Description
Alan Chamberlain is currently a Senior Fellow in the Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham. He has published numerous papers on many aspects of Human Computer Interaction and has successfully obtained funding for research projects. He is currently interested in Ethnography and User Engagement, Locative Media and Rural Applications of Pervasive Computing. His main research interests are listed below.Research interests
His research interests are generally in Human Computer Interaction, Ethnography and Engagement, Rural Computing and Computing in the Wild. I am also interested in Landscape, Location, Personal Narratives and Understandings of Place.
ACM Association for Computer Machinery / SIGCHI Computer-Human Interaction - Professional Member
Current Projects
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Bridging the Rural Divide - Co-ordinator/Recognised Research Fellow/Co-writer (RCUK)
Lead Proposer
Co-Written/Named
Bridging the Rural Divide· - EPSRC EP/I001816/1, Recognised Researcher (Named), 2010 - 2012. Value £935,000 (full cost)
Riders Have Spoken: Designing and Evaluating an Archive for Replaying Interactive Performances - AHRC "Beyond Text Programme" Recognised Researcher (Named), 2010 - 2011. Value £12877.56 (full cost)
Research Council Involvement
2010 Bridging the Urban Rural Divide (RCUK/EPSRC) - Funding/Future Direction Workshop (Selected Member) Birmingham UK
2011 Early Career Meeting (EPSRC) Nottingham UK
Recent Publications
HCI and the Older Population, The 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK 6-10 September 2004.
Chamberlain, A. and Oppermann, L., "The Digital City: Sex, Cams and Scams", UbiComp 2006: The Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Orange County (CA), USA, Sept. 17-21 2006.
Benford, S., Drozd, A,. Wright, M. and Chamberlain, A. "Hitchers: Designing for Cellular Positioning", UbiComp 2006: The Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Orange County (CA), USA, Sept. 17-21 2006. ISBN 978-3-540-39634-5, LNCS Springer Verlag.
Chamberlain, A. Benford, S. Tandavanitj, N and Oldroyd, A., "Professor Tanda: Persuasive Pervasive Play" IEEE Distributed Systems, 2007., ISSN : 1541-4922 . IEEE Computer Society.
Paxton, M. Chamberlain, A. and Benford, S.,"Sensor-Based Sytems for Environmental Education" Accepted for Publication in The Workshop on 'Emerging Technologies for Inquiry Based Learning in Science', AIED 2007 Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2007.
Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., Greenhalgh, C., Et al. "Professor Tanda: Greener Gaming & Pervasive Play" DUX 07 Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences ., ISSN 978-1-60558-308-2, ACM.
Wright, M.,Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., Et al. "Guess A Who, Why, Where, When?': The Visualization of Context Data to Aid the Authoring and Orchestration of a Mobile Pervasive Game" CAMS 07 - Context-Aware Mobile Systems, ISBN 978-3-540-76887-6, LNCS Springer Verlag.
Chris Greenhalgh, Steve Benford, Adam Drozd, Martin Flintham, Alastair Hampshire, Leif Oppermann, Keir Smith, Christoph von Tycowicz, Alan Chamberlain, Report, "Addressing Mobile Phone Diversity in Ubicomp Development" DTI ProjectNo:TP/153421, 2007.
Kanjo, E., Benford, S., Paxton, M., Chamberlain, A., Et al. "MobGeoSen: Facilitating Personal GeoSensor Data Collection and Visualization using Mobile Phones", Personal Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Volume 12 / Number 8, November 2008, ISSN 1617-4909 (Print 2008) 1617-4917 (Online 2007). Springer Verlag.
Connolly, J.H., Chamberlain, A. and Phillips, I.W. , "An Approach to Context in Human-Computer Communication" Semiotica, 196(1-4), 2008, pp. 45-70, ISSN: 0037-1998. Journal of the International Association for Semiotic Studies. de Gruyter.
Woodgate, D., Stanton Fraser, D., Gower, A. Glancy, M., Gower, A., Chamberlain, A., Dillon, T. and Crellin, D. 'Using Mobile and Pervasive Technologies to Engage Formal and Informal Learners in Scientific Debate' in T.Goh (Ed) Multiplatform E-Learning Systems and Technologies: Mobile Devices for Ubiquitous ICT-Based Education. published by IGI Global - 2009.
