About
Senior Creative Technologist / Experimental psychologist. I builds things.
I’m an Associate Professor at Royal Holloway, University of London, in Media Arts, and Senior Creative Technologist with CoSTAR and StoryFutures (my papers). I lead on inclusive and multisensory audience research, supervise eight PhD students, and line-manage a small technical team.
I started as an experimental psychologist. My PhD (Trinity College Dublin, 2004) was on multisensory perception – how the senses interact. That work carried on through Unilever R&D and Oxford’s Crossmodal Lab.
I love building things. Ten years of Django in production, via 3 startups. Raspberry Pi and Arduino when a question needs hardware. Six years of 3D printing. Computer vision on microboards because that’s the future!
Currently interested in: AI-assisted coding and what it does to the skill underneath it – I’m running a longitudinal study on exactly that at canistillcode.org. Also accessible research methods, and how much of a lab you can move into a browser tab.