Presentations, Publications:

Design Research Network Forum (2009) “Steering Courses and Discourses” presented a speculative research paper titled, “The Phenomenology of Getting Used to the New: Some thoughts on memory, forgetting, numbing and the Zen view”;

August 02009: The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping (PJIM) published a paper of mine "Calm Technologies 2.0: Visualising Social Data as an Experience in Physical Space" in its current issue. The text is about emotional design/experience design and the relationship between Social Networking and visualisation technologies. It was edited by Brian Willison. http://piim.newschool.edu/journal/issues/2009/03/

In June 02009 a modified version of my paper “Designing The Art Experience: Understanding And Improving Immersive Telematic Art With Social Science Methods” was accepted by the journal Digital Creativity for its August 02009 issue, Vol. 20, No. 3, pp. 189-198. This special issue was edited by Stephen Boyd-Davis. (Peer review)

In June 02009 a special issue of the journal “Visual Communication” has accepted my paper “Beyond The Screen: Visualising Visits To A Website As An Experience In Physical Space” for publication in August 2009. (Peer review)

In March 02009 I presented at the conference “Performing Presence: From the live to the simulated” in Exeter, UK. Paper: “Some thoughts on presence, immersion and calm technologies.”

In January 02009 I presented at “LEA09: Completing the Circle: Incorporating Evaluation Methods in Creative Work.” Paper: “Designing The Art Experience: Understanding And Improving Immersive Telematic Art With Social Science Methods” Interdisciplinary conference organised by the British Computer Society BCS, Design Research Society and the Computer Art Society. (Peer review)

In July 2008 I presented at EVA, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts sponsored by the British Computer Society BCS and CAS the Computer Arts Society. My presentation titled "Sensual Displays: From verbose visualisation on the screen to sensual displays in physical space" had slightly progressed from my position-paper "Beyond graphs or charts: Visualising web statistics with natural displays in physical space." in that it presented a range of "emotional presence indicators." (Peer review)

In June 2008 an extended abstract was accepted for peer-reviewed New Views 2 "Conversations and dialogues in Graphic Design." I invested a lot of time into this an extended abstract when I realised that what they actually wanted was an 'amended abstract.' An abstract of this extended abstract was published in the proceedings. Titled "Beyond the screen: Visualising social data as an experience in physical space" it emphasises data visualisation beyond the screen in physical space and the relevance of this for Graphic Design as a discipline.

In 2007 Media-N, the Journal for the New Media Caucus, published in its edition "Bits, Bytes and the Rhetoric of Practice: New Media Artist Statements 2007" Fall 2007 v.03 n.01, a statement of mine which emphasised the relationship between telematics and visualisation technologies in relation to my own research.

In May 2006 I presented the results of my Main Study doctoral study at “Reframing Consciousness 8” conference taking place in Plymouth, UK. ISBN 1-84102-158-X

In April 2006 I co-authored two papers together with Susanne Schuricht and Mirjam Struppek. "Double Room: An exploration of public space with the Zen View" in: Proceedings of Participatory Design Conference (PDC '06 Vol II) for the ACM “Participartory Design” conference in Trento, Italy. And "Freequent Traveller: interaction versus contemplation " for the 1st international conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI 2007) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "Freequent Traveller" has been re-published by London based interdisciplinary journal “Static” published by Birkbeck College, Tate, The Architectural Association and The Institute for Contemporary Art. http://static.londonconsortium.com/issue04/index.php

In April 2005 I presented a paper on my PhD pilot study at the Leonardo/OLATS conference “Planetary Consciousness and the Arts” in Yverdon, Switzerland.

In December 2004 I presented a paper at the doctoral consortium of the “Space and Spatiality” conference at Napier University, Edinburgh.

In November 2004 I presented a paper about my research methodology at the “No one opens attachments any more” symposium at Lancaster University, UK.

In October 2004 I exhibited the screen-based version of my research application Radiomap at the arts track of the ACM SIG Multimedia conference at Columbia University, NY.

In August 2004 I presented my PhD research project at the doctoral consortium of the ACM SIG “Designing Interactive Systems” (DIS) conference in Cambridge, MA.

In April 2004 I presented my research on “Transforming data from one sensorial modality to another” at the Pixelraiders 2 conference in Sheffield, UK.

In February 2001 and February 2003 I presented my work “bits’n people,” created in collaboration with Björn Barnekow, at the “Sound Practice” conference in Dartington, Devon and at the “Learntec” educational conference in Karlsruhe, Germany.

In 2001 our project “world_cam” was presented at the Browser-Day in Amsterdam, created in collaboration with Jörg Müller. A server-side cgi script creates VRML on the fly, rendering webcam images in 3D space above a current map of the world. You can see this principle now in Google earth.

PhD Thesis:

The research was conducted at the Art & Design Research Centre of Sheffield Hallam University and funded by a DTRC studentship. It was practice-based and interdisciplinary encompassing Human Computer Interaction and Fine Art practice. My supervisors were media artist/researcher Professor Simon Biggs and Dr. Chris Roast, Reader in HCI. I was examined by Professor Paul Sermon (University of Salford) and Professor Peter Wright (Sheffield Hallam University).

"This is not here: Connectedness, remote experience and immersive telematic art." (compressed pdf, 5 Mb)
Or first read the abstract of the thesis here: Abstract (pdf, 55 kb)

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