CURRICULUM VITAE

R Name: Mark J. Perry, BA (Hons.), MSc, PhD.

Date of birth: 24th August 1970

Nationality: British

Address: Dept of Computer Science, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, UK

Home: (+44) 1249 750208; Work: (+44) 1895 266008; Mobile: (+44) 7901 510 906
Email: dr.mark.j.perry@googlemail.com

SUMMARY
Interdisciplinary researcher, focused on interaction design, human-computer interaction and
computer supported co-operative work. Extensive experience managing research projects,
investigating and designing mobile, ubiquitous, distributed and collaborative technologies
from a user-centred perspective; currently, leading research projects valued at over 450K as
Principal Investigator. Director of 12 faculty member University Research Centre (20112014). Experienced educator in Computer Science and Digital Media, teaching across a
range of topics and ability levels over 18 years, currently Senior Tutor (2014-). Research
community building, including reviewing and committee work, ACM CHI Associate Chair
2007, 2009, 2012-14, and Subcommittee Chair 2010 and 2015. Senior committee member,
MobileHCI 2012. Senior member of the ACM. EPSRC College Member.
Research interests: design and use of financial services, video and digital media, shared
displays, collaborative and social media, domestic, and mobile technology to support
creativity, playfulness, innovation and collaboration. Examining the relationships between
people, organisations, settings, activities and digital technology.
EMPLOYMENT
Oct 2013 Present. Reader, at Brunel University, Information Systems and Computing.
Leading modules and teaching at L2, L3 and PGT. Director (2011-14), university
research centre (People and Interactivity).
Aug 2003 Sept 2013. Senior Lecturer at Brunel University, DISC. Module leader,
undergraduate courses (L2, L3).
2011-2012

Guest Professor, Department of Computing and System Sciences (DSV),

Stockholm University, Sweden (P/T Full Professorship with stipend).

2010-2012

Visiting Professor, Mobile Life Centre, Stockholm University, Sweden

(stipendiary, 2010-2011); Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Computer
Science, Bristol University, UK (non-stipendiary, 2010-2013).

Sept 1998 July 2003. Lecturer at Brunel University, Information Systems and Computing.
March - December 1998. Visiting Researcher at Stanford University (seconded, 3 months),
examining collaborative technology (CIFE), and cognitive theory (CSLI).
April 1997 - Aug 1998. Research Fellow at Brunel University (Postdoc).
1994 - 97

Part Time Lecturer at Brunel University. Supervised students on industrial

placements, led workshops and seminars. Supervision of a junior researcher.

1993 - 94

Researcher at Goldsmiths College, University of London (5 months, P/T).

General research duties (with Prof. R. Campbell).

1993

Intern, Hewlett-Packard Bristol Laboratories (5 months, with Prof. D. Frohlich).

1992

Research Assistant, University of Wales, College of Cardiff (1 month, with

Prof. S. Payne), funded by British Telecom.

EDUCATION
PhD (1997) Computer Science (HCI), Brunel University
MSc in Cognitive Science (1993) University of Wales, College of Cardiff
BA (Hons.) Psychology - 2:1 (1992) University of Wales, College of Cardiff
3 A Levels, 9 O Levels (1984-1989) Lancing College, Sussex
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RESEARCH FUNDING
Awards as Principal Investigator
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3 Party Dematerialisation and Rematerialisation of Capital: designing and innovating

credible digital intermediaries in the personal financial marketplace. EPSRC/Digital
Economy (FEC: 322,427 + 35K industrial support, 2013-2015).

Family Car Media Concept Demonstrator and Market Assessment. EPSRC Impact
Acceleration Account (IAA) Readiness (12,000, 2014).

Automedia: family life, interaction and media use in the car. EPSRC Dorothy Hodgkin
Postgraduate Award / Microsoft Research (90,000, 2011-2014).

URC seminar series: Studying Users and Designing Interactions with New Media
(2,500). Brunel Internal funding, 2011-2012.

Proximity-sensitive communication. EPSRC Vacation Bursary (2,500), Summer 2009.

On_message@home. Microsoft Research Create, play and learn competitive grant

award (57,450+VAT), investigating user behaviour and developing interaction designs
for domestic displays (2005-2006).

Senior visiting fellowship in communication. Royal Academy of Engineering and the

Vodafone Foundation (competitive grant, 7,800), Dr Oscar Juhlin (2005).

Designing for mobile and distributed work: Technology use in Remote Settings. EPSRC
grant (63,000) with Symbian Ltd. to design and develop mobile computing and
communications technologies (2001-2004). Rated as Tending to Outstanding in review.

Appliance design. Research award of 12,100 funded by the Appliance Studio, Bristol
to investigate the role of space in collaboration (2001).

Distributed cognition and organisational memory. BRIEF award (10,000) pump-primer

funding into innovative and promising areas of research (1999-2000).

Collaboration

Co-investigator: dotWorlds, contract funded by Angle Technology and the London

Development Agency (27,000+VAT). Developing and evaluating a synchronous webbased collaboration application. PI: Dr Simon Kent (2007-2008).

Senior visiting fellowship in communication, Royal Academy of Engineering and the

Vodafone Foundation (competitive grant, 7,500), Dr Mizuko Ito (2003-04).

Millennium Homes: A technology supported domestic environment for frail and elderly
people. DTI Foresight/ EPSRC (521,000, supplemented by industrial finance).
126,870 directly managed by Mark Perry. PI: Prof. H. Wolff (2000-2002).

