

Harry Brignull DPhil, Sussex, 2001-2005

A model of interactivity for distributed systems

Liz Guy PhD, Brighton University, 1997-2005

Ethnographic studies of changing organizations

Sam Woolf DPhil, Sussex, 2001-2004 Sci-art
Anna Lloyd DPhil, Sussex, 1999-2004 Assisting novice users search of the Web
Miguel Garcia DPhil, Sussex, 1998-2002 Using audio and visualisations to teach chemistry
Nuno Palmeiro-Otero DPhil, Sussex, 1997-2002

Interactive learning environments and interactivity

Ann Light

DPhil, Sussex University,1997-2001

The transition to Interactivity: Publishing, broadcasting and multimedia

John Halloran

DPhil, Sussex University, 1997-2000

The Activity Space: Analyzing Intentionality in Open Cooperative Work

Jabe Wilson

PhD, London Institute, p/t 1995-2001

Developing Support for Artist Software Designers

Eevi Beck

DPhil, Sussex University, 1990-1994

Practices of Collaboration in Writing and Their Support

Geoff Cooper

PhD, Open University, 1988-1991

Representing the User: a Sociological study of the Discourse of HCI


European Training and Mobility Network (TMR) COTCOS, 1996-2000. COTCOS was an European research network concerned with cooperative technologies. It was funded by the European Community Training and Mobility Program (TMR) whose aims were to improve european collaborations through the exchange of students and researchers. Partners of the COTCOS network were:

-The Cognitive Engineering Research Group (GRIC), ARAMIIHS Research Laboratory, CNRS; National Institute of Computer Science (IRIT), Paul Sabatier University (France)
-CSCW Research Centre, University of Limerick (Ireland)
-Human Centred Technology (HCT) Group, COGS, University of Sussex (UK)
-Interaction and Technology Research Group, King's College London (UK)
-Cooperation and Multimedia Research Group, University of Liege (Belgium)
-The MultiMedia Communication (MMC) Lab, University of Siena (Italy)
-Center for Tele-Information, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
-DYALANG, CNRS, University of Rouen (France)

Young researchers who visited Sussex as part of the network included:

-Morten Nielsen (Denmark)
-Marco Palmonari (Italy)
-Phillipe Geslin (France)
-Gabriella Spinelli (Italy)
-Raquel Navarro (Spain)
-Silvia Gabrielli (Italy)

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