Welcome to my Internet site. Here you'll find an introduction to my work and my publications in the professional pages, and pointers to photographs, thoughts and draft papers in my personal pages.

In my professional life, I am a researcher, designer and observer of communication technologies. Originally a psychologist by training, for the past several years I have drawn on diverse areas to consider how to design effective communication situations—both face to face and technologically mediated. At the centre of my work is a fascination with people's passions, proclivities and practices.

I have studied and written about mobility and mobile work, distributed collaboration, interaction in graphical and textual virtual spaces, and the augmentation of public spaces with digital artifacts. Applications designed and/or evaluated include cell phone interfaces, textual and 3d graphical environments, interactive digital posterboards and animated interface personas.

I currently work at Yahoo! Research, and am based in Santa Clara, CA. Formerly, I worked at PARC, the Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California in the Computing Science Lab (CSL). Prior to that I was the project lead of the Social Computing Group at FX Palo Laboratory, Fuji Xerox’s research lab in Palo Alto.

My personal interests include film, photography and snowboarding. I can persuaded to ride a bicycle now and then. When I had time, I was an avid knitter. I would say more about myself, but I prefer not to be personal in public. I am British.

My physical instantiation is usually in San Francisco.

Contact

Yahoo! Research, 2821 Mission College Blvd., Santa Clara, CA 95054, USA

Email me at (my first name) (at) (this domain)