Co-investigator, 60,000 EPSRC project: GROUPSIM: Developing strategies and

infrastructure for collaborative simulation modelling. PI: Dr. Simon Taylor (2000-2003).

From user interface to customer interface, 29,640, NCR Financial Systems. PI: Prof.
Bob O'Keefe (1998-2000).

RESEARCH STUDENTS
PhD Graduations:
Roshanak Zarabi (2011) Storing, caring and sharing: examining organisational practices
around material stuff in the home, DISC, Brunel (currently: Teaching Fellow, Brunel Uni.).
Laurel Swan (2011) Home/work: implications for domestic technologies, DISC, Brunel
University (currently Research Fellow, RCA, London).
Caroline Shangar (2009) Ubiquitous proximimity-sensitive systems, DISC, Brunel
University (currently: project manager, Vodafone Group Plc).
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 Marije Kanis (2009) Mobile technology and socio-affective computing. DISC, Brunel
University (currently: Associate Professor, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences).
Jacqueline Brodie (2004) Supporting communication on the move: user activities and
implications for mobile technology design. DISC, Brunel University (currently: Senior
Lecturer, Napier University).
Gabriella Spinelli (2004) Distributed Cognition: Artefacts and computational space for
collaborative problem solving. DISC, Brunel University (currently: SL, Brunel University).
Janet Cole (2002) Media Use and CSCW: A socio-organisational computational
description of accounting activities. DISC, Brunel University (currently: SL, Kingston).
Current PhD students:

Francois Roubert social networking in collaborative research (to complete 2014)

Chandrika Cycil AutoMedia: designing with family, cars and media (to complete 2014)

I am also currently second supervisor to eight other PhD students, and have supervised
around 40 MSc student projects on various topics.

RESEARCH MANAGEMENT
Principal Investigator on the 3DaRoC EPSRC project, co-ordinating all project activities and
leading a 5-person team from Brunel, Lancaster and Bristol Universities, with direct line
management of one Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2013-14). Supervision of EPSRC
DHPA researcher (2011-14) from India. Supervision of a Visiting Research Fellow (20082009) from Finland. Supervision of a Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the
on_Message@home project (2005-2006), involving data collection and the development of
prototype software. Supervision of two Research Assistants on the Millennium Homes
project, funded by a DTI Foresight/EPSRC grant. Engaged in developing the software
engineering and HCI/ ergonomics aspects of the project (period: 28 months, 2000-2002).
Supervision of research students working on a number of other industrially funded projects, a
Nuffield Grant and an EPSRC Vacation Bursary.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND ACADEMIC TEAM MANANAGEMENT

Module leader ICTs in Society (Level 2) and Social Media (Level 3) in 2010-2011, as well
as supporting Research Methods modules at UG and PG levels. Previously, module leader
(1998-2009) of a 20 credit module in Interactive Systems (human-computer interaction),
teaching a contingent of between 200-300 level 2 students and 30 level 1 students. The
module was long-running and extremely successful, and was very highly rated by students in
end-of-year evaluations. Responsibilities include managing several other members of the
lecturing staff on this module, as well as supervising and monitoring postgraduate teaching
assistants supporting the weekly practical workshops.
Dissertations Convenor (2005-2007) Module leader of the Project Team. The project
module forms the core of undergraduate and postgraduate courses. Involves managing a
team of 4 academic staff and an administrator and organising student submissions. Member
of staff-student liaison committee. Co-ordinating dissertation input towards 2006 BCS
Accreditation visit. Member of the undergraduate FYP team (2000-2002 and 2010-present).
Programme leader (2005-2006) Developed and led a new undergraduate degree in
Interactive Computing (human-computer interaction and interface design). Developed and coordinated teaching and learning resources with module leaders. Also co-developed and coordinated approval of a new MSc degree in Interactive Systems Design.
Other teaching responsibilities: PhD supervision, internal and external PhD examinations,
chairing PhD vivas, personal tutoring for Masters and Undergraduate students, supervising
undergraduate and MSc projects, interviewing undergraduate applicants and visiting
industrial-placement students offsite. Attendance and presentation at examination boards and
panel meetings, internal review of UG and PG modules.

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External Courses: Teaching and managing remote MTech programme at Brunels

Norwegian partner Institution (NITH) on their Extended Final Year Dissertation (2005-2007).
Development and running an undergraduate course component (Human-Computer
Interaction) with the University of London external degree programme (1998-present).
External MBA student supervision, Henley Management College (2000). Development and
delivery of New Technology courses, to FI Group in 2000 (WAP and Mobile Computing) and
AXA Insurance in 2001 (Human-Computer Interaction).
ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITIES

Senior Tutor (2014-), Department of Computer Science. Responsible for pastoral care,
academic welfare and student experience, overseeing academic tutor team, mitigating
circumstances and student representation.

Academic Management: Departmental Academic Committee (2014-), Department

Management Board (2014-). Promotions Panel (2015-)

Research group leader (2011-14) People and Interactivity (pandi) University Research
Centre, Brunels HCI group, composed of 12 faculty members. Previously (2005-11), coordinator for pandis Social Computing sub-group.

