consultancy

Please contact me if you would like support in any of the areas listed below.

 

UX Research

Organising and facilitating stakeholder workshops and creative activities for requirements elicitation and concept realisation. Analysis of findings to identify user and context specific insights, enabling evidence-based design.

Usability Testing

Carrying out expert and user-based usability evaluation studies for applications and products.

Data Mining and Visualisation

Identifying trends and patterns in large multi-dimensional data sets.

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External Activities

  • 2nd March 2012, Design Ahead: Design for an Ageing Population, Bath, UK. A KT-EQUAL Event; Talk on Designing to Support Active Ageing: Challenges and Opportunities

  • 28th Sept 2011, Ambient Assisted Living Forum 2011, Lecce, Italy; Invited to be part of a panel discussion on Independence and Participation in the Self-Serve Society

  • 3rd Sept 2011, Celebration of Age, Colston Hall, Bristol; Invited presentation and public engagement – Exploring user acceptance of assistive robotics. (Jointly with S. Dogramadzi, D. Ellender and D. Raabe)

  • 17th August 2011, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Summer School on Telecommunications; Invited session: A Human-Centred Design approach for developing independent living technology for older adults, (Jointly with H.Heuval)

  • 15th July 2011, UX Bristol. Conference involving practitioners from the fields of usability, information architecture and user experience disciplines; Organised and ran a workshop: Cultural probes for user research (Jointly with A.Flind)

  • 4th July 2011, Festival of IT and Older People July 4th 2011, Plymouth; Invited Presentation and debate

  • 27th – 30th June 2011, CBMS 2011 – 24th Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems (IEEE); Track Chair – Proposed, organised and ran a special track on Assistive Technologies – Human-Centred Design Approaches for Assistive Technology Development

  • 9th June 2011, Digicult 2011, organised by FET and the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE; Demonstration of Interactive Installation developed for the Welcoming Echoes project

  • 1st April 2011, ‘INVEST IN IMAGINATION’ - Using Technology to remain independent. Organised by the Hereford Council, Age Concern, Hereford Carers Support and Services for Independent Living; Invited speaker - presentation of MOBISERV project concepts and current research + Stall at event (Jointly with S. Evans)