Senior Faculty
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Dr Mick Donegan
Dr Mick Donegan is the Principal Research Fellow in Multimodal Interfaces, and the head of a new research group on Interfaces for Assistive Technology & Creativity at the SMARTlab. He has been working closely with James Brosnan, Lizbeth Goodman, Toby Borland and the London and Dublin INTERFACE teams to investigate the most appropriate, functional and aesthetically/emotionally empowering communication forms with and for people with disabilities. |
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Professor Lizbeth Goodman
Professor Lizbeth Goodman joined UEL as the new Chair of Creative Technology Innovation in 2005. She is also Founder and Director of the SMARTlab Digital Media Institute and the MAGIC Multimedia & Games Innovation Centre, Gamelab and PLAYroom. An active researcher and community technology advocate, she has published and presented widely. She was awarded a Microsoft Community Affairs Senior Research Fellowship for development of SMARTclubs for disdvantaged youth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (2--6-9). She received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Volunteer Service to Women and Children in 2003, and was shortlisted and commended for a Times Higher Award in 2007. She was recently named the Best Woman In Technology (Public Sector and Academia) and BlackBerry Outstanding Woman in Technology by the
corporate and government lead bodies judging the Blackberry Women and Technology Awards for 2008. |
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Dr Leslie Hill
Leslie is the Principal Researcher in Performance Technologies with SMARTlab, and our co—Director of Studies for the Practice-based PhD Progamme. She is also Director of Curious. Curious was formed in 1996 and has produced over 30 projects, which have been shown and exhibited widely by such venues as the Sydney Opera House, the British Council Showcase at the Edinburgh Festival and Artist Links, Shanghai. Company directors Leslie Hill and Helen Paris are artists working in performance, video and film, known for their edgy, humorous interrogations of contemporary culture and politics, work which has been called ‘as smart as it is seductive’. |
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Dr Susan Kozel
Susan is the Principal Researcher in Human Movement and Technology, due to join the Senior Faculty in a more substantial iteration in 2007, and currently beginning her formal work with the new SMARTlab at UEL as a PhD supervisor and project collaborator. |
Post Doctoral Research Fellows
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Dr Deveril
Deveril is a facilitator, filmmaker and writer. He holds a PhD in Dance from the University of Surrey. In 2003 he co-directed with Litza Bixler the short dance film Heart Thief for Channel 4, while researching Decentering the Dancing Text at University of Surrey. Deveril’s background includes live and mediated performance work with Stacked Wonky, Redroom, Dead Earnest (“one of the best pieces of mime I have ever seen” Review of Deveril in The Nest, in The Stage, 12 June 1997) and as an independent and collaborative artist.
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Dr Christopher Hales
Christopher took his MA in Interactive Design from the Royal College of Art and began his PhD studies there. He transferred to work with Dr Lizbeth Goodman at UEL a year ago, in order to bring a deeper appreciation of the interactive film as independent genre worthy of its own 'generic status' and analysis, both theoretical and practical.
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Dr Anthony Hornof
Anthony Hornof is a computer scientist whose career aspirations after graduating from college were to be a nightclub deejay and a fine artist. He actually deejayed a bit at popular New York City discos in the 1980s. He then learned that he could combine his interests in both science and the humanities by studying human-computer interaction (HCI). |
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Dr Esther MacCallum-Stewart
Esther MacCallum-Stewart is a Post-Doc Research Fellow at SMARTlab, joining the Microsoft Community Affairs funded project on IT for Development, as sub-editor and research associate for related publications in this domain. Her work beyond this project investigates digital narratives, in particular the relationship between history and popular cultural representations through games, online resources and interactive media. |
Research Fellows
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Camille Baker is conducting research, funded through our BBC project on Games for Thought/Somatics and Movement Studies. She joins the team in this official capacity in Feb. 2006. Also a PHD Candidate with the SMARTlab. |
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James Brosnan is the SMARTlab’s Associate Research Fellow in Assistive Technology Innovation. He has worked with us on the Trust Project, StreetscalledHome, Guinevere’s Globe, Fellicean, and a number of major externally funded projects since 2003. |
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Kasia Molga is a multidisciplinary artist and designer researching digital interactivity, collaboration and participation as methods of expression in visual arts forms. As a research fellow of Smart Lab she focuses on the issue of personal human presence in context new digital and communication mobile technology. |
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Suzanne Stein leads the Mobile Platform Games Research Group for SMARTlab, and co-supervises the PhD cohort working on Accessible Technology and Personal/Community Fabrication (within Peoplelab). She has been a core member of the new technology division, Habitat, at the Canadian Film Centre, since its inception in 1997. She is currently faculty member and module leader for interactive media and narrative theory in their training programme and is a co-mentor for the Interactive project lab that runs across Canada, guiding and nurturing innovative technology projects for market launch. |
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Jeremi Sudol has designed interaction system, sensors and switches for the SMARTlab TRUST and MINDtouch projects for the past five years. He is interested in developing technologies that celebrate the human spirit, and has been involved in a variety of projects in active technologies, experimental human-user interfaces, performing and visual arts, and
artificial intelligence. |
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