Dr Ian Culverhouse

POSITION:
Interactive Product Designer

EMAIL ADDRESS:
iculverhouse@pdronline.co.uk

BIOGRAPHY:
Ian Culverhouse is a product designer and interactive prototyping researcher.  Ian graduated from University of Wales Institute Cardiff in 2006 with a 1st Class Honours Degree in Computer Aided Product Design.  He went on to study a Masters in Advanced Product Design with a focus on Computer Embedded Products, graduating in 2007 with distinction.

He has recently submitted his PhD thesis titled, Investigation into the Potential of a Novel Rapid Low Fidelity Interactive Prototyping Technique for the Design development of Computer Embedded Devices.

Ian now works as a Product Interaction Designer at PDR using his skills and knowledge of applying design research to commercial design projects. His interests include the design & prototyping of interactive products, user research and interaction design.

KEYWORDS :
Tangible Interaction Designer, User-Experience, Interactive-Prototyping

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
CULVERHOUSE, I., GILL, S., WOOLLEY, A. & LOUDON, G. (2009) Construct, Deconstruct & Reconstruct: Exploring interactive sketching of information appliances. Published in the proceedings of IASDR 2009. Available here.

CULVERHOUSE, I. & GILL, S. (2009) Bringing Concepts to Life: Introducing a rapid interactive sketch modelling toolkit for industrial designers.  Third International Conference on Tangible Embedded Interactions. Cambridge UK, ACM.  Available here.