Dr. Jennifer G. Sheridan is a Software Developer/Research Officer in the London Knowledge Lab who is developing software and hardware for next generation interactive learning and play. Currently, she is developing applications and devices for the "Children's Playground Games and Songs in the New Media Age" project (PI Andrew Burn - funded by the AHRC Beyond Text program).

Jennifer holds a PhD in Computer Science from Lancaster University (Digital Live Art: Mediating Wittingness in Playful Arenas), and MS in Human-Computer Interaction from the Georgia Institute of Technology where her collaborative research won a Gold Award of Excellence.

She has published widely in the fields of HCI, mobile technologies and tangible interaction with particular emphasis on designing technologies that support "communal engagement" and participatory interaction in unanticipated performance spaces. Her interest is in the intersection of live art, computing and human-computer interaction and in designing technologies to support transitions from observing to participating to performing. She is Director and Founder of the Digital Live Art conference series, is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, as well as several program committees.

Before joining the London Knowledge Lab, Jennifer co-founded BigDog Interactive, a small company of programmers and artists who create bespoke code for interactive installations and performance events. BigDog Interactive is a preferred supplier of the London Science Museum and is an industrial partner on the £5 million Media Arts and Technology Training Centre. BigDog continues to work in both industry and academia providing technical expertise for innovative projects, diverse participants and users.

Previous projects include:

• Designing tangibles for learning (EPSRC): For the project, Jennifer designed and built the Institute of Education's first DIY interactive surface using infrared technology, reacTIVision and Processing. The interactive surface was then tested with school children to explore how tangible technologies can assist young students in understanding basic science concepts.
• Surface Tension (EPSRC, UbiComp Grand Challenge): A one-day event held at the Science Museum's Dana Centre brought together researchers exploring interactive and multi-touch surfaces and sensing.
• Early Career Exchange with Floyd Mueller (EPSRC, UbiComp Grand Challenge): A collaboration with a leading expert on exertion interfaces and learning.

For all publications, see: www.jennifersheridan.com

2010

Sheridan, J.G. and Mueller, F. Fostering Kinesthetic Literacy through Exertion in Whole Body Interaction. Proceedings of the Workshop on Whole Body Interaction. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM Press, April 2010. [In Press]

England, D., Sheridan, J.G., and Crane, B. Whole Body Interaction. Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ACM Press, April 2010. [In Press]

2009

Sheridan, J.G., Diamond, S. and Rosner, D. C&C09 Art Exhibition and Live Performances. In Proceeding of the 7th ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition. October 27-30th, 2009, Berkeley, CA USA. ISBN: 978-1-60558-865-0

Sheridan, J.G., Tompkin, J., Maciel, A. and Roussos, G. DIY Design Process for Interactive Surfaces. In People and Computers XXIII - Celebrating People and Technology. Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Human Computer Interaction 09 (HCI '09), 1-5 September, 2009, Cambridge, UK. pp. 485-493. ISSN 1477-9358

Sheridan, J.G., Price, S. and Pontual-Falcão, T. Using Wii Remotes as Tangible Exertion Interfaces for Exploring Action-Representation Relationships. In Proceedings of Whole Body Interaction, 27th International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '09), 4 April, 2009, Boston, USA. ISBN: 978-1-60558-247-4

Bayliss, A., Hales, D., Palmer, S. and Sheridan, J.G. (Re)searching through play: play as a framework and methodology for collaborative design process. International Journal of Arts and Technology, Vol. 2, Nos. 1/2, 2009. (Authors listed alphabetically). pp. 5-21. ISSN: 1754-8853

Price, S., Pontual-Falcão, T., Sheridan, J.G. and Roussos, G. The effect of representation location on interaction in a tangible learning environment. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction, Cambridge, UK.

Price, S. and Sheridan, J. G. Using sensory augmentation to investigate the role of action in cognition. Position paper. Key Issues in Sensory Augmentation. March 26 - 27, 2009, University of Sussex, Brighton.

Pontual-Falcão, T., Price, S. and Sheridan, J.G. Extending concepts of engagement in tangible environments. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Tangibles for Children, CHI '09, 4 April, 2009, Boston, USA. Brighton.

2008

Ballagas, R., Rohs, M., Sheridan, J.G. and Bouchers, J. The Design Space of Ubiquitous Mobile Input. In Handbook of Research on User Interface Design and Evaluation for Mobile Technology, Joanna Lumsden (Ed.) National Research Council of Canada. IGI Global. 2008. ISBN 978-1-59904-871-0.

Sheridan, J.G. and Bryan-Kinns, N. Designing for performative tangible interaction. International Journal of Arts and Technology. Special Issue on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, (2008) pp. 288-308. ISSN: 1754-8853

Sheridan, J.G., Bryan-Kinns, N. and Lloyd, T. (re)Actor3: The ThirdInternational Conference on Digital Live Art. Interfaces Magazine.December 2008.

Sheridan, J.G. and Bayliss, A. (re)actor2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art'Bad Girls, Gadgets and Guerrilla Performance.' International Journalof Performance Arts and Digital Media,Vol.4, Nos. 1, (2008), pp. 3-6. ISSN: 1479-4713

Price, S., Sheridan, J.G., Pontual-Falcão, T. and Roussos, G. Towards a Framework for Investigating Tangible Environments for Learning. International Journal of Arts and Technology. Special Issue on Tangible and Embedded Interaction. Vol.1, Nos. 3/4, (2008), pp. 351-368. ISSN: 1754-8853

Pontual-Falcão, T., Price, S., Sheridan, J.G. and Roussos, G. Representation relationships in tangible environments: Emergent themes for collaborative interaction. Shareable Interfaces for Learning Workshop. Sussex University Creativity Zone, 11-12 Sept. 2008.

