Alan Dix
Things I've done - a mini-CV

Professor Alan Dix

Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham (from Feb 2012)

Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

Professor, Computing Department, Lancaster University (Jan. 2000 - Jan 2012)

Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK

Director, LUBEL (2003 - )

(Lancaster University Business Enterprises Ltd)

email:

university/academic: alan@hcibook.com

url: http://www.hiraeth.com/alan/

Listed below are some of the places I've been and things I've done during my professional life. See also my home page for current activities, my research topics page, and the books and publications section of my home page for things I've written.

Education

* Not really at the same time! I completed the Mathematical Tripos in two years, but Cambridge requires 3 years residency as well as the exams, so in my 'spare' third year I did the post-graduate Diploma in Mathematical Statistics at the Stats. Lab.

Honours, prizes, scholarships etc.

November 7th 2002 - Honorary Fellowship of the University of Gloucestershire

Previous Employment

Aug. 2000 - 2004 CEO, limited

vfridge, Birmingham, UK

Oct. 1998 - 2003 Technical Director

aQtive limited ,Birmingham, UK

March 1999 - 2000. Professor of Computing (part-time)

School of Computing, Staffordshire University

Oct. 1996 - Jan 1999. Associate Dean

School of Computing, Staffordshire University

May 1994 - Oct. 1996. Reader in Software Technology

and Director of the HCI Research Centre, hci@hud

School of Computing and Mathematics, University of Huddersfield

Nov. 1989 - April 1994. SERC Advanced Research Fellow

HCI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York

Nov. 1987 - Oct. 1989. SERC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

HCI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York

Nov. 1984 - Oct. 1987. Research Associate

HCI Group, Department of Computer Science, University of York

Jan. 1984 - Oct. 1984. Programmer

County Treasurers Dept., Cumbria County Council, Carlisle

Sept. 1981 - Oct. 1983. Scientific Officer

Spray Physics Group, National Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Silsoe

(now known as Silsoe Research Institute)

Grants

Past funded projects and fellowships

• SERC Postdoctoral Fellowship (1987-89)
• SERC Advanced Fellowship (1989-94)
• "Investigating mode and concurrency in the context of a generalised mail system" (co-investigator, SERC, 1990-1993)
• "Scaffold" (co-investigator, SERC, 1990-1993)
• "Models for single-user and group interaction (sole-investigator, SERC/EPSRC, 1992-1994)
• "Version management and access control models for cooperative systems" (co-investigator in collaboration with Lancaster University, SERC, 1993-1997)
• "Modelling Behaviour of Agents in CSCW", Joint HK/UK Research Scheme project 9050101 (collaborative project with City University of Hong Kong)
• "Interfaces and infrastructure for mobile multimedia applications", Joint Project under EPSRC MNA programme GR/L64140 (A Dix (PI)) and GR/L64157 (Nigel Davies (PI), Tom Rodden, Adrian Friday, Keith Chevrest), completed October 1991.
• "AMBOLS", (co-investigator with Kecheng Liu (PI), Albert Alderson, Hanifa Shah, Bernadette Sharpe, EPSRC SEBPC programme
• "TRACKER: Reducing Rework through Decision Management", with Ian Sommerville (PI) , John Hughes, EPSRC GR/R12183, £457,483, completed 2004
• "CASCO: Investigating Context Aware Support for Co-operative Applications in Ubiquitous Computing Environments", with Keith Chevrest (PI) , EPSRC GR/R54200, £66,000, completed December 2004
• "IDEAL: Designing the "Ideal" System: systemised corpuses of knowledge in 'information giving service' settings", with Mark Rouncefield, Karen Clarke, John Mariani, Jen Allanson. EPSRC GR/R86676, £102,491, completed June 2005
• LeonardoNet: (management committee) Culture and Creativity programme network, started October 2004
  also leading the SlowTime art project
• CASIDE: "Investigating Cooperative Applications in Situated Display Environment" with Keith Chevrest (PI), Mark Rouncefield, EPSRC EP/C005589/1, £360,509, started April 2005
• TIM - Task-centered Information Managment - sub-project of the DELOS: EU Network of Excellence, joined July 2005
• part of Lancaster teams on EQUATOR and DIRC Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations
• also member of Non-Place AHRB EPSRC Research Cluster, Memories for Life EPSRC Network, Branded Meeting Places Network (lead Edinburgh)

