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Background

I joined Microsoft Research Cambridge in May 2007, as a Post-Doc Researcher in the Socio-Digital Systems group. Previously I have studied Psychology at York, Ergonomics at Loughborough and researched for a PhD at the Mixed Reality Lab, University of Nottingham. I have also worked in consumer and social research for a number of consultancies and interned at MSRC twice.

 

Research Interests

I have a variety of research interests which at the moment I might broadly define as being concerned with Digital Ecologies. I'm interested in human behaviour and how a detailed understanding of the intricacies of this can inform technology design. But pushing back on that I'm interested in how new technologies in our environments can affect human behaviours, well designed thought provoking technologies often giving rise to new forms of expression and interaction. My work to date has focused on two broad areas, which I am currently involved in researching.

The first area is video-mediated communication and in particular remote gesturing systems, devices which essentially create new forms of remote collaboration. This work was largely the focus of my PhD research which considered the design of remote gesturing systems from a mixed ecology perspective. (More details on this can be found here).

The second area of work that I am actively exploring concerns the uses of digital media in the home and issues of family archiving. In particular the work is aiming to explore and understand the needs of families to interact with, manage and archive materials of sentimental value which are an integral part of preserving and sharing a record of family memories. And to understand how technologies might be designed to support or enhance these activities.
 

Publications

Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A., Harper, R. & Wood, K. (2007) Understanding Videowork. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 28th April-3rd May, ACM: San Jose, CA, pp 61-70

Kirk, D. S., Rodden, T. & Stanton Fraser, D. (2007) Turn It This Way: Grounding Collaborative Action with Remote Gestures. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 28th April-3rd May, ACM: San Jose, CA, pp1039-1048

Terrenghi, L., Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A. & Izadi, S. (2007) Affordances for Manipulation of Physical versus Digital Media on Interactive Surfaces. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 28th April-3rd May, ACM: San Jose, CA, pp 1157-1166

Kirk, D. S., Sellen, A., Rother, C. & Wood, K. (2006) Understanding Photowork. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 22-27 April, ACM, Montreal: Canada pp.761-770

Kirk, D. S., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2006) Comparing Remote Gesture Technologies for Supporting Collaborative Physical Tasks. In Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 22-27 April, ACM, Montreal: Canada pp.1191-1200

Kirk, D. S., Crabtree, A., & Rodden, T. (2005) Ways of the Hand. In Proceedings of ECSCW 2005, Paris: France, Kluwer, pp1-21

Kirk, D. S., & Stanton Fraser, D. (2005) The Impact of Remote Gesturing on Distance Instruction. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2005, Taipei: Taiwan, LEA, pp301-310

Stanton Fraser, D., Smith, H., Tallyn, E., Kirk, D., Benford, S., Rowland, D., Paxton, M., Price, S. and Fitzpatrick, G. (2005) “The SENSE Project: A Context-Inclusive Approach to Studying Environmental Science Within and Across Schools.” In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2005, Taipei: Taiwan, LEA, pp155-159

Kirk, D. S. (2004). Touching Other Worlds: Remote Gesturing in Collaborative Physical Tasks. Workshop paper for Giving Help at a Distance Workshop at the Sixth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Nottingham, UK

Tallyn, E., Stanton, D., Benford, S., Rowland, D., Kirk, D., Paxton, M., et al. (2004). Introducing eScience to the classroom. Proceedings of the UK e-Science All Hands Meeting, EPSRC, pp. 1027-1029

Facer, K., Joiner, R., Stanton, D., Reid, J., Hull, R., Kirk, D. Savannah: mobile gaming and learning? (2004) Journal of Computer Assisted Learning. 20, 6, pp. 399-473

 

 

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