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Brian J. O'Keefe Ph.D.
Interaction Designer
Post Doctorate
After finishing his Ph.D. at the University of Florence, Italy - Dr. O'Keefe is currently working on his Post Doc under the guidance of Prof. David Benyon at the Centre Interaction Design, Napier University, Edinburgh. As an Artist and Interaction Designer of a EU Framework 6 project: COMPANIONS, his research is to develop a personalized conversational interface, one that knows and understands its owner, all the while nurturing an emotional involvement from it’s owner/user to invoke the shift from interaction to relationship.
Publications
O'Keefe, B., Mival, O., Bradley, J & Benyon, D. (2008) Demonstrating Conversational Companions. In Proceedings Interactive Demos, NordiCHI 2008, Lund, Sweden.
Benyon, D., O'Keefe, B., Mival, O. (2008) Human-Centred Design of Interactive Service. In Proceedings HCI and Service Design Workshop, British HCI 2008, Liverpool, UK.
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N. & Benyon, D. (2008) PHOTOPAL: Companionship, sharing and the Digital Echo. In Proceedings Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos Workshop, CHI 2008, Florence, Italy.
O'Keefe.B., (2008) Dyslexia as a Resource for Design. In Proceedings International Association of Science and Technology for Development HCI Conference, ACTA Press. Innsbruck, Austria.
Activities
> Presentation "Design By Lifestyles" • Irish HCI Conference, Cork: Sept 2008
> Presentation PhD research • GIST Glasgow University: Mar 2008
> Conducted Workshop and Presentation • Dundee University: Feb 2008
> Presentation PhD research • Napier University: Nov 2007
> Attended PaperVision Workshop • Amsterdam, Holland: Oct 2007
> Supervised School of Computing MSc Student • Napier University: Sept 2007
> Coordinated COMPANIONS Project Workshop • Napier University: Aug 2007
> Judge at Siena Design Project • Siena, Italy: June 2007
> Presentation COMPANIONS Project • University of Siena, Italy: June 2007
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