A Lecture by Nick Bryan-Kinns, Thursday February 28, 2013, 17:00-19:00, Room 541

Dr. Nick Bryan-Kinns is Senior Lecturer in Computer Science (User Interface Design), Director of EECS Admissions (Undergraduate and Postgraduate), and the Deputy Dean for Science and Engineering at Queen Mary, University of London. He leads the Interactional Sound and Music Special Interest Group in the Centre for Digital Music and has published award winning international journal and conference papers on his funded research on mutual engagement, cross-modal interaction, and tangible interfaces. 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 was involved in two 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 BCS Fellow, and 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.