Duncan Brumby from UCL will give a guest talk to the lab.
In this talk, I'll focus on three contexts in which people regularly multitask while using computers: driving a car, sat on the sofa at home, and doing work tasks. Across these contexts, I shall describe how we have used different research methods and approaches to understand how people multitask: from cognitive modelling, to control lab experiments, to situated observational studies, and online studies with crowdsourcing platforms. This research helps us understand why some people are better at multitasking than others, and how systems can be designed to help us focus our attention when we need to.
Duncan Brumby is a Reader at University College London (UCL), where he directs the MSc HCI programme. He received a PhD in Psychology from Cardiff University in 2005, before doing a two year post-doc in Computer Science at Drexel University. He has published 17 journal articles and more than 40 peer-reviewed conference papers (incl. 12 CHI Papers/Notes). This research has been supported by grants from the the EPSRC, EIT, and EC. He is Deputy Editor-in-Chief at the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and will be a Subcommittee Chair for “Understand People” at CHI 2018. Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=C5eTGe8AAAAJ&hl=en.
University of Nottingham School of Computer Science Nottingham, NG8 1BB
email: mrl@cs.nott.ac.uk