Alan Blackwell

Alan Blackwell is Reader in Interdisciplinary Design at the Cambridge Computer Laboratory, having prior qualifications in professional engineering, computing and experimental psychology. He has 12 years experience of designing industrial systems, electronic and software products. He has taught design courses and supervised postgraduate design research students in Computing, Architecture, Psychology, Languages, Music and Engineering. He is a fellow of Darwin College, and a director of Living East, the cultural consortium for the East of England.

His research project interests include:

• Visual Representation
• End-User Development
• Interdisciplinary Design
• Tangible, Augmented and Embodied Interaction
• Psychology of Programming
• Computer Music
• Critical Theory