Level co-ordinator (2002-4) Ensuring consistency across undergraduate level 2

modules, and working with other year group co-ordinators to provide continuity of
teaching and learning across the UG degree structure. Member of departmental teaching
and learning board, member of staff-student liaison committee. Chair, working party on
undergraduate level 2 restructuring. Committee member working on departmental
submission to the QAA departmental engagement.

Staff appraisals (2003-2013) Conducting annual appraisals at lecturer and senior

lecturer levels.

University Library Services User Group. Chair (2003-2008), committee member

(1998-2008). Representing departmental interests, co-ordinating activities with the library
and reviewing book and journal subscriptions.

Ethics Committee Panel Member of Brunel University ad hoc Ethics Committee (20022003); Member of School (SISCM) Ethics Committee (2007-2009).

Final year degree show committee member (2000-2002) Annual event showcasing the
departments final year projects to an external audience. Involved organising the final
year degree show and arranging industrial sponsorship, which I initiated and led in its first
year (position relinquished due to 2002 sabbatical).

PEER RECOGNITION
Community:

Conference chairs: Subcommittee Chair, Understanding People: Theory, Concepts,

Methods, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (co-opted in 2010,
2015). Associate Chair, ACM CHI (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014). Co-chair,
Doctoral Consortium, BCS HCI, 2013. Associate Chair, Praxis + Poetics: Designing
Pleasurable Products and Interfaces (2013). Symposium Co-chair, Fieldwork untethered:
studying technology use in hybrid and undisciplined places (2005), Tokyo, Japan.

Selected Recent Conference committees: Best papers committee, ACM CHI 2013.
Programme Committee, BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction (2010, 2013).
Senior Programme Committee, MobileHCI 2012. Programme Committee, ACM SIGDOC
2012. Program Committee, Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular
Applications (AutomotiveUI 2009, 2010, 2012). Programme Committee, Persuasion,
Influence, Nudge & Coercion, (2010, 2011). Programme Committee, MobileHCI 2011.
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Programme Committee, 24 BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction
(HCI2010). Programme Committee, Graphics Interface, Canada (GI 2008, 2010).
Programme committee, European Conference on Computer Supported Co-operative
Work (ECSCW 2007).

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International workshop organisation: Organiser, Backseat/Frontseat workshop on

travel and mobile technology, London (2005). Co-organiser, ACM CSCW Workshop on
Public, community and situated displays: design, use and interaction around shared
information displays, New Orleans (OHara, Churchill, Perry, Russell and Streitz, 2002).
Co-organiser, ECSCW Workshop on Workplace studies: theoretical and practical
issues, Lancaster (Rosenberg and Perry, 1997). Co-organiser, ACM CHI Workshop on
#CHIMoney: Financial Interactions, Digital Cash, Capital Exchange and Mobile Money
(with Kaye, Vertesi, Brown and Ferreira, 2014).

Project Advisor: SALTSA Mobile and Virtual Work group (2004-2006), advising
Swedish trade unions and the Arbeitslivingstitutet (Swedish National Institute for Working
Life) on the implications of new mobile technologies on workplace change.

Policy Contributor: Foresight Future Identities. Changing identities in the UK: the next
10 years (2013) Final Project Report. The Government Office for Science, London, UK.

Funding/ Grant Reviewing

EPSRC College Member: elected to peer review college (2013). Previously, regular
reviewer EPSRC research proposals (2000-13).

UK research councils and funding bodies: ESRC (Economic and Social Research
Council) referee/rapporteur, AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) independent
reviewer, and British Council grants reviewer. 15 years of regular reviewing for grant
applications and end-of-award reports.

International Panel Membership: IKTPLUSS programme (Research Council of Norway,

2015), Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) programme (EU, 2014). VERDIKT
strategic research programme (Research Council of Norway, 2006-2011). NordForsk
(Nordic research advisory body, 2010).

International reviewing: Reviewer, Research Council of Norway (2014), Reviewer,

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (2012). Reviewer,
Marsden Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand (2011). Reviewer, 'Thalis' Research
Program, Greek Ministry of Education (2011, 2012). Reviewer, Netherlands Organisation
for Health Research and Development (2009). Reviewer, EU FET programme (2009).

Academic Reviewing

Selected journals: ACM Transactions on Human-Computer Interaction (ToCHI),

International Journal of Human Computer Studies (IJHCS), Communications of the ACM
(CACM), International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (IJHCI), Interacting with
Computers (BCS IwC), IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, IEEE
Internet Computing, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, European Journal of
Information Systems. Regular invited review committee member J. Computer Supported
Co-operative Work.

Selected conferences: ACM CHI (awarded special recognition), ACM CSCW, HICCS,
ICEC, Cognitive Science Society, BCS HCI, Pervasive, Ubicomp.

Book reviewing: MIT Press, Pearson Education, Wiley, Thomson Learning.

Academic Assessments

External examiner (UG): Undergraduate courses in Computing and Multimedia

Technology at Middlesex University, School of Computing Science (2003-2007).

External examiner (PG): Masters by Research, School of History and Philosophy of

Science at University of New South Wales, Australia (2007). MSc E-Business and
Innovation, Lancaster University (2011-2014). MSc Human-Computer Interaction with
Ergonomics, UCL (2015-).

External examiner (PhD): Thesis opponent, IT University, Stockholm, Sweden (2005);

Lancaster University (2006); London School of Economics (2008); QMW, University of
London (2009), Surrey University (2012), Glasgow University (2013), Oxford University
(2014).