Current projects and networks

• Nokia University Research Donation 2006-.
• DEPtH - Designing for Physicality, AHRB/EPSRC Designing the 21st Century Pogramme
• VISMASTER EU Coordinated Action on Visual Analytics. 2008-2010
• Interact6 Programme Network: Interactive Technologies for the End-user: Fulfilling the vision of a Digital Economy. (lead Bristol) 2008-2010

External activities

External bodies

• Member of the EPSRC Computing College of Peers (1998–)
• Executive Committee member of the British HCI Group executive
• Fellow of the British Computer Society
• ACM XRDS Advisory Board
• International Scientific Advisory Board, CAMeRA - The Center for Advanced Media Research, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Platform Advisory Board, Talis (until joining the company!)
• Editorial Board International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
• Member (until 2002) / Observer (2003 on) IFIP Working Group 2.7/13.4 on User Interface Engineering
• Reviewer for various EU projects: Mefisto (completed 2000), Guitare (completed 2001), TEAM-HOS, Tower, Avatar, Consensus

Examinerships

• Internal PhD examiner: University of York (1993); Staffordshire University (1999;, Lancaster University (2003 x 3,2004,2005,2007x3)
• External PhD examiner: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (1994); Tampere University of Technology, Finland (1995); University of Stirling (1992,1994,1998); University of Dundee (1997, 2003); Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (1995); University of York (1997,2000,2003); Middlesex University (1997); University of Birmingham (1997); Lancaster University (1998,1999); Liverpool John-Moores University (2000,2003,2007); Sussex University (2001); Glasgow University (2001); University of Hertfordshire (2001);University of Nottingham (2002, 2004); University of Sunderland (2002); Leeds Metropolitan University (2003,2006); University of Twente, Netherlands (2003); University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy (2003); Staffordshire University (2004,2008); Imperial College, University of London (2004); Cardiff University (2004); Bath University (2004); University of Tampere, Finland (2005); University College London (2006 x 3); Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (2006); University of Canterbury, New Zealand (2006); Reading University (2006); Southampton University (2006,2010); Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon (2007); Huddersfield University (2007); Eindhoven University of Technology (2008); University College Dublin, Ireland (2009); Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (thesis), München, Germany (2010), Manchester University (2010).
• External MSc thesis examiner: University of South Africa (1994), Reading University (2004)
• External MSc course examiner: MSc in Interactive Computing System Design, Loughborough University of Technology (1995-1998)
• External MSc course validation and examiner: MSc Multimedia, CGCHE (1997-2001)
• Chief external examiner: Postgraduate Modular Scheme, CGCHE now University of Gloucestershire (1997-2001)
• External MSc course examiner: MSc Multimedia Computing, University of Central Lancashire (2000-2003)
• External MSc course examiner: MSc Information Processing, University of York (2005-2008)
• External MSc course examiner: Masters in Interactive Media Course, University of Limerick (2008-)

Plenary talks

• Touching Technology: taking the physical world seriously in digital design, Greek SIGCHI Workshop "Human-Computer Interaction: Theory and Practice of design of usable and accessible technologies", Athens, 5th March 2009.
  
