Pete Lonsdale - Peter Lonsdale
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<strong>Pete</strong> <strong>Lonsdale</strong><br />
• Experienced interdisciplinary researcher, software developer, and learning technologist.<br />
• Worked in academic and e-‐learning sector since 2000.<br />
• Completed PhD in Educational Technology.<br />
• Background in HCI, Psychology, and Intelligent Systems.<br />
CURRENT POSITIONS<br />
February<br />
2010 -‐<br />
present<br />
June 2010-‐<br />
present<br />
2004 -‐<br />
present<br />
PREVIOUS POSITIONS<br />
September<br />
2008 –<br />
January 2010<br />
Learning Technology and Computer Programming Officer<br />
Keele University, School of Psychology<br />
Specialist in learning technology for the School of Psychology, developing innovative practice and<br />
bespoke installations of learning technology to support teaching and research activities for students<br />
and staff. Developed bespoke software applications for research experiments. Provided first line-‐<br />
support to users of institutional VLE and active in University level initiatives to support<br />
development in teaching and learning. Active member of Working Group on Student<br />
Communications, Graduate Attributes Development Group, and Web Users Group.<br />
Honorary Research Fellow<br />
University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science<br />
Collaborating with Professor Russell Beale on a range of HCI projects & consultancy activities.<br />
Educational Technology and HCI Consultant (freelance, self-‐employed)<br />
Consultancy services specialising in research and development for Educational Technology and<br />
Human-‐Computer Interaction, providing academic reports, literature reviews, software design and<br />
implementation, heuristic and field evaluations.<br />
Research Fellow<br />
University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science<br />
Researcher/Developer on EU FP7 research project CASAM – Computer Aided Semantic Annotation of<br />
Multimedia.<br />
Developed web service application for handling and parsing incoming annotation data before passing<br />
data on to system UI. Contributed to design of UI developed by project members. Actively<br />
contributed to project management and organisation.<br />
Teaching responsibilities:<br />
• Tutor for Design & Media module (Level 1)<br />
2006-‐2008 PhD Educational Technology (award pending)<br />
University of Nottingham, Learning Sciences Research Institute<br />
See details below in Education.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS (CONTINUED)<br />
2006<br />
April-‐<br />
October<br />
E-Learning Developer<br />
National College for Leadership of Schools and Children’s Services, Nottingham<br />
Member of Learning Gateway technical team, responsible for supporting and maintaining the<br />
College’s learning management system, including 2 nd line telephone & email support dealing with<br />
programme participants, building web pages to support programme administration, database<br />
administration and maintenance (MS SQL Server) and developing new solutions for delivery of<br />
online materials.<br />
2005-‐2006 Research Fellow<br />
University of Birmingham, School of Computer Science<br />
Researcher on EU Kaleidoscope-‐funded project reviewing use of mobile technologies for informal<br />
science learning. Worked on literature review of relevant research and studies, organised<br />
workshops, developed grant proposals, and contributed to teaching of CS.<br />
Teaching responsibilities:<br />
• Developed and delivered lectures on Java Servlets and Web Services (Level 2)<br />
• Developed and delivered module on Human-‐Computer Interaction (Level 2)<br />
2002-‐2005 Research Fellow<br />
University of Birmingham, Electronic, Electrical and Computer Engineering<br />
Centre for Educational Technology and Distance Learning<br />
Researcher/developer on FP5 EU project MOBIlearn, exploring next-‐generation tools, techniques,<br />
and evaluation for mobile learning systems. Developed a generic context-‐awareness architecture<br />
that provided context-‐sensitive content selection for a bespoke mobile learning delivery platform<br />
developed by EU project partners. Work included design and implementation of software system in<br />
Java, interacting with components written for other platforms using Web Services, and user studies<br />