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OTHER AFFILIATIONS AND ORGANISATIONAL LINKS

Senior Visiting Researcher (2008-present), Mobility Studio, DSV, Stockholm University
(previously, Interactive Institute). Member, international Mobile and Virtual Work research
group, funded by SALTSA, Sweden (2004-2006). Associate, Appliance Studio (2003-2009).
Visiting Researcher, Appliance Studio, Bristol (2002). Associate Researcher, Personal
Information Management Centre at UWE, Bristol (1995-1998). Visiting Scholar, Centre for
the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University, California, USA (1998).

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SELECTED RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS

The six best (2014 REF period) publications are noted with an asterisk (*). Papers with
substantial (30+) citations are noted; citation counts are taken from Google Scholar.
(Current citation metrics: h-index=21; i10-index=38; citations=2450, from Google Scholar)
Journal articles
Cycil, C., Perry, M., Laurier, E. (2014) Designing for frustration and disputes in the family car.
International Journal of Mobile HCI, 6 (2), 47-61.
*Perry, M., Normark, D. and Juhlin, O. (2010) Laying waste: object ownership, accountability,
shared responsibility and social control. Space and Culture, 10 (13), 75-94.
*Perry, M. (2010) Socially distributed cognition in loosely coupled systems. AI and Society,
25, 387-400.
Kanis, M., Brinkman, W-P. and Perry, M. (2009) Designing for positive disclosure: What do
you like today? International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics, 39 (3), 564-572.
Laurier, E., Lorimer, H., Brown, B., Jones, O, Juhlin, O., Noble, A., Perry, M., Pica, D.,
Sormani, P., Strebel, I., Swan, L., Taylor, A.S., Watts, L. and Weilenmann, A. (2008)
Driving and passengering: notes on the ordinary organization of car travel. Mobilities,
3 (1), 1-23.
140 citations
Perry, M. and Rachovides, D. (2007) Entertaining situated messaging at home. CSCW: the
Journal of Collaborative Computing, 16 (1-2), 99-128.
Taylor, A.S., Harper, R., Swan, L., Izadi, S. Sellen, A. and Perry, M. (2007) Homes that make
us smart. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 11 (5), 383-393.
106 citations
Spinelli, G., Perry, M., and OHara, K. (2005) Understanding complex cognitive systems: the
role of space in the organisation of collaborative work. Cognition, Technology and
Work, 7, 111-118.
Perry, M., Dowdall, A., Lines, L., and Hone, K. (2004) Multimodal and ubiquitous computing
systems: supporting contextual interaction for older users in the home. IEEE
Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (Special issue on Pervasive
Healthcare), 8 (3), 258-270.
87 citations
Condon, C., Perry, M. and O'Keefe, R.M. (2004) Denotation and connotation in the humancomputer interface: The Save as... command. Behaviour and Information Technology,
23 (1), 21-31.
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Perry, M. (2003) (IS) : Is Information Systems Interesting in Itself? European Journal of

Information Systems, 12 (3), 231-234.
Perry, M., O'Hara, K., Sellen, A. Harper, R. & Brown, B.A.T. (2001) Dealing with mobility:
understanding access anytime, anywhere. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human
Interaction, 8 (4), 323-347.
530 citations
Brodie, J. and Perry, M. (2001) Designing for blue-collar work. Mobility, collaboration and
information use. ACM Siggroup Bulletin, 22 (3), p. 21-27.
52 citations
O'Keefe, R.M., Cole, M., Chau, P.Y.K., Massey, A., Montoya-Weiss, M. and Perry, M. (2000)
From the user interface to the consumer interface: results from a global experiment.
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 53, 611-628.
63 citations

