Dr. David Kirk BSc, MSc, PhD, C.Psychol
Lecturer of Human-Computer Interaction
Mixed Reality Lab
School of Computer Science
University of Nottingham
NG8 1BB

dsk_@_cs.nott.ac.uk (remove underscores) 		Dave Kirk
Research Interests
My research is principally focused in the area of Interaction Design (or HCI). I am a chartered psychologist with quite broad interests in psychology, philosophy, sociology and design but I generally apply a human-centred perspective to studying information and communication technologies.

More specifically I study people (both in-the-wild and in-the-lab) and use insights gained from this to help design, innovate and evaluate new pervasive / ubiquitous computing technologies, services and experiences. At the moment I have particular interests in ecological psychology, pragmatism and phenomenological approaches to user research.

Specific application areas I have worked in include, computer-supported collaborative work, tangible and surface computing, video-mediated communication, reactive environments, digital archiving (photos and videos) and technologies of memory, reminiscence and memorialisation.

Click here for more information on some of my research projects.
Background
BSc Psychology (University of York)
MSc Ergonomics (Loughborough University)
PhD Computer Science (Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham)
Post-Doc Socio-Digital Systems, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Publications
Click here to see a list of my publications.
Supervision
I will be supervising projects for:

The software engineering group project (G52GRP) see here.

Masters students on the MSc in IT (Information Technology), MIT (Management of Information Technology) & ISD (interactive Systems Design) courses. For a list of possible project areas click here.

3rd Year Undergrad Projects. For a list of suggested project areas click here.
Teaching
2010/2011 academic year

  • G54IHC Introduction to Human Computer Interaction
  • G52HCI Human Computer Interaction

    • 2009/2010 academic year

  • G64IHF Issues in Human Factors
  • G64UID User Interface Design

    • I am also module convenor for the MSc dissertation/project modules for the IT, MIT, ISD and ACS degrees (modules G64PIT, G64PMI, G64IDS, G54PRO).

    Handbooks for these modules are below.

  • IT and MIT Projects Handbook
  • ISD Project Handbook
  • ACS Project Handbook
  • ITI Cairo students MSc project handbook

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