Barry Brown
Research Interests: Summary
I’m an innovative interdisciplinary researcher who successfully combines the social and computing sciences. In the last five years, in over 50 peer-reviewed publications (in top forums such as CHI, TOCHI, CSCW and UBICOMP), I have described how computing technology can be better designed using a social science perspective. I have pioneered the serious study of leisure and enjoyment: examining existing leisure practice, new technologies for leisure, and trials of systems in use in real settings. Studying a range of different leisure activities, such as video game playing, tourism and sport, I have applied sociological observations to developing these new technologies. This has pioneered advances such as mixed-reality museum visiting, mobile collaborative tourism and augmented-reality video games. I am currently editing a special edition for CSCW journal on leisure and technology, and running the Ubicomp & CHI’07 ‘open session’ tracks. |