Chamberlain, A. , Rowland, D., Foster, J. & Giannachi, G. "Riders Have Spoken: Replaying and Archiving Pervasive Performances". In Leonardo Journal for The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology - 2009, Issue 43/1.
Chamberlain, A. Being: Pysical - People, Performance, Art and Space. HCI 09 (BCS-SIGCHI). ws, The Body in Communication, Volume 3, 1-5 September 2009, Cambridge, UK.
Rowland, D., Flintham, M., Oppermann, L., Marshall, J., Chamberlain, A., Koleva, B., Benford, S & Perez, C. Ubikequitous Computing: Designing Interactive Experiences for Cyclists. Mobile HCI 09. 15-18 September 2009, Bonn, Germany.
Flintham, M., Price, D., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A. et al. 'Bicker Manor: A Cross-Media Environmental Campaign using Missions'. ACE 2009 - International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology, Oct 29th - 31st 2009, Athens, Greece.
Rowlands, D., Chamberlain, A., & Gibson, M. 'Sequential Art for Science and Souvenirs'. Possibilities and Perspectives: A Conference on Comics...academic approaches to comics, Nov 21st 2009, Leeds, United Kingdom - Arts Council England.
Rowland, D., Porter, D., Gibson, M., Walker, K., Undewood, J., Luckin, R., Smith, H., Fitzpatrick, G., Good, J., Walker, B., Chamberlain, A., Rennick Egglestone, S., Marshall, J., Schnädelbach, H., Benford, S., "Sequential Art for Science and CHI", Alt CHI 2010, ACM, 10th -15th April , Altlanta GA, USA.
Foster, J., Benford, S., Chamberlain, A., Rowland, D., Giannachi, G. (2010) "Riders have spoken: a practice-based approach to developing an information architecture for the archiving and replay of a mixed reality performance.", International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media, 6 (2). pp. 209-223. ISSN 1479-4713
Bedwell, B., Schnädelbach, H., Chamberlain, A., Caruana, T. ' Pervasive Projection: Exploring the Potential of Mobile Phone Projectors ', ws, UBIPROJECTION 2010, Pervasive 2010, 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 17-21 May Helsinki Finland, 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Verlag.
Giannachi, Rowland, Benford, Foster, Adams, Chamberlain, A., 'Blast Theory’s Rider Spoke, its Documentation and the Making of its Replay Archive', Contemporary Theatre Review (CTR Journal),Volume 20, Issue 3 August 2010 , pages 353 - 367 Taylor & Francis .
Woodgate, D., Stanton Fraser, D., Gower, A. Glancy, M., Gower, A., Chamberlain, A., Dillon, T. and Crellin, D.· 'Using Mobile and Pervasive Technologies to Engage Formal and Informal Learners in Scientific Debate' in Judith Symmonds (Ed) Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications. published by IGI Global - 2010. Pages 1179-1197 ISBN10: 1605669601.
Chamberlain, A. et al. 'Locating Experience: touring a pervasive performance', Personal Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Volume * / Number *, In Press for 2011, ISSN ISBN (Print ****) (Online ****).·Springer Verlag. ACM Library. DOI: 10.1007/s00779-010-0351-3
Marshall, J., Chamberlain, A. and Benford, S. 'I Seek the Nerves under Your Skin: A “Fast” Interactive Artwork'. Leonardo, The Journal for The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, Volume 44, Issue 5 (In Press - October 2011). MIT Press
Flintham, M., Greenhalgh, C., Lodge, T., Chamberlain, A., Paxton, M., Jacobs, R., Watkins, M and Shackford., R. 'A Case Study of Exploding Places, a Mobile Location-based Game', ACE2011 - 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment 2011, Lisbon, Portugal - ACM SIGCHI
Edited Works
Chamberlain, A. "Mixed Reality and Performance", Guest Editor - The International Journal of Performance Art and Digital Media, Volume 7 Number 1, Intellect,. forthcoming (Spring 2011)
Chamberlain, A., Fiore, S., Knight, J (Eds). Designer, User, Meaning Maker: Rethinking Relationships for a more Creative HCI, Published by University of Central England in Birmingham (Aug 2004). ISBN 978-0904354904.· 40 pages, Published from a workshop of the same name at BCS HCI 2004 - Article in BCS Interact (a publication of the British computer Society HCI Group)· and also published in the Proceedings of BCS HCI 2004 Conference.
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Mixed Reality Laboratory (MRL)