• Invited Tutorials: Winter school on Usability Engineering, Anzere, Switzerland, 26-30 Jan 2009.
• SIGCHI Ireland Inaugural Lecture: Human–Computer Interaction in the early 21st century: a stable discipline, a nascent science, and the growth of the long tail, Dublin, 2nd Dec. 2008.
• distinguished lecture series: Human–Computer Interaction: as it was, as it is, and as it may be, St Andrews, Scotland, 6th Nov. 2008.
• Using the Web of Data at WOD-PD 2008, Web of Data Practitioners Days, Vienna, Austria, 22-23 Oct. 2008.
• invited tutorial: Interaction with and through the mobile at MobiKUI 2008 - First International Workshop on Mobile and Kinetic User Interfaces, Fribourg, Switzerland, 13-14 Oct. 2008 .
• Tasks = data + action + context: automated task assistance through data-oriented analysis, at Engineering Interactive Systems 2008, Pisa, Italy, 25-26 Sept. 2008.
• As We May Code - The art (and craft) of computer programming in the 21st century. keynote at PPIG08 - The 20th Annual Psychology of Programming Interest Group Conference. Lancaster University, UK. 10-12 September 2008..
• panel keynote at Social Technologies Summit part of FutureSonic2007, Manchester, May 2007.
• the brain and the web - intelligent interactions from the desktop to the world. keynote at Simpósio de Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais (IHC 2006), Natal Brazil, 19-22 Nov. 2006
• insider/outsider orientation of place and signage and systolic flows, at Design and Non-Place Workshop, Edinburgh University, 29-30 June 2005.
• incidental interaction, at 1st workshop on 'New Paradigms in Interaction Design'. FTW, Vienna, 10th June 2005. Followed by interview and article in der Standard.
• Experimentation, validation and evaluation,
  at Third UK-UbiNet Workshop Workshop on Designing, evaluating and using ubiquitous computing systems, at University of Bath, Bath, 9-11 February 2005.
• Paths and Patches - patterns of geognosy and gnosis,
  at Second Workshop on Spaces, Spatiality and Technology Napier University, Edinburgh, 13-14 December 2004.
• Physicality, rationality and imagination
  at Interacción 2004, Lleida, España, 5-7th May 2004.
• European HCI Theory - a uniquely disparate perspective
  Invited talk at European HCI Research special area CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria, 24-29 April 2004
• Controversy and Provocation
  at 7th HCI Educators? Workshop, Preston, UK, 1-2 April 2004
• Getting physical,
  at OZCHI 2003, Brisbane, Australia, 26-28 Nov 2003
• Deconstructing the experience of (e)learning for delivery ecologies
  at The e-Learning Experience. Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, 15th October 2003
• Being Playful – learning from children,
  at Interaction Design and Children 2003, Preston, UK, 1-3 July 2003
• Managing the Ecology of Interaction.
  in Tamodia 2002 (First International Workshop on Task Models and User Interface Design), Bucharest, Romania, 18-19 July 2002.
• Innovation in IT. Excellence in Education and Training convention 2002, Singapore, 17 May 2002
• Cyber-economies and the Real World.
  at SAICSIT'2001 - South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Annual Conference. Pretoria, 25-28 September 2001.
• In a Strange Land: modelling and understanding cyberspace.
  OCG Branch Office Graz inauguration symposium "Human-Computer Interaction in the 21st Century". Graz, Austria, 13th January 2001
• Welsh Mathematician walks in Cyberspace (the cartography of cyberspace).
  Collaborative Virtual Environments - CVE2000. San Francisco, 10th-12th September 2000.
• Hazy, Crazy, Lazy Days are Over -time for designers to think,
  Designing Information for Mobile and Broadband Network Users, London, 15th December 1999
• Design of User Interfaces for the Web,
  User Interfaces to Data Intensive Systems UIDIS'99, Edinburgh 5th - 6th September 1999
• Annotations a UI Perspective,
  part of invited panel on data models for annotations at COOPIS'99, 1999
• part of the panel "Famous HCI Educators Tell All" (!) at CHI98, Los Angeles, 1998
• Closing the Loop: modelling action, perception and information,
  Advanced Visual Interfaces conference - AVI'96, Gubbio, Italy, 1996.
• Challenges and Perspectives for Cooperative Work on the Web,
  ERCIM workshop on "CSCW and the Web, GMD, Bonn, 1996
• From Programs to People,
  BCS FACS 1995 Christmas Workshop

