Richard Harper is Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He has over 100 papers, 15 or so patents and 12 books, the most recent of which is Fieldwork and Design (with Dave Randall and Mark Rouncefield; Kluwer, 2007). He also co-authored, with Abi Sellen, the IEEE award winning The Myth of the Paperless Office (MIT Press, 2002). He is currently completing Texture: Communication in the 21st Century, (MIT Press), which us due in the summer 2008.
Prior to joining MSR, Richard was director of various technology innovation companies, including The Appliance Studio and Social Shaping Research. In 2000 he was appointed the UK’s first Professor or Socio-Digital Systems, at the University of Surrey, England where he set up the Digital World Research Centre. He completed his Phd at Manchester in 1989, prior to joining Xerox EuroPARC in 1992.
He currently lives in Cambridge with his wife and three children.
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