People
The e-sense project brings together researchers from a range of disciplines: HCI; philosophy; computing (ubiquitous, physical and music); psychology; and art.
Some of the e-sense team (left to right): Andy Clark, Jon Bird, Yvonne Rogers, Paul Marshall and Simon Holland.
Yvonne Rogers
Yvonne is the Principal Investigator of the e-sense project and directs the Pervasive Interaction Lab. She is a professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Computing Department at the Open University. She is also a visiting professor of Informatics and Information Science at Indiana University in the US. She worked for over 10 years in the interdisciplinary school of COGS at the University of Sussex and has also spent time working at Apple, Stanford University, University California San Diego, and the University of Queensland. Her research is concerned with how to augment and extend everyday, learning and work activities using a diversity of technologies.
Andy Clark
Andy has held the Chair in Logic and Metaphysics at the University of Edinburgh since 2004. Prior to that he taught at the universities of Glasgow, Sussex, Washington (St Louis), where he was Director of the Philosophy/Neuroscience/Psychology Program, and Indiana. His research interests range across philosophy of mind, artificial intelligence, artificial life, embodied cognition, and mind, technology and culture. Some of his papers are available to download here.
Jon Bird
Jon is the research fellow on the e-sense project and his role is to design and build the vibrotactile interfaces and software. He has a DPhil in artificial life from the University of Sussex and specialises in interdisciplinary research. He previously worked on the Drawbots project at Sussex with computer scientist Phil Husbands, philosopher Maggie Boden and artist Paul Brown. This research used evolutionary robotics to investigate creativity.
Paul Marshall
Paul is a research fellow in the Pervasive Interaction Lab at the Open University. His research interests centre on the use of novel interfaces and representations for learning and working. Prior to joining the Open University, Paul completed a PhD which investigated the use of tangible interfaces for learning. This research was part of the Equator project in the Interact Lab at the University of Sussex.
Simon Holland
Simon is a co-investigator in the e-sense project and is director and founder of the Music Computing Lab. He is a Senior Lecturer in the Computing Department at the Open University. He has a background in artificial intelligence, psychology, mathematics, music, learning technology, and foundations of programming. His principal research areas are pervasive interaction and music computing. As part of this work, he has devised various novel human-centred computing techniques and systems including Harmony Space, the Haptic Drum Kit, the Audio GPS, and Direct Combination.
Some of the researchers working on the MusicJacket project (left to right): Erwin Schoonderwaldt, Janet van der Linden and Rose Johnson.
Janet van der Linden
Janet is a senior lecturer in the Computing Department at the Open University. With a background in the social sciences, artificial intelligence and Java programming, she is interested in interdisciplinary research. The focus of her research is on music and pervasive computing, with an emphasis on musicians’ posture. In the MusicJacket project she is working on technologies that support the teaching and learning of musical instruments, with the aim of making the player more aware of healthy habits at an early age.
Erwin Schoonderwaldt
Erwin recently completed a PhD (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) that investigated violin playing, in particular: bow-string interaction; the physics of the bow; and bow control by the player. As part of this research he used optical motion capture technologies and developed visualisation techniques. He has been involved in research projects that developed software for music education.
Rose Johnson
Rose is a PhD student working on the MusicJacket project. She has an MPhys in Theoretical Physics (Swansea University). She has been playing the violin since she was 8 years old. She is also an experienced solo and choral singer and has taught in choirs using call and response methods. Her research focuses on how technologies can support novice musicians and their teachers.
Visitors
Susanna Hertrich
Susanna is a designer, artist and researcher. For the past ten years, she worked in academic, artistic, research and commercial environments. Her work explores how novel technologies could impact on individuals and society. Currently, her work is centered around the idea of the body as interface and the potential of extrasensory devices to act as prostheses for missing human instincts.
Danielle Wilde
Danielle is an artist and design researcher based at Monash University Faculty of Art and Design (Melbourne, Australia) and the CSIRO Division of Materials Science and Engineering (Belmont, near Geelong). She is undertaking practice-based doctoral research, investigating how interactive technology in, on and around the body might be used to poeticise experience. Wilde’s research sits at the nexus of performance, fashion, fine art, critical (technology) and interaction design.