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Overview

David Kirk is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the intersections of social sciences and computer science, with a specific focus on human-computer interaction, education, and museology.

Their published work includes topics such as:

  • Museums and Cultural Heritage
  • Innovative Human-Technology Interaction
  • 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
  • Education and Technology Integration
  • Collaborative Teaching and Inclusion
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems

David Kirk's recent papers cover a range of themes and venues, including:

  • Human-GDPR Interaction: Practical Experiences of Accessing Personal Data (2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
  • Participatory Design Goes to School: Co-Teaching as a Form of Co-Design for Educational Technology (2022, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems)
  • Supporting a Healthier Takeaway Meal Choice: Creating a Universal Health Rating for Online Takeaway Fast-Food Outlets (2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health)
  • Colliding epistemologies, productive tensions and usable pasts in the generation of heritage-led immersive experiences (2020, International Journal of Heritage Studies)
  • Memoryscapes: Designing Situated Narratives of Place through Heritage Collections (2021, International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction)

The most frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Designing Interactive Systems Conference
  • CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
  • Multimodal Technologies and Interaction

David Kirk has collaborated regularly with several researchers, with frequent coauthors including:

  • Kay Rogage
  • James Charlton
  • Claire Nally
  • Jon Swords
  • Richard Watson

The combination of their work reflects a cross-disciplinary approach to issues in technology integration within education and cultural contexts, as well as innovative methodologies in human-technology interaction and heritage studies.

Best Publications

  • Savannah: mobile gaming and learning?

    Keri Facer;Richard W. Joiner;Danae Stanton;Josephine Reid

  • Understanding photowork

    David Kirk;Abigail Sellen;Carsten Rother;Ken Wood

  • Bringing physics to the surface

    Andrew D. Wilson;Shahram Izadi;Otmar Hilliges;Armando Garcia-Mendoza

  • On human remains: Values and practice in the home archiving of cherished objects

    David S. Kirk;Abigail Sellen

  • Physics simulation-based interaction for surface computing

    Andrew David Wilson;Shahram Izadi;Armando Garcia-Mendoza;David Kirk

  • On Speculative Enactments

    Chris Elsden;David Chatting;Abigail C. Durrant;Andrew Garbett

  • Designing for slowness, anticipation and re-visitation: a long term field study of the photobox

    William T. Odom;Abigail J. Sellen;Richard Banks;David S. Kirk

  • Home video communication: mediating 'closeness'

    David S. Kirk;Abigail Sellen;Xiang Cao

  • Now let me see where i was: understanding how lifelogs mediate memory

    Vaiva Kalnikaite;Abigail Sellen;Steve Whittaker;David Kirk

  • Technology heirlooms?: considerations for passing down and inheriting digital materials

    William Odom;Richard Banks;David Kirk;Richard Harper

  • Affordances for manipulation of physical versus digital media on interactive surfaces

    Lucia Terrenghi;David Kirk;Abigail Sellen;Shahram Izadi

  • Passing on & putting to rest: understanding bereavement in the context of interactive technologies

    William Odom;Richard Harper;Abigail Sellen;David Kirk

  • Comparing remote gesture technologies for supporting collaborative physical tasks

    David Kirk;Danae Stanton Fraser

  • Turn it this way: grounding collaborative action with remote gestures

    David Kirk;Tom Rodden;Danaë Stanton Fraser

  • Ways of the hands

    David Kirk;Andy Crabtree;Tom Rodden

  • A Quantified Past: Toward Design for Remembering With Personal Informatics

    Chris Elsden;David S. Kirk;Abigail C. Durrant

  • Slow technology: critical reflection and future directions

    William Odom;Richard Banks;Abigail Durrant;David Kirk

  • Graspables revisited: multi-touch vs. tangible input for tabletop displays in acquisition and manipulation tasks

    Philip Tuddenham;David Kirk;Shahram Izadi

  • Understanding videowork

    David Kirk;Abigail Sellen;Richard Harper;Ken Wood

  • Matters of life and death: locating the end of life in lifespan-oriented hci research

    Michael Massimi;William Odom;Richard Banks;David Kirk

Frequent Co-Authors

Abigail Sellen
Abigail Sellen Microsoft (United States)
Richard Banks
Richard Banks Microsoft (United States)
Peter Wright
Peter Wright Newcastle University
William Odom
William Odom Simon Fraser University
Shahram Izadi
Shahram Izadi Google (United States)
Steve Benford
Steve Benford University of Nottingham
Otmar Hilliges
Otmar Hilliges ETH Zurich
Richard Harper
Richard Harper Social Shaping Research
Elizabeth F. Churchill
Elizabeth F. Churchill Google (United States)
John Vines
John Vines Northumbria University

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