I am a researcher at the London Knowledge Lab (Institute of Education), where I am working on problems in visualization, physical computing, and design. Currenty, my work is on the Learning Design Support Environment, a user-centred sysytem to help teachers design and plan learning activities.

I’m also a Senior Interaction Designer at Tinker.it! where we focus on bridging the digital and physical worlds with interactive technology.

I’ve worked on a range of consulting projects in both User Experience and Information Design/Analysis. See Publications & Work for a list of clients and projects.

PREVIOUS WORK:
In 2007, I completed PhD research at UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC) in the area of Information Visualization Design methodology. My design method is called SoViz and is aimed at supporting software visualization design through collaboration and sketching. This is outlined in my doctoral dissertation, which you can view as a Flash document here. For a .pdf version (5.7 Mb), or if you are interested in visualization design, please contact me.

I was also a Research Assistant on the CLinical E-science Framework (CLEF), where completed usability research on the design of a system which will support research using anonymized healthcare records.

I received the “People’s Choice” award from the UCL Graduate School Research Images as Art competition for images that were produced in the course of my research in Information Visualization. Here are the winning images from 2006 and 2007. These were produced with software called Context Free and Processing.

Contact Info

Email:
thatbrock[at]gmail.com

Telephone:
From the USA, you’ll need to dial for international access.
Dial 011+44 and ignore the leading 0 in the numbers below.

Mobile: (0) 77 2594 0097
Office: (0) 20 7763 2166

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