Professor Steve Gill

POSITION:
Professor of Interactive Product Design

EMAIL ADDRESS:
sjgill@cardiffmet.ac.uk

BIOGRAPHY:
Steve is the head of the PAIPR group. He is also a lecturer in Product Design and Director of Research for the Cardiff School of Art & Design. See his Academia.edu profile below.

As well as the management related posts mentioned above, Steve is a product designer and academic with 18 years experience in industry and HE. He has designed or product managed around 50 products to market and has published 35+ academic journal and conference papers. He is currently co-writing a book on Physicality with Prof. Alan Dix of University of Lancaster called Touch IT and a text book on prototyping. Touch IT came out of the DEPtH: Designing for Physicality project, a research council funded collaboration with University of Lancaster. Steve is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy member of the Design Research Society and a member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s Peer Review College

KEYWORDS:
Prototyping; Interaction Design; Physicality

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Dix, A., Gill, S., Ramduny-Ellis, D., and Hare, J. (2010) Chapter in “Designing for the 21st Century: Interdisciplinary Methods and Findings” published by Gower

Ramduny-Ellis, D., Hare, J., Dix, A., Evans, M. and Gill, S. (2010) Physicality in Design: An Exploration to be published in the Design Journal (exact issue to be announced)

Dix, A., Ghazahil, M., Gill, S., Hare, J., & Ramduny-Ellis, D. (2009) Physigrams: modelling devices for natural interaction Volume 21, Number 6 / December, 2009. Available here.

Gill, S.  (2009) ‘Six Challenges Facing User-Orientated Industrial Design’, Design Journal 12.1

Culverhouse, I., Gill, S. (2009) Bringing concepts to life: introducing a rapid interactive sketch modelling toolkit for industrial designers. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction pp 359-362. Available here.

Ramduny-Ellis, D., Dix, A., Gill, S., and Hare, J. (editors) (2009) Special Issue on Physicality and Interaction (editorial). Interacting with Computers. Volume 21, Issues 1-2, January 2009, pp. 64-124.

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. Available here.

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. Available here.

Gill, S., Loudon, G., Walker, D., (2008) Designing a design tool: working with industry to create an information appliance design methodology; In Journal of Design Research (JDR), Volume 7, Issue 2 p97-119 DOI: 10.1504/JDR.2008.020851. Available here.

Links:
Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototyping Research
Cardiff School of Art & Design
Academia.edu profile