Alan Chamberlain

Contact

• workRoom Mixed Reality Lab Computer Science
  Jubilee Campus
  Wollaton Road
  Nottingham
  NG8 1BB
  UK
• work0115 8466534
• fax0115 9514254
• alan.chamberlain@nottingham.ac.uk
• http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/people/101-dr-alan-chamberlain.html

Biography

Description

Dr Alan Chamberlain is currently a Senior Research Fellow in the Mixed Reality Lab at Nottingham. He has published numerous papers on many aspects of Human Computer Interaction and has successfully obtained funding for research projects. He is currently interested in the development of systems in real world settings (Research in the Wild) . His main research interests are listed below. Academia.edu profile

Expertise Summary

His research interests relate to real-world problems as articulated by various communities of practice and relate to Human Computer Interaction, Ethnography, Action Research, Participatory Design, Rural Aspects of Computing, and User Engagement in order to develop networks of people that are able to involve themselves in the practices of innovation and design.

Research Summary

Current Projects

Bridging the Urban Rural Divide (BURD) - Scaling the Rural Enterprise, Co-investigator (Researcher), 2011 - 2014. Value £1,773,310 (full cost) (5 Million awarded to Nottingham).

Bridging the Rural Divide· - EPSRC EP/I001816/1, Recognised Researcher (Named), 2010 - 2012. Value £935,000 (full cost).

Recent Publications

• CHAMBERLAIN, A., MARTÍNEZ-REYES, F., JACOBS, R., WATKINS, M. and SHACKFORD, R., 2013. Them and Us: an indoor pervasive gaming experience Entertainment Computing. 4(1), 1-9
• CHAMBERLAIN, ALAN, CRABTREE, ANDY, DAVIES, MARK, GREENHALGH, CHRIS, VALCHOVSKA, STELA, RODDEN, TOM and GLOVER, KEVIN, 2012. Fresh and local: the rural produce market as a site for co-design, ubiquitous technological intervention and digital-economic development In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. 37:1-37:4
• CHAMBERLAIN, ALAN, CRABTREE, ANDY, RODDEN, TOM, JONES, MATT and ROGERS, YVONNE, 2012. Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development In: Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 795-796
• CHAMBERLAIN, A., OPPERMANN, L., FLINTHAM, M., BENFORD, S., TOLMIE, P., ADAMS, M., FARR, J.R., TANDAVANITJ, N., MARSHALL, J. and RODDEN, T., 2011. Locating experience: touring a pervasive performance Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 15(7), 717-730

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Past Research

Lead Proposer

Convergence: Interdisciplinary Interpretations of People, Place and Pervasive Media, Troubadour Award (PI), Awarded from the grant: EPSRC Reference: EP/H024867/1 - Towards Pervasive Media

Performative Aspects of Pervasive Computing (PI) - Awarded from the grant: EPSRC Reference: EP/F013442/1 - UBICOMP Grand Challenge Award

Nano Histories (PI) - Awarded from the grant EPSRC Reference: EP/E018580 - Bridging the Gaps between Mathematics, ICT and Engineering

Rural Ubiquitous Computing(PI) - Awarded from the grant: EPSRC Reference: EP/F03038X/1 - The Challenge of Widespread Ubiquitous Computing

Co-Written/Named

Riders Have Spoken: Designing and Evaluating an Archive for Replaying Interactive Performances - AHRC "Beyond Text Programme" Recognised Researcher (Named), 2010 - 2011. Value £12877.56 (full cost)

Research Council Involvement

2010 Bridging the Urban Rural Divide (RCUK/EPSRC) - Funding/Future Direction Workshop (Selected Member) Birmingham UK

2011 Early Career Meeting (EPSRC) Nottingham UK

• CHAMBERLAIN, A., MARTÍNEZ-REYES, F., JACOBS, R., WATKINS, M. and SHACKFORD, R., 2013. Them and Us: an indoor pervasive gaming experience Entertainment Computing. 4(1), 1-9
• CHAMBERLAIN, ALAN, CRABTREE, ANDY, DAVIES, MARK, GREENHALGH, CHRIS, VALCHOVSKA, STELA, RODDEN, TOM and GLOVER, KEVIN, 2012. Fresh and local: the rural produce market as a site for co-design, ubiquitous technological intervention and digital-economic development In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. 37:1-37:4
• CHAMBERLAIN, ALAN, CRABTREE, ANDY, RODDEN, TOM, JONES, MATT and ROGERS, YVONNE, 2012. Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development In: Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference. 795-796
• CHAMBERLAIN, A., OPPERMANN, L., FLINTHAM, M., BENFORD, S., TOLMIE, P., ADAMS, M., FARR, J.R., TANDAVANITJ, N., MARSHALL, J. and RODDEN, T., 2011. Locating experience: touring a pervasive performance Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 15(7), 717-730
• ROWLAND, DUNCAN, PORTER, DAN, GIBSON, MEL, WALKER, KEVIN, UNDERWOOD, JOSHUA, LUCKIN, ROSE, SMITH, HILARY, FITZPATRICK, GERALDINE, GOOD, JUDITH, WALKER, BRENDAN, CHAMBERLAIN, ALAN, RENNICK EGGLESTONE, STEFAN, MARSHALL, JOE, SCHN`ADELBACH, HOLGER and BENFORD, STEVE, 2010. Sequential art for science and CHI In: Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems. 2651-2660
• FOSTER, J., BENFORD, S., CHAMBERLAIN, A., ROWLAND, D. and GIANNACHI, G., 2010. Riders have spoken: a practice-based approach to developing an information architecture for the archiving and replay of a mixed reality performance International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media. 6(2), 209-223
• ROWLAND, D., FLINTHAM, M., OPPERMANN, L., MARSHALL, J., CHAMBERLAIN, A., KOLEVA, B., BENFORD, S. and PEREZ, C., 2009. Ubikequitous computing: designing interactive experiences for cyclists In: MobileHCI '09: proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services.
• KANJO, E., BENFORD, S., PAXTON, M., CHAMBERLAIN, A., FRASER, D.S., WOODGATE, D., CRELLIN, D. and WOOLARD, A., 2008. MobGeoSen: facilitating personal geosensor data collection and visualization using mobile phones Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. 12(8), 599-607
• CHAMBERLAIN, ALAN, BENFORD, STEVE, GREENHALGH, CHRIS, HAMPSHIRE, ALASTAIR, TANDAVANITJ, NICK, ADAMS, MATT, OLDROYD, AMANDA and SUTTON, JON, 2007. Professor Tanda: greener gaming & pervasive play In: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Designing for User eXperiences. 26:1-26:16
• ADAMCZYK, PIOTR, HAMILTON, KEVIN, CHAMBERLAIN, ALAN, BENFORD, STEVE, TANDAVANITJ, NICK, OLDROYD, AMANDA, HARTMAN, KATE, LONDON, KATI, SRISKANDARAJAH, SAI, KANJO, EIMAN, LANSHOFF, PETER, SEZAKI, KAORU, KONOMI, SHIN`ICHI, NIAZI, MUAZ A., AHMAD, HAFIZ F., MIRZA, FAUZAN, ALI, ARSHAD, ROUSSOS, GEORGE, PAPADOGKONAS, DIKAIOS and LEVENE, MARK, 2007. Urban Computing and Mobile Devices IEEE Distributed Systems Online. 8, 2-