Pete Lonsdale - Peter Lonsdale

Pete Lonsdale
• Experienced interdisciplinary researcher, software developer, and learning technologist.
• Worked in academic and e-­‐learning sector since 2000.
• Completed PhD in Educational Technology.
• Background in HCI, Psychology, and Intelligent Systems.
CURRENT POSITIONS
February
2010 -­‐
present
June 2010-­‐
present
2004 -­‐
present
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
September
2008 –
January 2010
Learning Technology and Computer Programming Officer
Keele University, School of Psychology
Specialist in learning technology for the School of Psychology, developing innovative practice and
bespoke installations of learning technology to support teaching and research activities for students
and staff. Developed bespoke software applications for research experiments. Provided first line-­‐
support to users of institutional VLE and active in University level initiatives to support
development in teaching and learning. Active member of Working Group on Student
Communications, Graduate Attributes Development Group, and Web Users Group.
Honorary Research Fellow
University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science
Collaborating with Professor Russell Beale on a range of HCI projects & consultancy activities.
Educational Technology and HCI Consultant (freelance, self-­‐employed)
Consultancy services specialising in research and development for Educational Technology and
Human-­‐Computer Interaction, providing academic reports, literature reviews, software design and
implementation, heuristic and field evaluations.
Research Fellow
University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science
Researcher/Developer on EU FP7 research project CASAM – Computer Aided Semantic Annotation of
Multimedia.
Developed web service application for handling and parsing incoming annotation data before passing
data on to system UI. Contributed to design of UI developed by project members. Actively
contributed to project management and organisation.
Teaching responsibilities:
• Tutor for Design & Media module (Level 1)
2006-­‐2008 PhD Educational Technology (award pending)
University of Nottingham, Learning Sciences Research Institute
See details below in Education.

PREVIOUS POSITIONS (CONTINUED)
2006
April-­‐
October
E-Learning Developer
National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services, Nottingham
Member of Learning Gateway technical team, responsible for supporting and maintaining the
College’s learning management system, including 2 nd line telephone & email support dealing with
programme participants, building web pages to support programme administration, database
administration and maintenance (MS SQL Server) and developing new solutions for delivery of
online materials.
2005-­‐2006 Research Fellow
University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science
Researcher on EU Kaleidoscope-­‐funded project reviewing use of mobile technologies for informal
science learning. Worked on literature review of relevant research and studies, organised
workshops, developed grant proposals, and contributed to teaching of CS.
Teaching responsibilities:
• Developed and delivered lectures on Java Servlets and Web Services (Level 2)
• Developed and delivered module on Human-­‐Computer Interaction (Level 2)
2002-­‐2005 Research Fellow
University of Birmingham, Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning
Researcher/developer on FP5 EU project MOBIlearn, exploring next-­‐generation tools, techniques,
and evaluation for mobile learning systems. Developed a generic context-­‐awareness architecture
that provided context-­‐sensitive content selection for a bespoke mobile learning delivery platform
developed by EU project partners. Work included design and implementation of software system in
Java, interacting with components written for other platforms using Web Services, and user studies
testing the system in the field with location-­‐tracking technologies.
Teaching responsibilities:
• Lab demonstrator on POP-­‐11 Artificial Intelligence programming module (Level 2)
• Lectured on Human-­‐Computer Interaction (Level 2)
2000-­‐2002 Research Assistant
University of Nottingham, School of Psychology
Researcher on EU FP5 project Eye-2-Eye, running empirical trials to evaluate a range of real-­‐time
communication technologies. Work included designing, running, and writing up user studies of
communication systems using task-­‐based evaluation methods.
Teaching responsibilities:
• Tutor for Artificial Intelligence (Level 1)
• Tutor for Cognitive Psychology (Level 1)
• Demonstrator for Cognitive Ergonomics (Level 1)

EDUCATION
2006-­‐2010 PhD Educational Technology
University of Nottingham, Learning Sciences Research Institute
(viva completed March 2010, corrections submitted Jan 2011, award pending)
Thesis: “Design and evaluation of mobile games to support active and reflective learning outdoors”
Research comprised design and development of software platform for creating & deploying mobile
games to handheld devices, followed by field-­‐based evaluation of games designed using the software
platform, using a grounded theory approach.
Examiners:
Professor Angela McFarlane, School of Education, University of Bristol,
Professor Steve Benford, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.
Supervisor:
Professor Mike Sharples, School of Education.
1998-­‐1999 MSc Intelligent Systems
University of Nottingham, School of Psychology
Included programming cognitive models using the Soar cognitive modelling architecture and Tcl/Tk
for user interface interaction and design, also POP-­‐11 for natural language processing and CLIPS for
expert system development.
Thesis: “Soar/Tcl-­‐PM: Extending the Soar architecture to include a widely applicable virtual eye and
hand”
1994-­‐1998 BSc Psychology (Hons: 2:1)
University of Edinburgh
AWARDS & GRANTS
Included two years of Artificial Intelligence including AI techniques, algorithms, and programming in
Prolog and CLIPS.
Thesis: “Comparing the development of user mental models of system operation with differential
training materials”
2010 Awarded Teaching Innovation grant of £600 by Learning Development Unit, Keele University, for
project exploring use of text messaging to enhance communications with students and develop
interactive learning activities.
2006 Awarded PhD studentship at Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham: full fees
plus stipend of £12000 for two years.
1999 Awarded MSc studentship at School of Psychology, University of Nottingham: full fees plus stipend of
£5000 for one year.

TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Operating systems: expert user of Mac and Windows, and familiar with Linux/Unix.
• Software development: Visual Studio, C# and Microsoft .NET (including Compact Framework for development on
mobile devices), NetBeans, Eclipse, Java, XML, Web Services, Adobe Flash and Flex/FlashBuilder, SQL Server,
MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript, ColdFusion.
• Web design: expert user of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Visual Studio.
• Artificial Intelligence programming: Prolog, Expert Systems, CLIPS, POP-­‐11.
• Research analsysis software: SPSS, Nvivo.
• AV systems: familiar with digital video recording equipment, and editing software including Adobe Premiere and
iMovie, and experienced with AV, multimedia, and video conferencing systems.
• Other: expert user of Microsoft Office suite.
CONSULTANCY
I have carried out consultancy work on a range of projects since 2004, including:
• Co-­‐authored a literature review of mobile technologies and learning, commissioned by Nesta Futurelab.
• Attended the Microsoft Mobile Learning Summit, a commissioned advisory group for Microsoft on the use of
mobile learning technologies.
• Consulted on design and carried out field studies for MyArtSpace/OOKL project, funded by Culture Online
(Department for Culture, Media and Sport).
• Worked as a software developer to build working demonstrator of mobile system for language learning, using a
mixture of interactive text and games, funded by Sharp Labs of Europe.
• Conducted heuristic evaluations of web portals for delivering e-­‐learning materials,
commissioned by the Welsh Assembly and Vitae.ac.uk.
• Developed a logistics simulator for Intier Automotive.
• Produced reports on learning spaces for the JISC e-spaces project at University of Birmingham.
• Developed an online product selection tool for GDM Coolers.
REFEREES
Professor Michael Murray (Head of School)
School of Psychology
Keele University
Keele
Staffordshire
ST5 5BG
Current employer
Bob Hendley
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT
Previous employer
Professor Russell Beale
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham
B15 2TT
rxb@cs.bham.ac.uk
Previous employer
Professor Mike Sharples
Learning Sciences Research Institute
University of Nottingham
Jubilee Campus
Nottingham
NG8 1BB
Mike.sharples@nottingham.ac.uk
Previous employer (at University of Birmingham)
PhD supervisor (at University of Nottingham)

