brock craft

Publications

2008
(to be published) CRAFT & CAIRNS, “Directions for Methodological Research in Information Visualization” Proceedings of the 12th Annual International Conference on Information Visualisation, London, 8-11 July, 2008.

FAISAL, CRAFT, CAIRNS, & BLANDFORD, “Internalization, Qualitative Methods, and Evaluation” In BELIV’08 BEyond time and errors: novel evaLuation methods for Information Visualization. A Workshop of the ACM CHI 2008 Conference. April 5, 2008 - Florence, Italy. DOWNLOAD PDF (440K)

2007
CRAFT & GAYDOS, “Toward an Understanding of the Aesthetic Experience of Information Visualisation”. Poster Session: Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Information Visualisation, Zurich, Switzerland. 2-6 July 2007.

2006
CRAFT & CAIRNS, “Using Sketching to Aid the Collaborative Design of Information Visualisation Software - A Case Study” , HWID ‘06 Human Work Interaction Design: DESIGNING FOR HUMAN WORK, Madeira, Portugal 13-15 Feb. 2006.
DOWNLOAD PDF(822 k)

2005
FAISAL, CAIRNS, & CRAFT, “InfoViz Experience Enhancement Through Mediated Interaction”, ICMI’05 Workshop on Multimodal Interaction for the Visualisation and Exploration of Scientific Data, Trento, Italy. 3 September, 2005.
DOWNLOAD PDF(228 k)

CHAWDA, CRAFT, CAIRNS, RUGER, & HEESCH, “Do Attractive Things Work Better? An Exploration of Search Tool Visualisations”, 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference, Napier University, Edinburgh, UK. 5-9 September 2005.
DOWNLOAD PDF (66 k)

CRAFT & CAIRNS, “Beyond Guidelines: What Can We Learn from the Visual Information Seeking Mantra?”, 9th Annual International Conference on Information Visualisation, Greenwich, UK. 6-8 July 2005.
DOWNLOAD PDF (117k)

2004
ATTFIELD, BLANDFORD, & CRAFT, “Task Embedded Visualisation: The Design for an Interactive IR Results Display for Journalists.”, Proc. Information Visualisation 2004. (HCI Symposium).

SPENCE, WITKOWSKI, FAWCETT, CRAFT, DeBRUIN “Image Presentation in Space and Time: Errors, Preferences and Eye-gaze activity”, Advanced Visual Interfaces 2004, Gallipoli, Italy. May 25-28, 2004.
DOWNLOAD PDF (253K)

2000
B. CRAFT, D. Hinkle, E. Sedgwick, K.Alkoby, M.J. Davidson, R., J. Christopher, J. Furst, B. Konie, G. Lancaster, S. Luecking, A. Morris, J. McDonald, N. Tomuro, J. Toro, R. Wolfe. “An Approach To Modeling Facial Expressions Used In American Sign Language.” Presented at the 2000 DePaul CTI Research Conference, Chicago, IL. November 4, 2000.

Consultancy (UX and Visualization)

03/2004 - UCL Department of Epidemiology – Visualization of clinical trials results data for a major pharmaceutical company
08/2003 - EMCOR Group – Data Visualization of Automatic Teller locations
03/2002 - Tek2001 – Construction Project timeline Visualization
07/2002 - BTENA – Database architecture for construction project
10/1999 - Johnson Controls – Strategic Research Project
05/1999 - Honeywell Inc. – Strategic Research Project
03/1999 - Honeywell Inc. – Construction Project Labour timeline Visualization

Invited Talks and Seminars

“Investigating Technology Design With Qualitative Research Methods” Open University ‘Practitioner research into aspects of teaching and learning’ (PRATLe) Series, 28 February 2008.

“Sketching and Design for the User Experience”, UCL Human Centred Systems Group, 27 February 2008.

“Sketching the User Interface”, Imperial College London, 26 November 2007.

“Computer Generated Art with Context-Free Grammars”, London Knowledge Lab, 9 October 2007.

“Using Sketching to Support Visualisation Design”, UCL Interaction Center, 18 December 2006.

“Visualising Visualisations: Sketching and Design Methodology”, Open University Department of Computer Science, 17 May 2006.

“User Experiences with Security in e-Science Grids: Lessons & Opportunities ”, with Prof. M. Angela Sasse, Oxford Internet Institute, 15 May 2006.

“Gamelan Playtime: an Interactive Installation at Royal Festival Hall” Dorkbot London, November 2006.

Student Supervisions

Alistair Gray, “Why Buy an iPod?: Exploring the Relationship Between Aesthetics, Pleasure, and Usability”
Elizabeth Citron, “Does Usability Affect Brand Perception?”
Bejal Chawda, “Do Attractive Things Work Better? An Exploration of Search Tool Visualisations”
Sara Parker

Taught Courses

“Computational HCI”
“HCI 471 Digital Page Formatting II” (Info. Architecture and Web Design)
“ECT 441 Usability Issues for Electronic Commerce” (HCI)