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      Dr Bob Fields

      ROLE: Associate Professor
      SCHOOL: Science & Technology
      DEPARTMENT: Computer Science
      TELEPHONE: +44 (0)20 8411 2272
      EMAIL: B.Fields@mdx.ac.uk
      1. Biography &
        Qualifications
      2. Learning &
        Teaching Interests
      3. Research Outputs &
        Interests
      4. Funded Research &
        Knowledge Exchange Projects
      5. Engagement &
        Impact

      • Biography &
        Qualifications

        Positions:

        • Reader
        • Course Leader - MSc Interaction Design

        Personal Web Page:

        http://www.cs.mdx.ac.uk/staffpages/bobf/

        Publications:

        • Stelmaszewska, H., Fields, B., & Blandford, A. (2004), Conceptualising user hedonic experience. In Proc. ECCE 2004 (in press).
        • Wright, P., Fields, R., and Harrison, M., (2000), Analyzing Human-Computer Interaction as Distributed Cognition: the Resources Model, Human Computer Interaction Journal 15(1):1-42.
        • Wright, P., Dearden, A., and Fields, R., (2000), Function Allocation: a Perspective From Studies of Work Practice, International Journal on Human-Computer Studies. 52(2):335-355.
        • Fields, R., and Wright, P., (2000), Understanding Work and Designing Artefacts: Editorial, International Journal on Human-Computer Studies. 53(1):1-4.
        • Fields, R., Paternò, F., Santoro, C., and Tahmassebi, S., (1999), Comparing Design Options for Allocating Communication Media in Cooperative Safety-Critical Contexts: a Method and a Case Study, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. 6(4): 370-398.

        Languages Spoken

      • Learning &
        Teaching Interests

        • CMT3082 - Developing Enterprise Systems (Module Leader)

      • Research Outputs &
        Interests

        His research in HCI focuses mainly on the distributed cognition approaches to understanding human-machine collaboration, and the application of such approaches to the design and evaluation of interactive technology in areas as diverse as digital libraries and aircraft flight decks.

        Research Supervision:

        Director of Studies

        • George Buchanan: User Tools for Digital Libraries (PhD awarded 2004)
        • Veronica Davis Perkins: Imaging the past: methodologies, effects, and issues arising from digitising historic photograph collections
        • John Salisbury: What constitutes an engaging interactive experience?
        • Nallini Selvaraj: Collaborative Decision Making in Complex Safety Critical Systems: A Common Information Space Approach
        • Hanna Stelmasewska: New usability: evaluating user experience

        Second Supervisor

        • Jainaba Jagne: Integrating cultural and social factors of the shopping metaphor, in the context of indigenous users, into eCommerce interface design
        • Ming Nie: Cultural issues in IT project management
        • Saif ur Rehman: Virtual reality laparoscopic surgery simulations

        Publication Feed

        Patterns and motivations for method choices in suicidal thoughts and behaviour: qualitative content analysis of a large online survey

        Marzano, Lisa and Katsampa, Dafni and Mackenzie, Jay-Marie and Kruger, A. Ian and El-Gharbawi, Nazli and Ffolkes-St-Helene, Denika and Mohiddin, Hafswa and Fields, Bob (2021) Patterns and motivations for method choices in suicidal thoughts and behaviour: qualitative content analysis of a large online survey. BJPsych Open , 7 (2). pp. 1-6. ISSN 2056-4724

        Factors deterring and prompting the decision to attempt suicide on the railway networks: findings from 353 online surveys and 34 semi-structured interviews

        Marzano, Lisa and Mackenzie, Jay-Marie and Kruger, A. Ian and Borrill, Jo and Fields, Bob (2019) Factors deterring and prompting the decision to attempt suicide on the railway networks: findings from 353 online surveys and 34 semi-structured interviews. British Journal of Psychiatry , 215 (4). pp. 582-587. ISSN 0007-1250

        An approach to human-machine teaming in legal investigations using anchored narrative visualisation and machine learning

        Attfield, Simon and Fields, Bob and Windridge, David and Xu, Kai (2019) An approach to human-machine teaming in legal investigations using anchored narrative visualisation and machine learning. In: First International Workshop on AI and Intelligent Assistance for Legal Professionals in the Digital Workplace (LegalAIIA 2019)., 17 Jun 2019, Montreal, Canada.

        A resources model for distributed sensemaking

        Attfield, Simon and Fields, Bob and Baber, Chris (2018) A resources model for distributed sensemaking. Cognition, Technology and Work , 20 (4). pp. 651-664. ISSN 1435-5558

        MIRTO: an open-source robotic platform for education

        Androutsopoulos, Kelly and Aristodemou, Leonidas and Boender, Jaap and Bottone, Michele and Currie, Edward and El-Aroussi, Inas and Fields, Bob and Gheri, Lorenzo and Gorogiannis, Nikos and Heeney, Michael and Micheletti, Matteo and Loomes, Martin J. and Margolis, Michael and Petridis, Miltos and Piermarteri, Andrea and Primiero, Giuseppe and Raimondi, Franco and Weldin, Nick (2018) MIRTO: an open-source robotic platform for education. In: 3rd European Conference on Software Engineering Education, 14-15 June 2018, Seeon, Germany.

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