testing the system in the field with location-‐tracking technologies.<br />
Teaching responsibilities:<br />
• Lab demonstrator on POP-‐11 Artificial Intelligence programming module (Level 2)<br />
• Lectured on Human-‐Computer Interaction (Level 2)<br />
2000-‐2002 Research Assistant<br />
University of Nottingham, School of Psychology<br />
Researcher on EU FP5 project Eye-2-Eye, running empirical trials to evaluate a range of real-‐time<br />
communication technologies. Work included designing, running, and writing up user studies of<br />
communication systems using task-‐based evaluation methods.<br />
Teaching responsibilities:<br />
• Tutor for Artificial Intelligence (Level 1)<br />
• Tutor for Cognitive Psychology (Level 1)<br />
• Demonstrator for Cognitive Ergonomics (Level 1)
EDUCATION<br />
2006-‐2010 PhD Educational Technology<br />
University of Nottingham, Learning Sciences Research Institute<br />
(viva completed March 2010, corrections submitted Jan 2011, award pending)<br />
Thesis: “Design and evaluation of mobile games to support active and reflective learning outdoors”<br />
Research comprised design and development of software platform for creating & deploying mobile<br />
games to handheld devices, followed by field-‐based evaluation of games designed using the software<br />
platform, using a grounded theory approach.<br />
Examiners:<br />
Professor Angela McFarlane, School of Education, University of Bristol,<br />
Professor Steve Benford, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham.<br />
Supervisor:<br />
Professor Mike Sharples, School of Education.<br />
1998-‐1999 MSc Intelligent Systems<br />
University of Nottingham, School of Psychology<br />
Included programming cognitive models using the Soar cognitive modelling architecture and Tcl/Tk<br />
for user interface interaction and design, also POP-‐11 for natural language processing and CLIPS for<br />
expert system development.<br />
Thesis: “Soar/Tcl-‐PM: Extending the Soar architecture to include a widely applicable virtual eye and<br />
hand”<br />
1994-‐1998 BSc Psychology (Hons: 2:1)<br />
University of Edinburgh<br />
AWARDS & GRANTS<br />
Included two years of Artificial Intelligence including AI techniques, algorithms, and programming in<br />
Prolog and CLIPS.<br />
Thesis: “Comparing the development of user mental models of system operation with differential<br />
training materials”<br />
2010 Awarded Teaching Innovation grant of £600 by Learning Development Unit, Keele University, for<br />
project exploring use of text messaging to enhance communications with students and develop<br />
interactive learning activities.<br />
2006 Awarded PhD studentship at Learning Sciences Research Institute, University of Nottingham: full fees<br />
plus stipend of £12000 for two years.<br />
1999 Awarded MSc studentship at School of Psychology, University of Nottingham: full fees plus stipend of<br />
£5000 for one year.
TECHNICAL SKILLS<br />
• Operating systems: expert user of Mac and Windows, and familiar with Linux/Unix.<br />
• Software development: Visual Studio, C# and Microsoft .NET (including Compact Framework for development on<br />
mobile devices), NetBeans, Eclipse, Java, XML, Web Services, Adobe Flash and Flex/FlashBuilder, SQL Server,<br />
MySQL, PHP, JavaScript, ActionScript, ColdFusion.<br />
• Web design: expert user of Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Photoshop, Visual Studio.<br />
• Artificial Intelligence programming: Prolog, Expert Systems, CLIPS, POP-‐11.<br />
• Research analsysis software: SPSS, Nvivo.<br />
• AV systems: familiar with digital video recording equipment, and editing software including Adobe Premiere and<br />
iMovie, and experienced with AV, multimedia, and video conferencing systems.<br />
• Other: expert user of Microsoft Office suite.<br />
CONSULTANCY<br />
I have carried out consultancy work on a range of projects since 2004, including:<br />
• Co-‐authored a literature review of mobile technologies and learning, commissioned by Nesta Futurelab.<br />
• Attended the Microsoft Mobile Learning Summit, a commissioned advisory group for Microsoft on the use of<br />
mobile learning technologies.<br />
• Consulted on design and carried out field studies for MyArtSpace/OOKL project, funded by Culture Online<br />
