IIDI News
The Centre for interaction Design exhibits at Digital Scotland
22/05/2013 Heriot Watt University
David Benyon to present at the Committee of Heads and Professors of Computing Conference
11/03/2013
Professor David Benyon
Professor
David Benyon is Professor of Human-Computer Systems and director of Centre for Interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University, UK. He is also Faculty Director of Interdisciplinary Research. Prof Benyon has been working in the area of human-computer interaction (HCI) and interaction design for over 25 years. He has written widely on the subject with over 150 referred publications covering HCI, interaction design and intelligent user interfaces. He published one of the first textbooks on HCI in 1994 and recently completed the 2nd edition of the textbook Designing Interactive Systems: a comprehensive guide to human-computer interaction and interaction design (Pearson, 2010).
Areas of Expertise 
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Expressive interaction describes the range of new forms of human-computer interaction that are made available through technologies based on speech, touch and gesture. The opportunities presented by these developments promise to be far-reaching, enabling new forms of interaction with information...
Contact
d.benyon@napier.ac.uk
+44 (0)131 455 2736
Room C58
Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT
PhD Project Involvement
Hannah Rudman (PhD 2011-)
Getting IT: action learning as an approach for the successful digital development of the cultural sector.
Owen Lo (PhD 2010-)
Framework for evaluation of e-health platform and services. Methodologies for evaluation of e-Health platforms are still lacking. This research proposes an e-Health evaluation framework that aims to provide a concise methodology for the evaluation of e-Health...
Nseabasi Igoniderigha (PhD 2010-)
Metadata tagging of digital assetsand visualization.
Maryamosadat Kazemitabar (MSc/MA 2010-)
Immune based anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks. The topic Addresses the development of novel secrity echanisms for mobile ad hoc networks, inspired by mechanisms apparent in the biological immune system.
Emilia Sobolewska (PhD 2009-)
Learning to cope with digital technology. Technology surrounds people; it functions as their best friend and the worst enemy. From a trip to the local supermarket, to almost every aspect of people’s professional and social lives technology...
Recent Publications
Benyon, D., Mival, O., O'Keefe, B. (2013, April). Blended Spaces and Digital Tourism. . Paper presented at Proceedings of CHI2013 workshop on Blended Interaction Spaces., Paris, France.
Benyon, D. (2013). Designing interactive Systems: A Comprehensive Guide to HCI, UX and interaction design (3rd ed.). London: Pearson Education.
Benyon, D., Gamback, B., Hansen, P., Mival, O., Webb, N. (2013). How Was Your Day? Evaluating a Conversational Companion. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
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