Tim Coughlan

Contact

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  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
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• Tim.Coughlan@nottingham.ac.uk
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Research Summary

I am currently working on the 'Bridge to Success' project in conjunction with The Open University, University of Maryland University College, Anne Arundel Community College and MIT. This project will… read more

Recent Publications

• TIM COUGHLAN, MICHAEL BROWN, ROBERT HOUGHTON and GLYN LAWSON, 2012. Exploring New Connections between the Physical and Digital for Future Heritage Interpretations In: Heritage Matters, An ACM CHI 2012 Workshop.
• TIM COUGHLAN, TREVOR D. COLLINS, ANNE ADAMS, YVONNE ROGERS, PABLO A. HAYA and ESTEFANIA MARTIN, 2012. The Conceptual Framing, Design and Evaluation of Device Ecologies for Collaborative Activities International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. (In Press.)
• TIM COUGHLAN, ANNE ADAMS, TREVOR COLLINS, SARAH JANE DAVIES, JOHN LEA and YVONNE ROGERS, 2011. Working with ‘Mission Control’ in Scientific Fieldwork: Supporting Interactions between In Situ and Distanced Collaborators In: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2011. 617-620
• TIM COUGHLAN, ANNE ADAMS, YVONNE ROGERS and SARAH JANE DAVIES, 2011. Enabling Live Dialogic and Collaborative Learning between Field and Indoor Contexts In: 25th British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.

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Current Research

I am currently working on the 'Bridge to Success' project in conjunction with The Open University, University of Maryland University College, Anne Arundel Community College and MIT. This project will produce and study the development of Open Educational Resources, adapting proven OU openings courses as preparation US college audience, and providing support for their introduction in to colleges and other learning environments. The project is funded by the US Next Generation Learning Challenges initiative.

I am also currently working in Horizon to explore Intergenerational Interpretations of the Internet of Things. This project will develop scenarios of potential future technologies and use these as a basis to elicit understanding of interpretations by those of different ages.

Past Research

My research has broadly focused on the design and evaluation of novel technologies to support complex human activities. Topics have included learning, creativity, collaboration, user-centred design processes and lifelong health and wellbeing. I have held several research posts at the University of Bath and the Open University, exploring group creativity in design, the potential for new educational activities utilising mobile and collaboration technologies, creative life story therapies for dementia patients, and most recently, digital scholarship. For my PhD I developed a framework to understand support for creative interaction based on empirical studies and the design and evaluation of prototype systems.

• TIM COUGHLAN, MICHAEL BROWN, ROBERT HOUGHTON and GLYN LAWSON, 2012. Exploring New Connections between the Physical and Digital for Future Heritage Interpretations In: Heritage Matters, An ACM CHI 2012 Workshop.
• TIM COUGHLAN, TREVOR D. COLLINS, ANNE ADAMS, YVONNE ROGERS, PABLO A. HAYA and ESTEFANIA MARTIN, 2012. The Conceptual Framing, Design and Evaluation of Device Ecologies for Collaborative Activities International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. (In Press.)
• TIM COUGHLAN, ANNE ADAMS, TREVOR COLLINS, SARAH JANE DAVIES, JOHN LEA and YVONNE ROGERS, 2011. Working with ‘Mission Control’ in Scientific Fieldwork: Supporting Interactions between In Situ and Distanced Collaborators In: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) 2011. 617-620
• TIM COUGHLAN, ANNE ADAMS, YVONNE ROGERS and SARAH JANE DAVIES, 2011. Enabling Live Dialogic and Collaborative Learning between Field and Indoor Contexts In: 25th British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction.
• CHRISTOPHER P. MIDDUP, TIM COUGHLAN and PETER JOHNSON, 2010. How Creative Groups Structure Tasks through Negotiating Resources In: 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems (COOP 2010). 203-222
• TIM COUGHLAN and PETER JOHNSON, 2009. Designing Personal Information Management Systems for Creative Practitioners Journal of Digital Information. 10(5),
• TIM COUGHLAN and PETER JOHNSON, 2009. Understanding Productive, Structural and Longitudinal Interactions in the Design of Tools for Creative Activities In: Seventh ACM conference on Creativity and cognition. 155-164
• TIM COUGHLAN and PETER JOHNSON, 2008. An Exploration of Constraints and End User Development in Environments for Creative Tasks International Journal of Human Computer Interaction. 24(5), 444-459
• TIM COUGHLAN and PETER JOHNSON, 2008. Idea Management in Creative Lives In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 3081-3086
• HILARY JOHNSON, PETER JOHNSON and TIM COUGHLAN, 2008. Understanding and Supporting Group Creativity Within Design. In: TOM INNS, ed., Designing for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Questions and Insights Gower Publishing.
• TIM COUGHLAN and PETER JOHNSON, 2008. Personal Information Management for Creative Practitioners In: Personal Information Management: PIM 2008. A CHI 2008 Workshop.
• TIM COUGHLAN and PETER JOHNSON, 2006. Interaction in Creative Tasks: Ideation, Representation and Evaluation in Composition In: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). 531-540