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Brown, B. and Perry, M. (2000) Why dont telephones have off-switches? Understanding the
use of everyday technologies. Interacting with Computers, 12 (6), 623-634.
37 citations
Rajani, R. and Perry, M. (1999) The reality of medical work - the case for a new perspective
on telemedicine. Virtual Reality, 4, 243-249.
Perry, M. Fruchter, R. and Rosenberg, D. (1999) Co-ordinating distributed knowledge: an
investigation into the use of an organisational memory. Cognition, Technology and
Work, 1 (3), 142-152.
Pouloudi, N., Perry, M. and Saini, R. (1999) Organisational appropriation of technology: a
case study. Cognition, Technology and Work, 1 (3), 169-178.
Perry, M. and Sanderson, D. (1998) Co-ordinating joint design work: the role of
communication and artefacts. Design Studies, 19 (3) 273-288.
158 citations
Peer reviewed conference papers
Ferreira, J., Perry, M. and Subramanian, S. (2015) Spending Time with Money: from shared
values to social connectivity. Proc. ACM CSCW15, March 1418, 2015, Vancouver,
British Columbia, Canada.
Ferreira, J. and Perry, M. (2015) Building an Alternative Social Currency: Dematerialising and
rematerialising digital money across media. Proc. HCI Korea15, Dec 10-12, Seoul,
South Korea. Lee (Ed.), Hanbit Media, Inc. (download: ACM digital library), 122-131.
Cycil, C., Perry, M.J., and Eardley, R. (2014) The HomeCar organiser: designing for blurring
home-car boundaries. In Adjunct Proc. ACM UbiComp. ACM Press, NY, USA, 955-962.
Roubert, F. and Perry, M. (2013) Putting the lab in the lab book: supporting coordination in
large, multi-site research. Proc. BCS HCI 2013, London, UK. Love, Hone, and McEwan
(Eds.), Article 12, 10 pages.
Cycil, C., Perry, M., Laurier, E. and Taylor, A. (2013) Eyes Free In-Car Assistance: Parent
and child passenger collaboration during phone calls. Proc. ACM MobileHCI 2013,
Munich, Germany, 332-341.
Jamil, I., Perry, M., O'Hara, K., Karnik, A., Marshall, M. T., Jha, S., Gupta, S. and
Subramanian, S. (2013) Dynamic Spatial Positioning: Physical collaboration around
interactive table by children in India. In Proc. Interact 2013IFIP TC13 Int. Conf. on
HCI, Cape Town, South Africa, Sept 2-6, 2013. Berlin: Springer. p. 141-158.
Jamil, I., Perry, M., O'Hara, K., Karnik, A., Marshall, M.T., Jha, S., Gupta, S. and
Subramanian, S. (2012) Group Interaction on Interactive Multi-touch Tables by Children
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in India. IDC12, IFIP TC13, 11 International Conference on Interaction Design and
Children (June 12-15, 2012) Bremen, Germany.
*Engstrm, A., Perry, M. and Juhlin, O. (2012). Mediated Viewing and Amateur Vision:
recreational orientation in collaborative video production. Proceedings of ACM CSCW
2012 (Feb 11-15, 2012), Seattle, WA, USA. Winner: Best Paper Award (in top 1% of
415 conference submissions).
*Jamil, I., OHara, K., Perry, M., Karnik, A. and Subramanian, S. (2011) The effects of
interaction techniques on talk patterns in collaborative peer learning around interactive
tables. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2011, Vancouver, Canada, 3043-3052.
Perry, M., Beckett, S., OHara, K. & Subramanian, S. (2011) WaveWindow: public,
performative gestural interaction. ACM International Conference on Interactive
Tabletops and Surfaces 2010, Saarbrcken, Germany.
*Engstrm, A., Juhlin, O., Perry, M. and Broth, M. (2010). Temporal hybridity: Mixing live
video footage with instant replay in real time. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2010, Atlanta,
GA., USA, 1495-1504.
*Perry, M., Juhlin, O., Esbjrnsson, M. and Engstrm, A. (2009). Lean collaboration through
video gestures: co-ordinating the production of live televised sport. Proceedings of
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ACM CHI 2009, Boston, Mass., USA, April 04-09, 2279-2288. Nomination for best
paper award (top 5% of 1130 submissions).
Salovaara, A., Zarabi, R., and Perry, M. (2008) The fine art of surfacing. Proceedings of
SIMTech08, Nov 21-22, Cambridge, UK.
Engstrm, A., Esbjornsson, M., Juhlin, O. and Perry, M. (2008) Producing Collaborative
Video: Developing an Interactive User Experience for Mobile TV. Proceedings of UXTV
2008: First International Conference on Designing Interactive User Experiences for TV
and Video, Oct 22-24, Mountain View, CA, USA.
Kanis, M., Perry, M. and Brinkman, W-P. (2008) Minimal connectedness: exploring the
effects of positive messaging using mobile technology. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2008
(Extended Abstracts/ AltCHI), Florence, Italy, April 5-10, 2513-2522.
Rachovides, D. and Perry, M. (2006) HCI Research in the home: lessons for empirical
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research and technology development within the home. Proceedings 20 BCS HCI
2006, QMW, London, September 11-15 2006, vol. 2, 30-33.
Swan, L., Izadi, S., Taylor, A.S., Sellen, A., Harper R. and Perry, M. (2006) Rethinking the
st
Smart Home. 1 International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, Homerton
College, Cambridge, UK.
Perry, M. and Shangar, C. (2005) Marked Spaces: interaction design and sensor integration
for ubiquitous location-based messaging and communication. 3rd Ubi-Net Workshop:
Designing, evaluating and using ubiquitous computing systems, February 9-11 2005,
Bath, UK.
Love, S. and Perry, M. (2004) Dealing with mobile conversations in public places: some
implications for the design of socially intrusive technologies. Proceedings of ACM CHI
2004, Vienna, Austria, April 24-29, 1195-1198.
32 citations
Perry, M and OHara, K. (2003) Display-based activity in the workplace. Proceedings of
Interact 2003 IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction,
Zurich, Switzerland, 1-5 September, 591-598.
OHara, K., Perry, M. and Lewis, S. (2003) Social coordination around a situated display
appliance. Proceedings of ACM CHI 2003, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 5-10 April, 65-72.
58 citations
OHara, K. and Perry, M. (2003) User centred opportunities for supporting consumer
behaviour through handheld and ubiquitous computing. Proceedings of the 36th Annual
Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science, Big Island, Hawaii, 6-9 January
2003, Ed R. Sprague. IEEE Computer Society.
OHara, K., Brown, B. and Perry, M. (2003) Mobile work, technology and place. Proceedings
of Mobile Communication: Social and Political Effects. Budapest, April 24-25, 2003.
Brown, B. and Perry, M. (2002) Of maps and guidebooks: designing geographical
technologies. Proceedings of DIS2002 - ACM Conference on Designing Interactive
Systems: processes, practices, methods, and techniques. London, UK, 25-28 June,
2002, 246-254.
69 citations
Lee, H. and Perry, M. (2001) Contextualising Virtuality: Polychronicity and Multipresence.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Spacing and Timing: Rethinking
Globalization & Standardization, Palermo, Italy, 1-3 November 2001.
OHara, K. and Perry, M. (2001) Shopping anytime, anywhere. Proceedings of ACM CHI
2001, Seattle, Washington. 31 March - 5 April, 345-346.
Perry, M. J., Fruchter, R. and Spinelli, G. (2001) Spaces, Traces and Networked Design.
Proceedings of the 34th Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Science,
Maui, Hawaii, 3-6 January 2001, Ed R. Sprague. IEEE Computer Society.
Perry M. (1999) The application of individually and socially distributed cognition in workplace
studies: Two peas in a pod? In S. Bagnara (Ed.) Proceedings of the European
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Conference on Cognitive Science ECCS '99, 27-30 October, Certosa di Pontignano,

