Gilbert Cockton

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Gilbert Cockton

Email address:

Gilbert.Cockton-2@sunderland.ac.uk

Department:

Faculty of Technology (8CCS)

Biography

Expertise:

Creative Practices in Software Design, Evaluation Practices in Software Design, Design Theory, Agile and Lean approaches

Job title:

Professor

Biography:

Gilbert Cockton was first appointed as Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in 1997 after appointments at Northumbria, Glasgow and Heriot-Watt Universities. In 2009, he became Professor of Design Theory at Northumbria. After retiring in 2019, he returned to Sunderland University on a part-time basis. He is co-editor-in-chief of ACM Interactions magazine and has had other senior roles in ACM, ACM SIGCHI, IFIP and the BCS Interaction Group. His work is highly cited, with 260 publications since 1985 and almost 250 invited presentations in 23 countries (including 14 keynotes). He has been involved in the supervision or examination of over 90 PhD students in Design, Computing and related HCI disciplines.

Qualifications:

History Part 1 and Education Part 2 1st class honours, PGCE and MA, St. John's College, University of Cambridge PhD Heriot-Watt University

My Latest

Cockton, Gilbert (2020) Research for Designing for Emotions. In: Emotions in Technology Design: From Experience to Ethics. Human–Computer Interaction Series . Springer, pp. 43-62. ISBN 9783030534837
Mcdonald, Sharon, Cockton, Gilbert and Irons, Alastair (2020) The impact of Thinking-Aloud on usability inspection. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 4 (88). pp. 1-21. ISSN 2573-0142
Cockton, Gilbert (2020) Worth-focused Design: Approaches, Contexts and Case Studies, Volume 2. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics, 13 (2). Morgan & Claypool, San Rafael, California (USA)., i-203. ISBN 9781681738161
Cockton, Gilbert (2020) Worth-focused Design: Balance, Integration and Generosity, Volume 1. Synthesis Lectures on Human-Centered Informatics, 13 (2). Morgan & Claypool, San Rafael, California.
Cockton, Gilbert (2020) Usability Diverges, Media Converges, Design Remerges. Journal of Usability Studies (JUS), 15 (2). pp. 63-70. ISSN 1931-3357

My Most Viewed

	Item title
1	Usability Diverges, Media Converges, Design Remerges	188	195
2	Understanding Aesthetics of Interaction: A Repertory Grid Study	146	0
3	New Process, New Vocabulary: Axiofact = A_tefact + Memoranda	145	3
4	Worth-focused Design: Approaches, Contexts and Case Studies, Volume 2	135	2
5	Way Back to a Design Future: Aristotle’s Intellectual Excellences and their Implications for Designing	129	0
6	Integrating User-Centered Design in Agile Development	126	51
7	Social media resources for participative design research	120	0
8	Worth-focused Design: Balance, Integration and Generosity, Volume 1	118	2
9	Research for Designing for Emotions	112	1
10	Creative sprints: an unplanned broad agile evaluation and redesign process	102	86

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