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Profile

Research

My general areas of research interest lie in user centred design and applications to support well being.  I am particularly interested in using applications to support wellbeing in people with Borderline Personality Disorder. I would be interested in supervising any project in these areas.  Current research projects include:

• Designing mobile applications to facilitate 'self soothing'
• Investigating IT based support mechanisms and developing ‘well being’ applications for people with Borderline Personality Disorder.
• Applications of user centred design and evaluation in tourism websites, in developing countries.

PhD students.

• Miss Claire Ancient
• Mr Morgan Eldred
• Mr Rislan Kanya

I would be particularly interested in supervising any self funding students who have an interest in applications to support well being and ‘self soothing’.  Additionally, research projects with a focus upon usability, accessibility and user experience.

Journal/conference peer reviewing and conference committee

• Committee Member for the International Scientific  Conference Computer and Solutions in Manufacturing Engineering – CoSME
• Member of the Editorial Review board of the International Journal of  Hospitality Management
• Invited reviewer for  the International Interact Conference

Teaching

• Graphical User Interface Design & Evaluation (GUIDE)
• Human Computer Interaction Design (HUCID)
• Research Project for Strategic Business IT
• Professional and Ethical Development (PAED)
• Erasmus Co-ordinator for Brasov University, Romania

Qualifications

• PhD Information Systems (2008)
  Thesis title:  A Method to Improve Web Accessibility: Re-ordering Web Search Results According to User Needs
• PGC Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, University of Portsmouth (2005)
• Master of Science, University of Sussex: Human Centred Computer Systems (2002)
• Bachelor of Science, University of Brighton: Computer Science (2001)

Recent Publications

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Professional Memberships

• British HCI Group
• Web Access Initiative Group
• British Computer Society 
• Higher Education Academy

Knowledge Transfer and Consultancy

I have been involved in a number of projects, offering a consultancy service primarily in usability, accessibility as well as e-Commerce.