Siena, Italy, 87-92.
30 citations
Perry, M. (1998) Process, representation and taskworld: distributed cognition and the
organisation of information. In Exploring the Contexts of Information Behaviour,
(Proceedings of ISIC98 - Information Seeking in Context: an International Conference
on Information Needs, Seeking and Use in Different Contexts). Eds. Wilson and Allen.
London: Taylor Graham. p. 552-567.
Rosenberg, D., Perry, M.J., Leevers, D.R.A. and Farrow, N. (1997) People and Information
Finder: an informational perspective. The Social Shaping of Multimedia, Proceedings of
International Conference, COST4. Ed. Slack, Stewart and Williams. European
Commission DGXIII, Luxembourg, p. 129-154.
Perry, M.J. and Thomas, P.J. (1995) Externalising the internal: collaborative design through
dynamic problem visualisation. Adjunct proceedings of BCS HCI95 Conference:
People and Computers, August 29 - September 1st, Huddersfield, UK. Eds. Allen,
Wilkinson & Wright, p. 149-154.
Books
Ghinea, G., Klecun, E. Perry, M. and Taylor, S. (2006) Information and communication
technologies: principles and perspectives. London, UK: University of London Press.
Includes chapter by Perry, M.: Human-computer interaction, p.9-76.
OHara, K., Perry, M., Churchill, E. and Russell, D. (Eds.) (2003) Public and situated displays:
social and interactional aspects of shared display technologies (edited collection),
Dordrecht, the Netherlands: Kluwer International CSCW series.
118 citations
Avgerou, C., Taylor, S. Perry, M. and Klecun-Dabrowska, E. (1999, 2003) Elements of
information and communication technologies. London, UK: University of London Press.
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Includes chapter by Perry, M.: Human-computer interaction, p.157-190 (2 edition).
Book chapters
Sams, S., Perry, M., & Kent, S. (accepted). Internet Regulation and Cyber-Defamation in
South Korea: The Implications of Online Identity Verification. In Bishop & Solo (Eds.).
Politics and Policy in the Information Age. NY: Springer.
Perry, M., Juhlin, O. and Engstrm, A. (2014) Dealing with time, just in time: sense-making
and clip allocation in multi-person, multi-stream, live replay TV production. In Broth,
Laurier and Mondada (Eds.) Studies of Video Practices: video at work, p. 262-286. NY:
Routledge.
Perry, M. (2013) Socially distributed cognition in loosely coupled systems. In Cowley &
Valle-Tourangeau (Eds) Cognition Beyond the Brain: computation, interactivity and
human artifice, p.147-170. Berlin: Springer.
Perry, M. (2013) Distributed Cognition. In Paschler, H. (Ed.), Sage Encyclopedia of the Mind.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Perry, M. (2009) Ethnographic and documentary field methods. In Love, S. (Ed.) Handbook
of mobile technology research methods. New York: Nova.
Perry, M. and Brodie, J. (2005) Virtually connected, practically mobile. In Andriesson, E. and
Vartiainen, M. (Eds.) Mobile Virtual Work: a new paradigm, p. 97-127, Berlin: Springer.
OHara, K., Brown, B. and Perry, M. (2003) Mobile work, technology and place.
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Communications in the 21 Century Mobile Democracy: Essays on society, self and
politics, Kristf Nyiri (Ed.), p. 65-72. Vienna: Passagen Verlag.
OHara, K., Perry, M., Churchill, E. and Russell, D. (2003) Introduction to public and situated
displays. In OHara, K., Perry, M., Churchill, E. and Russell, D. (Eds.) Public and

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situated displays: social and interactional aspects of shared display technologies, p.

