Profile
My research focuses on devices and interactions designed with and for emergent users – people in rural or developing regions where connectivity and technology availability are often low. I lead the department’s HCI research group – the FIT Lab, and am also Director of the MSc year of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Enhancing Human Interactions and Collaborations with Data and Intelligence Driven Systems.
My current research is funded by the EPSRC grant UnMute, and various smaller projects. I’ve previously been part of the Rethinking public technology in a COVID-19 era, PV interfaces, Breaking the glass, Reshaping the expected future, Scaling the rural enterprise, Community-generated media for the next billion and Multimodal, negotiated interaction in mobile scenarios projects. You can find out more about these projects and other work at my personal website – see simon.robinson.ac.
Area of Expertise
- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Participatory Design and Co-creation
- Conversational User Interfaces
- Ubiquitous Computing
- Deformable Devices
- Internet of Things
- Emergent Users
- Low-attention and Mobile Interaction Design