I am an Assistant Research Professor with the School of Arts Media and Engineering at Arizona State University. I defended my PhD at Dublin City University in August 2011, which was conducted under the supervision of Dr. Gareth Jones, and I also hold a M.Res. degree in Design and Evaluation of Advanced interactive Systems from Lancaster University and a BSc in Computer Applications from DCU. I have additionally published over 30 scientific papers and the majority of my work is situated within the lifelogging domain, or the capture of personal experience through digital means. My doctoral work focused on the creation of personal digital stories from long-term multimodal lifelog content.
My doctoral studies are heavily focused on the areas of lifelogging and personal experience capture. While these domains are the predominant and current focus of my work, my interests encompass a broad range of domains and areas, namely digital narrative and storytelling, video search and summarisation, mobile systems and design, social networks and mobile context data, public displays and task analysis. More generally, I have strong interests in user interface design and interaction design, human computer interaction, multimedia information systems and novel and emerging technologies.
I completed a PhD with the Centre for Digital Video Processing (CDVP) at Dublin City University (DCU), where I was under the supervision of Dr. Gareth Jones. My work was funded by a research scholarship awarded by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET), with partial additional support from CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Techologies. My doctoral thesis is entitled 'Digital Life Stories: Semi-Automatic (Auto)Biographies within Lifelog Collections' and was defended in August 2011.
I completed a Masters by Research with Distinction at Lancaster University. The course was jointly run by the Psychology and Computing departments and offered multidisciplinary education on human computer interaction covering cognitive psychology, computing and design methods. It introduced a variety of topics such as human factors, prototyping, design, and research and evaluation methods. My master's dissertation ("Visualisations for a Face-to-Face Collaboration System") was completed as part of the EU-NZ exchange programme at the University of Waikato (Hamilton, New Zealand) under the joint supervision of Lancaster University (Prof. Tom Ormerod - Psychology, Prof. Alan Dix - Computing) and the University of Waikato (Dr. Masood Masoodian.)
I completed my undergraduate degree at the School of Computing at Dublin City University and was awarded a First Class Honours degree in Computer Applications. My final year subjects included Databases, Software Patterns and Metrics, Computer Graphics, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Software Processes Improvement, Technical Communication Skills, Object Oriented Models, Multimedia Technology and a project. My final year project delivered a web-based project management tool built with object oriented design patterns and an MVC architecture.
In September 2011, I joined the faculty at the School of Arts, Media & Engineering at Arizona State University to work with the Reflective Living Group. I am teaching a 300-level course in Fall 2011 entitled 'How to build a physical-digital system' (AME 394) and will also be involved on the upcoming digital culture festival at Arizona State University, as well as working on the NSF funded XSEAD project.
TRIL is a coordinated collection of research projects addressing the physical, cognitive and social consequences of ageing. TRIL uses a people-centred design approach to translate its deep ethnographic understandings into appropriate interventions. The design team is formed from a cross-disciplinary mix of ethnographers, designers and developers. The role involved facilitating design workshops, undertaking user evaluations, focus groups and interviews, rapid prototyping, concept design and development, and the coordination of projects for deployment in 2011.