Mark Rouncefield
Research Interests: Summary
Mark is an Ethnographer and Sociologist of sorts and (despite this terrible handicap) is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Computing. In the picture he is hiding behind the flowers on the right having upset his fellow panellists at ECSCW. His research interests are in Computer Supported Cooperative Work and involve the study of various aspects of the empirical study of work, organisation, human factors and interactive computer systems design. This work is strongly inter-disciplinary in nature and has led to extensive and continuing collaborations with colleagues in Sociology, Computing, Informatics and Management departments both in the UK and abroad. His empirical studies of work and technology have contributed to critical debates concerning the relationship between social and technical aspects of IT systems design and use. In Equator he has mainly worked on the Digital Care experience with Keith Cheverst, Dan Fitton and Connor Graham (University of Melbourne), grappling with the difficulties of investigating, designing and deploying technologies in ‘real world’ sensitive settings. More details of his work and publications (and better pictures) are available on his homepage. |