xvii-xxxiii, Kluwer.
OHara, K., Perry, M. and Lewis, S. (2003) Situated web signs and the ordering of social
action: Social co-ordination around a public room reservation display appliance. In
OHara, K. Perry, M., Churchill, E. and Russell, D. (Eds.) Public and situated displays:
social and interactional aspects of shared display technologies, p. 105-140, Kluwer.
Perry, M. (2003) Distributed Cognition. In Carroll, J.M. (Ed.) HCI Models, Theories, and
Frameworks: Toward an Interdisciplinary Science. p.193-223. San Francisco: Morgan
Kaufmann Publishers.
134 citations
OHara, K., Perry, M., Sellen, A.J. and Brown, B. A. T. (2001) Exploring the relationship
between mobile phone and document use during business travel. In Brown, B., Green,
N., Harper, R. (Eds) Wireless World: social and interactional implications of wireless
technology. p.180-194. Springer Verlag.
58 citations
Other publications
Pantidi, N. Ferreira, J., Balestrini, M., Perry, M., Marshall, P. & McCarthy. J. (2015)
Connected Sustainability: connecting sustainability-driven, grass-roots communities
through technology. In Extended Abstracts on Communities & Technology, in Limerick,
Eire.
McKnight, J.C., Ferreira, J., Fish, A. and Perry, M. (2015) Digital financial innovation: design
rhetorics, spatiality, and the challenge of creating community. Workshop on
Collaboration and Social Computing in Emerging Financial Services, ACM CSCW
2015, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Kaye, J., Vertesi, J., Ferreira, J., Brown, B. and Perry, M. (2014) #CHImoney: financial
interactions, digital cash, capital exchange and mobile money. In Extended Abstracts
on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 111-114.
Cycil, C., Perry, M. & Laurier, E (2013) Mobilities in Urban India-Reflecting on Family Travel
Practices. In Mobility Futures, Lancaster, September 2013 (abstract only).
Cycil, C., Perry, M., Laurier, E. and Taylor, A. (2013). The Everyday Driving Life of Mothers.
Motherhood and HCI Workshop, ACM CHI, Paris, France.
Cycil, C., Perry, M. and Laurier, E. (2013) Turn that Racket off: Designing for disputes and
frustration in the Family Car. MobileHCI 2013 Workshop on Entertainment Technology
in Transportation against Frustration, Aggression and Irrationality.
Cycil, C. & Perry, M. (2012) Car journeys: space, interaction and behaviour. Discourse,
Communication, Conversation Conference, Loughborough, March 21-23.
Cycil, C., Laurier, E. & Perry, M. (2012) The moving family car, media and new interactions.
New Interaction Orders, New Mobile Publics Workshop, Lancaster, April 13-14.
Engstrm, A. and Perry, M. (2011) Liveness in live TV: production, experience and future
design. Workshop at ACM CHI 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
nnevall, E., Juhlin, O. and Perry, M. (2010). TV watching at sports bars as social
interaction. Designing for crowds workshop, Pervasive10 Conference, Helsinki
Kanis, M., Perry, M. and Brinkman, W-P. (2008) Positive Expressive Technologies for Mental
Wellness. ACM CHI'08 Workshop: Technology in Mental Health, 2008.
Perry, M. (2006) On waiting and killing time: doing hanging around. Why Wait? workshop,
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, London, 27-28 August.
Perry, M., Rachovides, D., Taylor, A.S. and Swan, L. (2006) Playfully situated messaging in
the home: appropriation of messaging resources in entertainment. ACM CHI Workshop:
Entertainment media at home: looking at the social aspects of use, 2006.

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Perry, M. and Rachovides, D. (2006) At home with the on_message@home system. ACM
CHI Workshop: IT@Home: Unravelling Complexities of Networked Devices in the
Home, 2006.
Perry, M., OHara, K., Spinelli, G. and Sharpe, B. (2003) The role of space in socially
distributed cognition: some issues for cognitive engineering. Short paper, in
Proceedings of the 25th Annual meeting of the cognitive science society (Cogsci 2003),
Boston, USA, 31 July - 2 August, 916-921.
Brodie, J., Chattratichart, J., Perry, M. and Scane, R. (2003) How age can inform the future
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design of the mobile phone experience. 10 International Conference on HumanComputer Interaction, Crete, Greece.
Brodie, J. and Perry, M. (2002) Do we need a table? Mobile collaboration at the tabletop in
public spaces. CSCW02 Workshop Co-located Tabletop Collaboration: Technologies
and Directions.
Spinelli, G., Brodie, J. and Perry, M. (2002) Using distributed cognition and contextual design
to analyse and represent collaborative activities. CSCW02 Workshop Analyzing
Collaborative Activity: Representing field research for understanding collaboration.
Brown, B. and Perry, M. (2001) Of maps and guidebooks: designing geographical
technologies. ACM Siggroup Bulletin, 22 (3), p. 28-32
Perry, M., O'Hara, K., Sellen, A. Harper, R. & Brown, B.A.T. (2001) Research alert - Dealing
with mobility. ACM Interactions: November/December 2001, 9-11. NY: ACM Press.
Dowdall, A. and Perry, M. (2001) The Millennium Home: domestic technology to support
independent-living older people. 1st Equator IRC Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing
in Domestic Environments, Nottingham, Sept 13-14.
Rajani, R. and Perry, M. (2000) Medical Work as Practised: implications for the design of
telemedicine and medical information systems. SIHI (Southern Institute for Health
Informatics) 3rd Annual Conference, 14th September 2000, University of Portsmouth,
UK.
O'Hara, K., Perry, M., Sellen, A. and Brown, B.A.T. (1999) Managing Information on the
Move: A study of the information needs of mobile professionals. Hewlett Packard
Technical Report (HPL-1999-123).
Perry, M.J. (1997) Distributed cognition and computer supported collaborative design: the
organisation of work in construction engineering. PhD Thesis, Brunel University, UK.
45 citations
Perry, M.J. (1995) Cognitive Artefacts and Collaborative Design. IEE Colloquium: Design
systems with users in mind: the role of cognitive artefacts. IEE Computing and control
division (C5, Human-computer interaction), Digest no. 95/231.
Perry, M. (1995) Artefacts in collaborative design. Conference supplement to the fourth
European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, September 10-14,
Stockholm, Sweden. Eds. Sundblad, Tollmar, Reignier, Fahln & Forsyth, p. 37-38.
Frohlich, D. and Perry, M.J. (1995) The paperful office paradox. Hewlett Packard Technical
Report (HPL-94-20).
Perry, M.J. (1993) The cognitive functions of paper. MSc Thesis, UWC Cardiff, UK.
Invited external talks
MobileLife, Stockholm University (2014) Invited Keynote: Ordinary interaction around local,
digital and mixed media currency exchange: managing fungible, social and material
transactions. The Future of Money Symposium. Sweden.
LSE, Department of Management (2014) Invited panel discussant: Publishing and early
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career planning. 10 SST Open Research Forum.
UCL, Interaction Centre (2013) Seminar: AutoMedia: family life, interaction and media use in
the car.

