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Overview

Alan F. Blackwell is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom and specializes in the field of Computer Science. Their research spans various subfields including Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, and Information Systems.

The main topics covered in their work include:

  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • Data Visualization and Analytics
  • ICT in Developing Communities
  • Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
  • Usability and User Interface Design
  • Embodied and Extended Cognition
  • Innovative Approaches in Technology and Social Development

Alan F. Blackwell has published extensively, contributing to a variety of journals and venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
  • CL Technical Reports
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Virtual Reality
  • Interacting with Computers

Recent publications demonstrate a focus on interdisciplinary approaches and the societal dimensions of technology. Selected papers include:

  • "Radical innovation: crossing knowledge boundaries with interdisciplinary teams" (2021), CL Technical Reports
  • "Ethnographic artificial intelligence" (2021), Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
  • "Understanding Meaningful Participation and the Situated Use of Technology in Community Music for Active Ageing" (2020), Interacting with Computers
  • "Inventing Artificial Intelligence in Ethiopia" (2021), Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
  • "The patterns of user experience for sticky-note diagrams in software requirements workshops" (2020), Journal of Computer Languages

Alan F. Blackwell has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including E Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, Thor Magnusson, and Luke Church, each having multiple joint publications.

In addition to journal articles, the scientist has contributed to book publications. Notable titles include "Live Coding" published by The MIT Press in 2022, and "Live Coding: A User's Manual" published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research in the same year.

Best Publications

  • Password memorability and security: empirical results

    J. Yan;A. Blackwell;R. Anderson;A. Grant

  • The state of the art in end-user software engineering

    Amy J. Ko;Robin Abraham;Laura Beckwith;Alan Blackwell

  • Dasher—a data entry interface using continuous gestures and language models

    David J. Ward;Alan F. Blackwell;David J. C. MacKay

  • Graphic elicitation: using research diagrams as interview stimuli

    Nathan Crilly;Alan F. Blackwell;P. John Clarkson

  • The reification of metaphor as a design tool

    Alan F. Blackwell

  • First steps in programming: a rationale for attention investment models

    A.F. Blackwell

  • CHAPTER 5 – Notational Systems—The Cognitive Dimensions of Notations Framework

    Alan Blackwell

  • Performance Optimization of Virtual Keyboards

    Shumin Zhai;Michael A. Hunter;Barton A. Smith

  • Intelligent backward resource navigation

    Natasa Milic-Frayling;Samuel Gavin Smyth;Kerry Rodden;Ralph Sommerer

  • Diagrammatic Representation and Inference

    Kim Marriott;Atsushi Shimojima;Alan Blackwell

  • Cognitive Dimensions of Notations: Design Tools for Cognitive Technology

    Alan F. Blackwell;Carol Britton;Anna Louise Cox;Thomas R. G. Green

  • A user-centred approach to functions in Excel

    Simon Peyton Jones;Alan Blackwell;Margaret Burnett

  • Tinkering and gender in end-user programmers' debugging

    Laura Beckwith;Cory Kissinger;Margaret Burnett;Susan Wiedenbeck

  • I did that! Measuring users' experience of agency in their own actions

    David Coyle;James Moore;Per Ola Kristensson;Paul Fletcher

  • A Cognitive Dimensions questionnaire optimised for users.

    Alan F. Blackwell;Thomas R. G. Green

  • Using Augmented Reality to Elicit Pretend Play for Children with Autism

    Zhen Bai;Alan F. Blackwell;George Coulouris

  • The memorability and security of passwords – some empirical results

    Jianxin Yan;Alan Blackwell;Ross Anderson;Alasdair Grant

  • Interacting with mobile services: an evaluation of camera-phones and visual tags

    Eleanor Toye;Richard Sharp;Anil Madhavapeddy;David Scott

  • The Programming Language as a Musical Instrument

    Alan F. Blackwell;Nick Collins

  • Cognitive Dimensions of Information Artefacts: a tutorial

    Thomas Green;Alan Blackwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Charith Perera
Charith Perera Cardiff University
Margaret Burnett
Margaret Burnett Oregon State University
Marian Petre
Marian Petre The Open University
Martin J. Eppler
Martin J. Eppler University of St. Gallen
Claudia Eckert
Claudia Eckert The Open University
Gennady Andrienko
Gennady Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems
Jason Dykes
Jason Dykes City, University of London
Jean-Daniel Fekete
Jean-Daniel Fekete French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation - INRIA
Natalia Andrienko
Natalia Andrienko Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems

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