2007

Sheridan,J.G., Bryan-Kinns, N. and Bayliss, A. (2007). Encouraging Witting Participation and Performance in Digital Live Art. 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference, 3-7 September, Lancaster, UK, pp. 13-23. ISBN 978-1-902505-94-7

Sheridan, J.G., Bayliss, A. and Bryan-Kinns, N. (2007). The interior life of iPoi: objects that entice witting transitions in performative behaviour. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, Intellect: Bristol.

Sheridan, J.G., Bayliss A. and Bryan-Kinns, N. (2007). iPOI. InProceedings of the First International Symposium on Culture, Creativityand Interaction Design, 12 September,2006, Queen Mary, University ofLondon, UK.

Bryan-Kinns, N. and Sheridan, J. (2007) Supporting Mutual Engagement inCreative Collaboration. Workshop on Tools in Support of CreativeCollaboration, 6th Creativity and Cognition Conference, 13 June,Washington, USA.

2006

Sheridan, J.G. (2006) Digital Live Art: Mediating Wittingness in Playful Arenas. PhD Thesis. Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom.

Ballagas, R., Rohs, M., Sheridan, J.G. and Borchers, J. (2006) The Smart Phone: A Ubiquitous Input Device. IEEE Journal on Pervasive Computing, 5(1), Jan-March, pp. 70-77.

Sheridan, J. and Kortuem, G. (2006) Affordance-based Design of Physical Interfaces for Ubiquitous Computing Environments. In Proceedings of the 2006 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS 2006) COEX, 11-13 October, Seoul, Korea.

Sheridan, J.G. and Bayliss, A. (2006). (re)Actor: The First International Conference on Digital Live Art. In Proceedings of HCI 2006, B. Fields, T. Stockman, L.Valgerour Nickerson, P. Healey Eds., ACM Press, Vol.2, pp. 257-259, 11-15 September, London, UK. ISSN 1470-5559

Benford, S., Crabtree, A., Reeves, S., Flintham, M., Drozd, A., Sheridan, J.G. and Dix,A. (2006) The frame of the game: Blurring the boundary between fiction and reality in mobile experiences. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), pp. 427-436, ACM Press, 22-27 April, Montreal, Canada.

Storz, O., Friday, A., Davies, N., Finney, J., Sas, C. and Sheridan, J.G. (2006) Public Ubiquitous Computing Systems: Lessons from the e-Campus Display Deployments. IEEE Journal on Pervasive Computing. Special Issue on Real-World Deployment, 5(3), July-September, pp. 40-46.

2005

Sheridan, J.G. (2005) .:thePooch:. - Engagement through Computing Intimacies. In Proceedings of International Design and Engagability Conference (IDEC2), 19th British HCI Group Annual Conference, 5-9 September, Edinburgh, UK.

Cheverst, K., Dix, A., Fitton, D., Kray, C., Rouncefield, M., Sas, C., Saskus-Lagoudakis,G. and Sheridan, J.G. (2005) Exploring bluetooth based mobile phone interaction with the hermes photo display. In Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Human Computer Interaction with mobile devices and services (MobileHCI '05), September, Salzburg, Austria, ACM Press, pp 47-54.

Sheridan, J.G. and Dix, A. Extreme Prototyping: discount design for the experimental systems artisan. Submitted to HCI International, Las Vegas, July 22-27, 2005.

Dix, A., Sheridan, J.G., Reeves, S., Benford, S. and O'Malley, C. (2005) Formalising Performative Interaction. In Proceedings of the12th International Workshop on Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems (DSVIS), pp.15-25, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13-15 July, Newcastle, UK.

Ballagas, R., Rohs, M., Sheridan, J. and Borchers, J. (2005) Sweep and Point & Shoot: Phonecam-Based Interactions for Large Public Displays. In Proceedings of SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Extended Abstracts, pp.1200-1203, ACM Press, 2-7 April, New York, USA.

2004

Rohs, M., Sheridan, J.G. and Ballagas, R. (2004) Direct Manipulation Techniques for Large Screen Displays using Camera Phones. In Proceedings of 2nd International Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing Systems (UCS), Ubiquitous Computing Systems Group (UBI) of Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ), 8-9 November, Tokyo, Japan.

Sheridan, J.G., Dix, A., Lock, S. and Bayliss, A. (2004) Understanding Interaction in Ubiquitous Guerrilla Performances in Playful Arenas. S. In Fincher, P.Markopolous, D. Moore, & R. Ruddle (Eds.): In People and Computers XVIII-Design for Life: 18th British HCI Group Annual Conference, pp. 3-17,Springer-Verlag, 6-10 September, Leeds, UK. ISBN: 1-85233-900-4

2003

Sheridan, J.G., Short B.W., Kortuem, G., VanLaerhoven K. and Villar, N. (2003) Exploring Cube Affordance: Towards A Classification Of Non-Verbal Dynamics Of Physical Interfaces For Wearable Computing. In Proceedings of the IEE Eurowearable 2003,pp. 113-118, IEE Press. 4-5 September, Birmingham, UK.

Allanson, J., Kember, S., Lindsay, A., Lock, S., Peate, L.,Phillips, P. and Sheridan, J.G. (2003) Innovative Interactions at Lancaster University, In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference for Digital Technologies and Performance Arts, 27-29, Doncaster, UK.

Full list of publications available at: www.jennifersheridan.com