(Department for Culture, Media and Sport).<br />
• Worked as a software developer to build working demonstrator of mobile system for language learning, using a<br />
mixture of interactive text and games, funded by Sharp Labs of Europe.<br />
• Conducted heuristic evaluations of web portals for delivering e-‐learning materials,<br />
commissioned by the Welsh Assembly and Vitae.ac.uk.<br />
• Developed a logistics simulator for Intier Automotive.<br />
• Produced reports on learning spaces for the JISC e-spaces project at University of Birmingham.<br />
• Developed an online product selection tool for GDM Coolers.<br />
REFEREES<br />
Professor Michael Murray (Head of School)<br />
School of Psychology<br />
Keele University<br />
Keele<br />
Staffordshire<br />
ST5 5BG<br />
Current employer<br />
Bob Hendley<br />
School of Computer Science<br />
University of Birmingham<br />
Birmingham<br />
B15 2TT<br />
Previous employer<br />
Professor Russell Beale<br />
School of Computer Science<br />
University of Birmingham<br />
Birmingham<br />
B15 2TT<br />
rxb@cs.bham.ac.uk<br />
Previous employer<br />
Professor Mike Sharples<br />
Learning Sciences Research Institute<br />
University of Nottingham<br />
Jubilee Campus<br />
Nottingham<br />
NG8 1BB<br />
Mike.sharples@nottingham.ac.uk<br />
Previous employer (at University of Birmingham)<br />
PhD supervisor (at University of Nottingham)
PUBLICATIONS<br />
Journal Articles<br />
Vavoula, G., Sharples, M., Rudman, P., Meek, J., and <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. (2009). Myartspace: Design and evaluation of support for<br />
learning with multimedia phones between classrooms and museums: Computers & Education 53: 286-‐299.<br />
Vavoula, G., Sharples, M., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Rudman, P., and Meek, J. (2007). "Learning bridges: a role for mobile technologies in<br />
education." Educational Technology (May-‐June 2007), 33-‐37.<br />
Conference Papers<br />
Apostolikas, G., Spiliotopoulos, D., Georgousopoulos, C., Möller, R., Hendley, R., Petridis, S., Giannakopoulos, T., Koutsokeras,<br />
M., Papantoniou, K., Tsatsaronis, G., Paliouras, G., Akrivas, G., Gatos, B., Ntirogiannis, K., Perantonis, S., Zavitsanos, I.,<br />
Karkaletsis, V., Gries, O., Nafissi, A., Rosenfeld, M., Sokolski, K., Wessel, M., Bowers, C., Byrne, W., Melhuish, J.,<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Creed, C., Pinder, C., Beale, R., Sarris, N., Vasiliou, C., and Ramfos, A. (2009). CASAM: A prototype system<br />
for computer-‐aided semantic annotation of multimedia. Proceedings of SAMT 2009 - 4th International Conference on<br />
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies. Graz, Austria, Springer, LNCS.<br />
Beale, R. and <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. (2004). Engaging larger HCI classes with a mixture of methods and resources. In Proceedings of<br />
HCI Educators' Workshop, Preston, UK, LTSN.<br />
Beale, R. and <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. (2004). Mobile Context Aware Systems: the intelligence to support tasks and effectively utilise<br />
resources. In Proceedings of MobileHCI 2004.<br />
Bowers, C., Byrne, W., Melhuish, J., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Creed, C., Pinder, C., Beale, H., and Hendley, R. (2009). Interaction Issues in<br />
Computer Aided Semantic Annotation of Multimedia. Proceedings of SAMT 2009 - 4th International Conference on<br />
Semantic and Digital Media Technologies. Graz, Austria, Springer, LNCS. 2009.<br />
Byrne, W., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Sharples, M., Baber, C., and Arvanitis, T. (2004). Determining location in context-‐aware mobile<br />
learning. In Proceedings of MLEARN 2004, Bracciano, Rome, LSDA.<br />
Chan, T., Sharples, M., Vavoula, G., and <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. (2003). Educational metadata for mobile learning. In Proceedings of<br />
Second IEEE Workshop on Wireless and Mobile Technologies in Education.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Baber, C., and Sharples, M. (2004). Engaging learners with everyday technology: a participatory simulation<br />
using mobile phones. Mobile Human-Computer Interaction - MobileHCI 2004. Berlin, Springer. 3160/2004.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Baber, C., Sharples, M., and Arvanitis, T. N. (2003). A context-‐awareness architecture for facilitating mobile<br />
