BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD, C.Psychol
I am a Lecturer of Human Computer Interaction in the Mixed Reality Lab, at the University of Nottingham. I have a background in experimental psychology (BSc, University of York) and Ergonomics (MSc, Loughborough University) and completed my PhD here in the Mixed Reality Lab (part funded by the well known Equator project). I have also been a member of the Socio-Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge where I worked as a post-doc for several years under Richard Harper and Abi Sellen.
I work in a variety of user-focused areas using a mix of qualitative (ethnographic) and quantitative (experimental) research methodologies. I have a background in researching remote collaboration tools (specifically video-mediated communication) but increasingly I've been working in domestic technologies exploring the wonderfully complex, sociable and messy ways in which people live their lives and attempting to apply an understanding of this to the design of new technologies.
Current Projects
tbc
Research Interests
- Ecological Psychology
- CSCW (Computer-Supported Cooperative Work)
- Tangibility and Surface Computing
- Photowork
- Videowork
- Home archiving
- Memorabilia and Objects
- Technology Heirlooms
Publications, Conference Papers
2010
Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A. & Cao, X. (2010) Home Video Communication: Mediating 'Closeness'. To Appear in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010).
Kirk, D. S., Izadi, S., Sellen, A., Taylor, S., Banks, R. & Hilliges, O. (2010) Opening Up the Family Archive. To Appear in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010).
Cao, X., Sellen, A., Bernheim Brush, A. J., Kirk, D., Edge, D. & Ding, X (2010) Understanding Family Communication Across Time Zones. To Appear in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2010).
2009
Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A., Taylor, S., Villar, N. & Izadi, S. (2009) Putting the Physical into the Digital: Issues in Designing Hybrid Interactive Surfaces. To Appear in Proceedings of British-HCI 2009.
Cockton, G., Sellen, A., Banks, R. & Kirk, D. S. (2009) Evolving and Augmenting Worth Mapping for Family Archives. To Appear in Proceedings of British-HCI 2009.
Taylor, S., Izadi, S., Kirk, D. S., Harper, R. & Garcia-Mendoza, A. (2009) Turning the Tables: An Interactive Surface for VJing. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 4th-9th April, ACM: Boston, MA, pp 1251-1254
Hilliges, O. & Kirk, D. S. (2009) Getting Sidetracked: Display Design and Occasioning Photo-Talk with the Photohelix. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 4th-9th April, ACM: Boston, MA, pp 1733-1736
2008
Kirk, D. S. & Banks R. (2008) On the Design of Technology Heirlooms. To appear in The International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech ’08).
Wilson, A.D., Izadi, S., Hilliges, O., Garcia-Mendoza, A., Kirk, D. (2008) Bringing Physics to the Surface. In Proc. of ACM UIST’08 (Best Paper Award UIST ‘08)
Terrenghi, L., Kirk, D., Richter, H., Krämer, S., Hilliges, O., Butz, A., (2008) Physical Handles at the Interactive Surface: Exploring Tangibility and its Benefits. In Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI'08, Napoli, Italy.
Kirk, D. & Sellen, A. (2008) On Human Remains: Excavating the Home Archive. Microsoft Technical Report. MSR-TR-2008-8
2007
Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A., Harper, R. & Wood, K. (2007) Understanding Videowork. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 28th April-3rd May, ACM: San Jose, CA, pp 61-70
Kirk, D. S., Rodden, T. & Stanton Fraser, D. (2007) Turn It This Way: Grounding Collaborative Action with Remote Gestures. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 28th April-3rd May, ACM: San Jose, CA, pp1039-1048
Terrenghi, L., Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A. & Izadi, S. (2007) Affordances for Manipulation of Physical versus Digital Media on Interactive Surfaces. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 28th April-3rd May, ACM: San Jose, CA, pp 1157-1166
2006
Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A., Rother, C. & Wood, K. (2006) Understanding Photowork. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 22-27 April, ACM, Montreal: Canada pp. 761-770
Kirk, D. S., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2006) Comparing Remote Gesture Technologies for Supporting Collaborative Physical Tasks. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 22-27 April, ACM, Montreal: Canada pp. 1191-1200
2005
Kirk, D. S., Crabtree, A., & Rodden, T. (2005) Ways of the Hand. In Proceedings of ECSCW 2005, Paris: France, Kluwer, pp. 1-21
Kirk, D. S., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2005) The Impact of Remote Gesturing on Distance Instruction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2005, Taipei: Taiwan, LEA, pp. 301-310
Stanton Fraser, D., Smith, H., Tallyn, E., Kirk, D., Benford, S., Rowland, D., Paxton, M., Price, S. and Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) The SENSE Project: A Context-Inclusive Approach to Studying Environmental Science Within and Across Schools. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2005, Taipei: Taiwan, LEA, pp.155-159
2004
Kirk, D. S. (2004). Touching Other Worlds: Remote Gesturing in Collaborative Physical Tasks. Workshop paper for Giving Help at a Distance Workshop at the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, UK
Tallyn, E., Stanton, D., Benford, S., Rowland, D., Kirk, D., Paxton, M., et al. (2004). Introducing eScience to the classroom. In Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, EPSRC, pp. 1027-1029
Facer, K., Joiner, R., Stanton, D., Reid, J., Hull, R., Kirk, D. Savannah: mobile gaming and learning? (2004) >Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 20, 6, pp. 399-473
Contact Details
| Email: | dsk_@_cs.nott.ac.uk (remove underscores) |
| Web: | www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dsk |
| Tel: | +44 (0)115 84 6651 |