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Aarhus University, Center for Semiotics (2013). Invited plenary speaker. Winter Symposium
(Extended Problem Solving). Denmark.
University of Limerick, Ireland, Interaction Design Centre (2011) Work around - practices
around technology, space and the ever-changing nature of organisational life. Invited
keynote: The Nomadic Work/Life International Seminar Series IV.
Surrey University, Digital Worlds Research Centre (2011) Seminar: User-generated video
production: mobile, interacting, live and online.
Birmingham University, Advanced Interaction Group (2010) Seminar: Producing live TV:
interaction, collaboration and mobile technology in real-time video-based media.
Freiburg University, Germany, FRIAS (2010) Mediated multi-stream media production:
making sense of sense-making in distributed and multi-participant professional video
production, Panel Member, Video studies of conversational aspects of video activities.
Nottingham University, Mixed Reality Lab (2010) Seminar: Making live TV together.
Swansea University, Future Interaction Technology Laboratory (2010) Seminar: Ethnography
and interaction analysis: trash and TV.
Open University, Human Centred Computing Group (2010) Seminar: Proximity-sensitive
interaction.
Bath University, HCI Group (2010) Seminar: Producing live TV together.
Bristol University, Graphic and Interaction Group (2009) Seminar: Designing interactive
proximity-sensitive services.
Distributed Thinking Symposium (2008) Invited paper: Making use of things to think with: the
mobilisation of social and physical resources in enabling distributed cognition, University of
Hertfordshire.
Dell Computers, commercial product launch (2008) Panel discussant on the future of mobile
computing: 'Digital Nomads'. Altitude, London.
Microsoft Research, Cambridge (2008) Invited discussant: Lean interaction: the collaborative
production of live televised sport. Workshop on Video Editing.
The Mobile Life Centre, SICS, Stockholm University, Sweden (2007) Seminar: Designing
Proximity-Sensitive Services.
City University London, Centre for HCI Design (2007) Seminar: Socially distributed cognition,
artefacts and organisations.
Glasgow University, EPSRC MATCH Project meeting (2006) Seminar: The Millennium
Homes experience.
Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL (2006) Invited discussant: On waiting and killing time:
doing hanging around, discussing urban waiting behaviour and technologies for waiting.
Microsoft Research, Cambridge (2006) Invited participant: Display-based messaging at
home. Create, Play and Learn Workshop, discussing findings supporting ludic computing.
Department of Geography, Edinburgh University (2005) Invited discussant: Passengers,
discussing mobility in transport systems.
Computing Department, Lancaster University (2005) Departmental seminar: Display based
messaging in the home.
IT University (Gteborg and Chalmers University), Stockholm, Sweden (2005) Opponent in
public discussion of PhD Thesis: Enhanced Social Interaction in Traffic.
Department for Transport (2005) Invited discussant: Travel Time Use. Hosted and
sponsored by the DfT and the Centre for Transport & Society (UWE, Bristol).
Napier University, Edinburgh (2005) Invited paper: Reproducing place, at the Design
strategies for non-place workshop. AHRB/EPSRC cluster, Designing for the 21st Century.
Mosaic Group (EU network project) meeting, Rome (2005) Mobilising work, discussing
issues of socio-cognitive co-ordination in mobile work practice, and asking the theoretical
question: how is work made mobile?

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Saltsa Institute, Sweden (2004) Virtually connected, practically mobile: mobile technology
and mobile work, examining the theoretical and practical implications arising from recent
research activities into mobile virtual work.
Department of Computing, University of Bath (2003) HCI Research Group seminar: On being
mobile: life, work, travel and technology, discussing the interaction between context,
technology and mobile work.
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Interactive Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (2003) Invited discussant and speaker at the 2
Conference on Movement in the City, speaking on methodology and data analysis for mobile
technology research.

Department of Computing, Imperial College London (2003) Seminar: Dealing with mobility:
some implications for mobile and ubiquitous technology.
Glasgow University, GIST Group (2002) Seminar: Distributed Cognition and its application in
HCI and CSCW.
Symbian Ltd., London. (2001) Invited speaker series: Distributed and Mobile Work,
discussing mCommerce and mobile work.
Hewlett-Packard Bristol, user interface group (2001) Mobile eCommerce: Shopping anytime,
anywhere.
Department of Sociology Surrey University (2000) Mobile technology in use: managing time
and social space, examining distributed cognition and mobile work.

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