learning. In Proceedings of MLEARN 2003: learning with mobile devices, London, UK, Learning and Skills Development<br />
Agency.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Barber, C., Sharples, M., Byrne, W., Arvanitis, T., Brundell, P., and Beale, R. (2004). Context awareness for<br />
MOBIlearn: creating an engaging learning experience in an art museum. Proceedings of MLEARN 2004. E. Murelli, G.<br />
Da Bormida and C. Alborghetti (Eds.). Odescalchi Castle, Lake Bracciano, Rome, Italy, CRATOS.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. and Beale, R. (2004). Towards a dynamic process model of context. To appear in Proceedings of Ubicomp 2004<br />
workshop on Advanced Context Modeling, Reasoning and Management.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Beale, R., and Byrne, W. (2005). Using context awareness to enhance visitor engagement in a gallery space.<br />
People and Computers XIX - The Bigger Picture. Proceedings of HCI 2005. T. McEwan, J. Gulliksen and D. Benyon (Eds.).<br />
London, Springer.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Byrne, W., Beale, R., Sharples, M., and Baber, C. (2004). Spatial and context awareness for mobile learning in a<br />
museum. KAL CSCL Workshop on 'Spatial Awareness and Collaboration'.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Sharples, M., and O'Malley, C. (2007). Exploring physical, mobile learning for school children. Proceedings of<br />
ALT-C 2007. Nottingham.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. R. and Ritter, F. E. (2000). Soar/Tcl-‐PM: Extending the Soar architecture to include a widely applicable virtual<br />
eye and hand. Proceedings of ICCM2000. Groningen, NL: 202-‐209.<br />
O'Malley, C., Brundell, P., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Brooks, P., Asting, T., Heim, J., Schliemann, T., Skjetne, J., Hestnes, B., Hamnes, K.,<br />
Heiestad, S., Nilsen, S., Ulseth, T., Frowein, H., and Aaby, C. (2001). Eye-‐2-‐Eye: Fitness for purpose of person-‐person<br />
communication technologies. In Proceedings of International Conference on Media Futures, Florence, AEI.
O'Malley, C., Brundell, P., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. R., Brooks, P., Schliemann, T., Hestnes, B., Frowein, H., and Aaby, C. (2001). Eye-‐2-‐Eye:<br />
Fitness for purpose of person-‐person communication technologies. In Proceedings of Human Factors in<br />
Telecommunication, Bergen, NO.<br />
Sharples, M., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Meek, J., Rudman, P., and Vavoula, G. (2007). An evaluation of myartspace. Proceedings of 6th<br />
Annual Conference on Mobile Learning, mlearn 2007.<br />
Vavoula, G., Meek, J., Sharples, M., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., and Rudman, P. (2006). A lifecycle approach to evaluating MyArtSpace.<br />
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop of Wireless, Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE<br />
2006). S. Hsi, Kinshuk, T. Chan and D. Sampson (Eds.). Athens, Greece, IEEE Computer Society: 18-‐22.<br />
Vavoula, G., Sharples, M., Rudman, P., Meek, J., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., and Philips, D. (2006). Museum explorations in physical,<br />
personal, and virtual space through MyArtSpace. Proceedings of mLearn 2006 conference, Athabasca University: 187-‐<br />
188.<br />
Book Chapters<br />
Rudman, P., Sharples, M., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Vavoula, G., and Meek, J. (2008). Cross-‐Context Learning. Digital Technologies and<br />
the Museum Experience. L. Tallon and K. Walker (Eds.). Lanham, MD, AltaMira Press: 147-‐166.<br />
Commissioned Reports<br />
Naismith, L., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., Vavoula, G., and Sharples, M. (2004). Mobile Technologies and Learning. (report commissioned<br />
by NESTA FutureLab), NESTA FutureLab.<br />
<strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P. and Vavoula, G. (2004). Report on research into technologies that could influence the design of learning<br />
spaces. Report prepared for JISC-‐funded e-‐spaces project at the University of Birmingham.<br />
Other Publications<br />
Beale, R., <strong>Lonsdale</strong>, P., and Sharples, M. (2004). "Models for mobile context awareness." AISB Quarterly, 117.