Jo Hare

POSITION:
Product & User Interaction Designer

EMAIL ADDRESS:
jhare@pdronline.co.uk

BIOGRAPHY:
Jo is a researcher and product designer at PDR. She is part of the User Centric Design Group at PDR which undertakes academic research and commercial interaction design projects.

Jo’s specific areas of interest are rapid interactive prototyping and user centric design, developing tools and techniques for user research that can be applied in a commercial setting.

Jo has been an RA on the AHRC/EPSRC funded DEPtH project investigating the impact of physicality on product design - how humans experience, manipulate, react and reason about 'real' physical things, and how this understanding can inform the future design of innovative products.

She is currently researching for her PhD “The importance of physicality in the design of interactive devices”.

KEYWORDS :
Product Design; User-Centric Design; User-Led Design; User-Centred Design; User-Experience, Interactive-Prototyping; User Research

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Ramduny-Ellis, D., Hare, J., Dix, A., Evans, M., and Gill, S. (2010) Physicality in Design: An Exploration, in The Design Journal, Volume 13, Issue 1, January 2010, pp48-76.

Dix, A., Gill, S., Ramduny-Ellis, D. and Hare, J. (2010) Design and Physicality – Towards an Understanding of Physicality in Design and Use, In Designing for the 21^stCentury: Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings. London:Gower. P172-189.

Hare, J., Gill, S., Loudon, G., Ramduny-Ellis, D. and Dix, A. (2009) Physical Fidelity: Exploring the Importance of Physicality on Physical-Digital Conceptual Prototyping in Proceedings of INTERACT 2009, Springer Berlin, pp 217-230, doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-03655-2_26.

Ramduny-Ellis, D., Dix, A., Gill, S. and Hare, J. (2009) Physicality and Interaction (Editorial). Interacting with Computers. Volume 21, Issues 1-2, January 2009, pp. 64-65.
doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2008.10.003

Dix, A., Ghazali, M., Gill, S., Hare, J., and Ramduny-Ellis, D. (2009) Physigrams: Modelling Devices for Natural Interaction, in Formal Aspects of Computing Journal, Springer doi: 10.1007/s00165-008-0099-y.

Gill, S., Walker, D., Loudon, G., Dix, A., Woolley, A., Ramduny-Ellis, D. and Hare, J. (2008)Rapid Development of Tangible Interactive Appliances: Achieving the Fidelity/Time Balance. In Hornecker, E., Schmidt, A., and Ullmer, B. (eds) Special Issue on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, International Journal of Arts and Technology, Volume 1, No 3/4 pp 309-331.

Ramduny-Ellis, D., Hare, J. Dix, A. and Gill, S. (2008) Exploring Physicality in the Design Process. In Undisciplined! Proceedings of the 2008 Design Research Society International Conference, (16-19 Jul. 2008), Sheffield, UK.

Ramduny-Ellis, D., Dix, A., Hare, J. and Gill, S. (eds.) (2007) Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Physicality, Physicality 2007, (2-3 Sep. 2007), Lancaster University, UK, ISBN 978-1-905617-60-9, UWIC Press.

Ramduny-Ellis, D., Dix, A., Hare, J. & Gill, S. (2007) Second International Workshop on Physicality. In Proceedings of BCS HCI 2007 Volume 2, People and Computers XXI, (3-7 Sep. 2007), pp. 217-218, ISBN 978-1-902505-95-4, BCS.