ABSTRACT
In this talk I examine how Interaction Design and Audio can be used to engage people in creative interactions, and how we can then evaluate their mutual engagement with each other. I discuss my group's design and evaluation of mobile music making, electromechanical instruments for children with special educational needs, and how we use sound to empower visually impaired workers.
ABOUT NICK BRYAN-KINNS
Bryan-Kinns is a Reader in Interaction Design and Deputy Dean for Science and Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London, and Visiting Professor of Interaction Design, Hunan University, China. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society and leads Interactional Sound and Music in the Centre for Digital Music. Bryan-Kinns has published award winning international journal and conference papers on his funded research on mutual engagement, cross-modal interaction, and tangible interfaces. His research is reported in publications such as the New Scientist, and media outlets such as BBC, and exhibited at venues such as the Science Museum, London. Bryan-Kinns holds a Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Secondment in recognition of his work on commercialising academic research. He was a panel member for the National Science Foundation’s CreativeIT funding panel, and provided expert consultation for the European Commission’s funding of Creativity and ICT. He chairs the ACM Creativity, Cognition and Art Community, was involved in several research networks focusing on the art-computer cross-over and future design, chaired the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) Creativity and Cognition conference 2010, and co-chaired the British Computer Society (BCS) international HCI conference 2006. Dr. Bryan-Kinns is a recipient of the ACM Recognition of Service Award, and BCS Recognition of Ten Years Service. In 1998 he was awarded a Ph.D. in Human Computer Interaction from the University of London.