Conference committees

• SAICSIT 2009, South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 13-14 Oct. 2009
• VAST09, IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Atlantic City, USA, 11-16 Oct. 2009.
• associate programme chair, UIST'09, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Victoria, Canada, 4-7 Oct. 2009.
• panels co-chair, HCI 2009, Cambridge, UK, 2-5 Sept. 2009
• co-organiser Physicality2009, Cambridge, UK, 1 Sept. 2009
• co-organiser Human Aspects of Visualization, workshop at Interact 2009, Uppsala, Sweden, 24 Aug.2009
• EICS 2009, ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, Pittsburgh, USA, 15-17 July 2009
• ICISO 2009, 11th International Conference on Informatics and Semiotics in Organisations, IFIP WG8.1 Working Conference, Beijing, China, 11-12 April, 2009
• co-organiser, Designing for Reflection on Experience, workshop at CHI 2009, Boston, USA, 4 April 2009
• VISSW 2009, Visual Interfaces to the Social and the Semantic Web, in conjunction with IUI 2009, Sanibel Island, Florida, 8 Feb 2009
• IHC'08, Brazilian Symposium in Human Factors and Computing Systems, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 22-24 Oct. 2008
• associate programme chair, UIST'08, ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Monterey, USA, 19-22 Oct. 2008.
• VAST08, IEEE Symposium on Visual Analytics Science and Technology, Columbus, USA, 19-24 Oct. 2008.
• SAICSIT 2008, South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 6-8 Oct. 2008
• TAMODIA'2008, (track of Engineering Interactive Systems 2008), Pisa, Italy, 25-26 Sept. 2008
• DSV-IS 2008, Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, Kingston, Canada,16-18 July 2008
• AVI 2008, Advanced Visual Interfaces, Napoli, Italy 28-30 May 2008
• ISCRAM2008, International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Washington, USA, 5-7 May 2008
• BELIV'08, BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization, workshop at CHI'08, Florence, Italy, 5 April 2008
• co-organiser Designing and Evaluating Mobile Phone-Based Interaction with Public Displays, workshop at CHI'08, Florence, Italy, 5 April 2008
• HCIEd 2008, HCI Educators (IFIP WG 13.1 on Education in HCI and the HCI Curriculum and the BCS HCI Group), Rome, Italy, 2-4 April 2008
• USAB 07, Usability & HCI for Medicine and Health Care, Graz, Austria, 22 Nov. 2007
• TAMODIA'2007, TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams, Toulouse, France, 8-9 Nov. 2007
• SAICSIT 2007, South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, 30 Sept - 3 Oct 2007
• Mobile HCI 2007, Singapore, 9-12 Sept. 2007
• FMIS 2007, 2nd International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems, 4 Sept. 2007
• co-organiser Physicality2007, Lancaster, UK, 2-3 Sept. 2007
• Programme co-chair, HCI Educators 2007, Aveiro, Portugal, 29-30 March,
• EIS2007, Engineering Interactive Systems 2007 (incorporating DSV-IS, HCSE, EHCI), Salamanca, Spain, 22-2 March 2007
• TEI07, Tangible and Embedded Interaction'07, Baton Rouge, USA, 15-17 Feb. 2007
• TAMODIA 2006, Hasselt, Belgium, 23-24 October 2006.
• MobileHCI 2006, Espoo, Finland, 12-15 September 2006.
• DSVIS 2006, Dublin, Ireland, 26-28 July 2006.
• programme co-chair FNG2006 - 1st World Conference on Fun 'n Games, Preston, UK, 26-28 June 2006.
• AVI 2006, Venezia, Italy, 23-26 May 2006.
• associate chair CHI2006, Montreal, Canada, 22-27 April 2006.
• co-chair Designing for Collective Remembering, workshop at CHI2006 (above).
• co-chair Misuse and Abuse of Interactive Technologies, workshop at CHI2006 (above).
• Investigating new user experience challenges in iTV: mobility & sociability, workshop at CHI2006 (above).
• co-organiser Physicality2006, Lancaster, UK, 6-7 February 2006.
• programme co-chair TAMODIA 2005 - 4th International Conference on TAsk MODels and DIAgrams, Gdansk , Poland, 26-27 September 2005
• co-chair eLearning and Human-Computer Interaction: Exploring Design Synergies for more Effective Learning Experiences - Interact 2005 workshop, Rome, Italy, 13 September 2005
• ABUSE the dark side of HCI - Interact 2005 workshop, Rome, Italy, 12 September 2005
• INTERACT 2005 - Tenth IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Rome, Italy, 12-16 September 2005
• MobileHCI05 - Sixth International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Salzburg , Austria, 9-13 September 2005
• DSVIS'05 - The 12th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK, 13-15 July 2005
• SAICSIT 2004 - Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, Stellenbosch, Western Cape, South Africa, 4-6 October 2004
• co-chair, Doctoral Consortium. HCI'2004 - British HCI Conference, Leeds, UK, 6-10 September 2004
• MobileHCI04 - Sixth International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Glasgow, Scotland, 13-16 September 2004
