Mixed Reality Laboratory

Professor of Collaborative Computing

Head of the School of Computer Science at The University of Nottingham

Research Interests

Steve Benford is the Professor of Collaborative Computing at the University of Nottingham where he co-founded the MRL. He is a co-investigator of the Equator IRC. He has published over 250 works, including six papers in ACM Transactions on CHI, 18 full papers at CHI (including a best paper award in 2005), 3 recent articles in Communications of the ACM and a full technical paper at SIGGRAPH. His work has been supported through EPSRC (including the IRC, CSCW, Multimedia Network Applications, Healthcare Informatics, Flightdeck Safety and ROPA schemes), AHRB, ESRC, and under the European Basic, Long Term and Future and Emerging Technologies research programmes. He was project manager of the EU funded KidStory project and is current scientific manager of the Integrated Project on Pervasive Gaming. He is a recipient of the 2003 Prix Ars Electronic Golden Nica for Interactive Art as has been BAFTA nominated in 2000, 2002 and 2005.

EPSRC - Grants on the Web Steve Benford

Teaching

I am currently teaching

G52HCI Human Computer Interaction for undergraduate students. As background (in case you think you might want to take this module), the web page from last year is here, including some examples of great student work. However, I will be updating the structure, contents and supporting material this year.

G64UID User Interface Design for masters students. As background (in case you think you might want to take this module), the web page from last year is here, including some examples of great student work. However, I will be updating the structure, contents and supporting material this year.

Here is a list of ideas for possible undergraduate and/or masters projects for 2008/2009. However, I'm now oversubscribed on undergraduate projects and so, regrettably, cannot sign up any more students.

Publications, Conference Papers

A listing of my publications can be obtained via CSB – The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies

A summary of major research themes and key papers to download

Feel free to download research project videos for use in research and teaching

Directions

I am in room C32 (front of second-floor, middle-wing) of the Computer Science building on the Jubilee Campus (please note that this us not the main campus). Maps and directions

Music

In my spare time, I play guitar with Moose Malloy and Goose McCoy and guitar and tenor banjo with the Big Jig Ceilidh Band.

Feel free to listen to some guitar pieces at www.myspace.com/stevebenford and to selected tracks from Moose Malloy at: www.myspace.com/moosemalloy.

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