Mixed Reality Laboratory

PhD Sociology, Lancaster; BA Combined Philosophy and Sociology, Lancaster.

Principal Research Fellow (RCUK Fellow)

Andy has conducted a wide range of ethnographic studies of social interaction in the workplace, the home, and virtual environments to inform system design.

research interests

• Ubiquitous and Location-based Computing
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Computer-supported Cooperative Work
• Ethnomethodological Studies of Work, Organization, and Technology

current projects

• e-Social Science Research Node DReSS
• e-Social Science Small Grants Project HeadTalk
• Equator
• IPerG

publications, conference papers

Over 70 peer reviewed articles in international journals, conferences, and workshops; for details see: http://web.mac.com/andy.crabtree/_Mac/Publications.html.

Author of the book Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to Ethnography, published by Springer.

other activities

Reviews for major journals (e.g. JASIS, JCSCW, IJHCS), conferences (e.g., CHI, CSCW, UbiComp), and funding agencies (e.g., ESRC, EU IST Programme, Canadian Foundation for Innovation).

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