I joined Microsoft in May 2007 as a postdoctoral researcher in the Socio-Digital Systems Group, having previously been a research intern with the group in 2005 and 2006.
I have a background in experimental psychology (BSc, University of York) and Ergonomics (MSc, Loughborough University) and spent a few years completing a PhD in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham's School of Computer Science (part funded by the well known Equator project).
I work in a variety of user-focused areas using a mix of qualitative (ethnographic) and quantitative (experimental) research methodologies. I have a background in researching remote collaboration tools (specifically video-mediated communication) but increasingly I've been working in domestic technologies exploring the wonderfully complex, sociable and messy ways in which people live their lives and attempting to apply an understanding of this to the design of new technologies.
Current Research Interests
- Photowork
- Videowork
- Home archiving
- Memorabilia and Objects
- Technology Heirlooms
- Tangibility and Hybrid Surfaces
- Ecological psychology
- Stuart Taylor, Shahram Izadi, David Kirk, Richard Harper, and Armando Garcia-Mendoza, Turning the Tables: An Interactive Surface for VJing, in Proceeding of CHI 2009, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 8 April 2009
- Otmar Hilliges and David Kirk, Getting Sidetracked: Display Design and Occasioning Photo-Talk with the Photohelix, in To appear in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2009
- David Kirk and Richard Banks, On the Design of Technology Heirlooms, in International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech ’08), November 2008
- David Kirk and Abigail Sellen, On Human Remains: Excavating the Home Archive, no. MSR-TR-2008-85, June 2008
- Lucia Terrenghi, David Kirk, Hendrik Richter, Sebastian Kramer, Otmar Hilliges, and Andreas Butz, Physical Handles at the Interactive Surface: Exploring Tangibility and its Benefits, in Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces , Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., May 2008
- David Kirk, Abigail Sellen, Richard Harper, and Ken Wood, Understanding Videowork, in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
- Lucia Terrenghi, David Kirk, Abigail Sellen, and Shahram Izadi, Affordances for Manipulation of Physical versus Digital Media on Interactive Surfaces, in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2007
- David S. Kirk, Abigail J. Sellen, Carsten Rother, and Kenneth R. Wood, Understanding Photowork, in Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., April 2006
