Mixed Reality Lab Visiting Researcher Lecture

Speaker:
Nicola Bidwell
Principal Researcher at CSIR-Meraka and Associate Professor
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
South Africa

Nicola Bidwell is a Principal Researcher at CSIR-Meraka and Associate Professor affiliated with Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa. Since 2003 her research has focused on designing interactions with technologies for rural settings and Indigenous and African cultural contexts. She applies situated, ethnographic and participatory methods and usually lives rurally – for the past few years in a geographically remote African village. Most of Nicola’s 90 peer-reviewed publications relate to designing interactions with mobile devices, information systems and simulated environments that suit the needs of inhabitants of, and visitors to, rural and often impoverished places. In this lecture Nic will talk about walking and its link to designing for oral and acoustic community in rural Africa.

Please see further information regarding Nicola Bidwell and her work.