PUBLICATIONS
Journal Articles
Vavoula, G., Sharples, M., Rudman, P., Meek, J., and Lonsdale, P. (2009). Myartspace: Design and evaluation of support for
learning with multimedia phones between classrooms and museums: Computers & Education 53: 286-­‐299.
Vavoula, G., Sharples, M., Lonsdale, P., Rudman, P., and Meek, J. (2007). "Learning bridges: a role for mobile technologies in
education." Educational Technology (May-­‐June 2007), 33-­‐37.
Conference Papers
Apostolikas, G., Spiliotopoulos, D., Georgousopoulos, C., Möller, R., Hendley, R., Petridis, S., Giannakopoulos, T., Koutsokeras,
M., Papantoniou, K., Tsatsaronis, G., Paliouras, G., Akrivas, G., Gatos, B., Ntirogiannis, K., Perantonis, S., Zavitsanos, I.,
Karkaletsis, V., Gries, O., Nafissi, A., Rosenfeld, M., Sokolski, K., Wessel, M., Bowers, C., Byrne, W., Melhuish, J.,
Lonsdale, P., Creed, C., Pinder, C., Beale, R., Sarris, N., Vasiliou, C., and Ramfos, A. (2009). CASAM: A prototype system
for computer-­‐aided semantic annotation of multimedia. Proceedings of SAMT 2009 - 4th International Conference on
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies. Graz, Austria, Springer, LNCS.
Beale, R. and Lonsdale, P. (2004). Engaging larger HCI classes with a mixture of methods and resources. In Proceedings of
HCI Educators' Workshop, Preston, UK, LTSN.
Beale, R. and Lonsdale, P. (2004). Mobile Context Aware Systems: the intelligence to support tasks and effectively utilise
resources. In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2004.
Bowers, C., Byrne, W., Melhuish, J., Lonsdale, P., Creed, C., Pinder, C., Beale, H., and Hendley, R. (2009). Interaction Issues in
Computer Aided Semantic Annotation of Multimedia. Proceedings of SAMT 2009 - 4th International Conference on
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies. Graz, Austria, Springer, LNCS. 2009.
Byrne, W., Lonsdale, P., Sharples, M., Baber, C., and Arvanitis, T. (2004). Determining location in context-­‐aware mobile
learning. In Proceedings of MLEARN 2004, Bracciano, Rome, LSDA.
Chan, T., Sharples, M., Vavoula, G., and Lonsdale, P. (2003). Educational metadata for mobile learning. In Proceedings of
Second IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education.
Lonsdale, P., Baber, C., and Sharples, M. (2004). Engaging learners with everyday technology: a participatory simulation
using mobile phones. Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004. Berlin, Springer. 3160/2004.
Lonsdale, P., Baber, C., Sharples, M., and Arvanitis, T. N. (2003). A context-­‐awareness architecture for facilitating mobile
learning. In Proceedings of MLEARN 2003: learning with mobile devices, London, UK, Learning and Skills Development
Agency.
Lonsdale, P., Barber, C., Sharples, M., Byrne, W., Arvanitis, T., Brundell, P., and Beale, R. (2004). Context awareness for
MOBIlearn: creating an engaging learning experience in an art museum. Proceedings of MLEARN 2004. E. Murelli, G.
Da Bormida and C. Alborghetti (Eds.). Odescalchi Castle, Lake Bracciano, Rome, Italy, CRATOS.
Lonsdale, P. and Beale, R. (2004). Towards a dynamic process model of context. To appear in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2004
workshop on Advanced Context Modeling, Reasoning and Management.
Lonsdale, P., Beale, R., and Byrne, W. (2005). Using context awareness to enhance visitor engagement in a gallery space.
People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture. Proceedings of HCI 2005. T. McEwan, J. Gulliksen and D. Benyon (Eds.).
London, Springer.
Lonsdale, P., Byrne, W., Beale, R., Sharples, M., and Baber, C. (2004). Spatial and context awareness for mobile learning in a
museum. KAL CSCL Workshop on 'Spatial Awareness and Collaboration'.
Lonsdale, P., Sharples, M., and O'Malley, C. (2007). Exploring physical, mobile learning for school children. Proceedings of
ALT-C 2007. Nottingham.
Lonsdale, P. R. and Ritter, F. E. (2000). Soar/Tcl-­‐PM: Extending the Soar architecture to include a widely applicable virtual
eye and hand. Proceedings of ICCM2000. Groningen, NL: 202-­‐209.
O'Malley, C., Brundell, P., Lonsdale, P., Brooks, P., Asting, T., Heim, J., Schliemann, T., Skjetne, J., Hestnes, B., Hamnes, K.,
Heiestad, S., Nilsen, S., Ulseth, T., Frowein, H., and Aaby, C. (2001). Eye-­‐2-­‐Eye: Fitness for purpose of person-­‐person
communication technologies. In Proceedings of International Conference on Media Futures, Florence, AEI.

O'Malley, C., Brundell, P., Lonsdale, P. R., Brooks, P., Schliemann, T., Hestnes, B., Frowein, H., and Aaby, C. (2001). Eye-­‐2-­‐Eye:
Fitness for purpose of person-­‐person communication technologies. In Proceedings of Human Factors in
Telecommunication, Bergen, NO.
Sharples, M., Lonsdale, P., Meek, J., Rudman, P., and Vavoula, G. (2007). An evaluation of myartspace. Proceedings of 6th
Annual Conference on Mobile Learning, mlearn 2007.
Vavoula, G., Meek, J., Sharples, M., Lonsdale, P., and Rudman, P. (2006). A lifecycle approach to evaluating MyArtSpace.
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop of Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE
2006). S. Hsi, Kinshuk, T. Chan and D. Sampson (Eds.). Athens, Greece, IEEE Computer Society: 18-­‐22.
Vavoula, G., Sharples, M., Rudman, P., Meek, J., Lonsdale, P., and Philips, D. (2006). Museum explorations in physical,
personal, and virtual space through MyArtSpace. Proceedings of mLearn 2006 conference, Athabasca University: 187-­‐
188.
Book Chapters
Rudman, P., Sharples, M., Lonsdale, P., Vavoula, G., and Meek, J. (2008). Cross-­‐Context Learning. Digital Technologies and
the Museum Experience. L. Tallon and K. Walker (Eds.). Lanham, MD, AltaMira Press: 147-­‐166.
Commissioned Reports
Naismith, L., Lonsdale, P., Vavoula, G., and Sharples, M. (2004). Mobile Technologies and Learning. (report commissioned
by NESTA FutureLab), NESTA FutureLab.
Lonsdale, P. and Vavoula, G. (2004). Report on research into technologies that could influence the design of learning
spaces. Report prepared for JISC-­‐funded e-­‐spaces project at the University of Birmingham.
Other Publications
Beale, R., Lonsdale, P., and Sharples, M. (2004). "Models for mobile context awareness." AISB Quarterly, 117.