Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing at the Mixed Reality Laboratory where he explores the potential of ubiquitous computing to support art, performance, culture and entertainment. He has worked widely with artists, most notably Blast Theory, to develop innovative experiences that are then deployed and studied 'in the wild' using ethnography. He has published over 200 papers, including 20 full papers at ACM CHI, 6 in ACM Transactions on CHI, 3 in Communications of the ACM, and a full paper at SIGGRAPH. He led the EPSRC funded Pervasive and Locative Arts Network and was an investigator on EPSRC’s Equator Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC).

Website: http://www.mrl.nott.ac.uk/~sdb/

Email: sdb AT cs.nott.ac.uk