• EHCI-DSVIS'04 - The 9th IFIP Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction Jointly with The 11th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, Tremsbüttel Castle, Hamburg, Germany, 11-13 July 2004
• TIDSE 2004 - 2nd International Conference on Technologies for Interactive Digital Storytelling and Entertainment. Darmstadt, Germany, 24-26 June 2004
• AVI2004 - Advanced Visual Interfaces, Gallipoli (Lecce), Italy, 25-28 May 2004
• co-organiser. CHI 2004 workshop: Time Design. CHI 2004, Vienna, Austria. 25 April 2004.
• SAICSIT 2003 - Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, Gauteng, South Africa, 17-19 September 2003
• UbiComp2003 TechNote Committee - The Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Seattle, Washington, USA, 12-15 October 2003
• MobileHCI03 - Fifth International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices, Udine, Italy, 8-11 September 2003
• IDC 2003 - Interaction Design and Children, Preston, UK, 1-3 July 2003
• MobileHCI02 - Fourth International Symposium on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices, Pisa, Italy, 18-20 September 2002
• SAICSIT 2002 - Enablement through Technology - Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, Port Elizabeth, South Africa, 16-18 September 2002
• CHI NZ 2002 - 3rd ACM SIGCHI-NZ Symposium On Computer-Human Interaction, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, July 2002
• DSVIS 2002 - 9th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, Rostock, Germany, 12-14 June 2002
• AVI2002 - Advanced Visual Interfaces, Trento, Italy, 22-24 May 2002
• Programme Committee UIDIS01 - User Interfaces for Data Intensive Systems, Zurich, June 2001
• Programme Committee EHCI01 - Engineering the Human Computer Interface, Toronto, May 2001
• Programme Committee Awareness and the WWW (CSCW 2000 Workshop),Philadelphia, Dec. 2000
• Programme Committee AVI2000, Advanced Visual Interfaces, Palermo, Italy, May 2000.
• Programme Committee CRIWG'2000 - International Workshop on Groupware, Madeira, Portugal, October 2000
• Programme Committee DSV-IS 2000 - 7th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, Limereick, Ireland, June 2000
• Programme Committee IDA2000, International Workshop on Interacting with Databases, Greenwich, September 2000.
• International Programme Committee INTERACT'99, Edinburgh, September 1999.
• Programme Committee Changing Places Workshop, Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, April 1999.
• co-Organiser British HCI Group Day Conference on The Active Web, Stafford, January 1999.
• Programme Committee FAHCI98 - BCS FACS meeting on Formal Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction, Sheffield, September 1998.
• Programme Committee EHCI'98, Crete, August 1998.
• Papers Review Committee DSVIS'98, Abingdon, UK, June 1998.
• Editorial Board, Workshop on "The Use of Herbert H. Clark's Models of Language Use for the Design of Cooperative Systems", Coop'98, Cannes, France, May 1998.
• Programme Committee AVI'98, Aquila, Italy, May 1998.
• Programme Committee ECSCW'97, Lancaster, September 1997.
• Short Papers Chair HCI'97, Bristol, August 1997.
• International Programme Committee INTERACT'97, Australia, 1997.
• co-Organiser "Time and the Web" workshop, Stafford, June 1997.
• Programme Committee DSVIS'97 - the 4th Eurographics Workshop on the Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems, Spain, June 1997.
• co-Chair CHI'96 Basic Research Symposium, Vancouver, April 1996.
• Programme Committee FACHI - BCS FACS meeting on Formal Aspects of Human-Computer Interaction, Sheffield, September 1996.
• Programme Committee DSV-IS'96, Belgium, June 1996.
• International Programme Committee CHI'96, Vancouver, April 1996.
• Conference Chair and Programme Committee HCI'95, Huddersfield, August 1995.
• Programme Committee EHCI'95 - IFIP Working Conference on Engineering the Human-Computer Interface, Targhee, USA, August 1995.
• Programme Committee DSV-IS'95, Toulouse, June 1995.
• Associate Programme Chair for CHI'95, Boulder, May 1995.
• Organising Committee, CHI'95 Basic Research Symposium.
• co-Organiser Workshop on Software Architectures for CSCW, at CSCW'94, September 1994.
• HCI Group representative on HCI'94 Committee, Glasgow, August 1994.
• Programme Committee, IDS'94 - the Second International Workshop on User Interfaces to Databases, Ambleside, July, 1994.
• Organising Committee, CHI'94 Basic Research Symp., Boston, USA, May 1994.
• co-Organiser, Workshop on Pattern Recognition and HCI at CHI'94.
• Doctoral Consortium Chair, HCI'93, Loughborough, September 1993.
• Papers and short-papers review committees InterCHI'93, Amsterdam, April 1993.
• co-Organiser BCTCS-9 - the 9th British Colloquium for Theoretical Computer Science, York, March 1993.
• Organiser and Chair, Joint IEE/DTI CSCW SIG meeting on "CSCW for mobile and tele-workers", London, March 1993.