I’m working primarily with Abigail Sellen and Richard Harper on the design of new user experiences for people’s everyday lives. With others in this interdisciplinary team we’re focussed on the reality of life. It’s complex, frantic and unique to each individual and family, and traditional software and technology solutions don’t usually fit smoothly into it. We’re looking at ways in which technology can fit into the complexities of life, rather then insisting on the reverse.
In addition to project work I maintain a blog about technology trends. This primarily contains pointers and extracts from articles about new technologies and the ways in which people are using them.
For more details see my personal webpage, and particularly this About Me page.
- William Odom, Richard Banks, Richard Harper, David Kirk, Siân Lindley, and Abigail Sellen, Technology heirlooms? Considerations for passing down and inheriting digital materials, in Proceedings of the 2012 SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in computing systems (CHI 2012), ACM, May 2012
- Marshini Chetty, Richard Banks, A.J. Bernheim Brush, Jonathan Donner, and Rebecca Grinter, "You're Capped!" Understanding the Effects of Bandwidth Caps on Broadband Use in the Home, in CHI 2012, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, May 2012
- Richard Harper, Eno Thereska, Sian Lindley, Richard Banks, Phil Gosset, William Odom, Gavin Smyth, and Eryn Whitworth, What is a File?, no. MSR-TR-2011-109, 1 October 2011
- Professor Anthony Dunne, Onkar Kular, Richard Banks, Alex Taylor, Tim Regan, David Benqué, Dash Macdonald, Demitrios Kargotis, Kobe Barhad, Nicolas Myers, Sascha Pohflepp, Chris Woebken, and Kellenberger–White, The Future of Writing, October 2011
- Richard Banks, The future of looking back, Microsoft, September 2011
- Graham Pullin, Jon Rogers, Richard Banks, Tim Regan, Ali Napier, and Polly Duplock, Social Digital Objects for Grandparents , in Proceedings of Include 2011 conference on inclusive and people-centred design., Royal College of Art, London, 18 April 2011
- Marshini Chetty, Richard Banks, AJ Brush, Jonathan Donner, and Rebecca E. Grinter, While the Meter is Running: Computing in a Capped World, in Interactions Volume 18, Issue 2, vol. 18, ACM, 1 March 2011
- Camille Moussette and Richard Banks, Designing through making: exploring the simple haptic design space , in TEI '11 - Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction , ACM, January 2011
- Michael Massimi, William Odom, Richard Banks, and David Kirk, Matters of life and death: locating the end of life in lifespan-oriented hci research, in Proceedings of the 2011 annual conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI 2011), Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., 2011
- William Odom, Richard Banks, and David Kirk, Reciprocity, Deep Storage and Letting go: opportunities for designing interactions with inherited digital materials, in Interactions Volume 17, Issue 5, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., September 2010
- Theme: The future of looking back
- Technology Heirlooms
- Things We've Learnt About
- Theme: Beyond search
- Visible consumption
- Domestic 2.0: Connecting and Partitioning the Domestic Space
- Domestic 2.0: Constructing Ideas of the Family
- A Memory Making System
- Designing for Older People
- Theme: Human-centred system architectures
- Wayve
