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Name: Kevin Walker
About:
  Research interests include museums, technology, informal science education and physical computing. Recent projects include VeSeL , e-Science Usability, MUSTEL, and personalised learning trails. Recently published the book Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media, co-edited with Loïc Tallon. I also design museum exhibits.
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Publications

Publications:

2009

Walker, K. Museer/Teknologi seminar  at London Knowledge Lab, 28 Oct 2009.

Underwood, J., Luckin, R., Smith, H., Walker K., Rowland, D., Fitzpatrick, G., Good, J., Benford, S. Reflections on Participatory Science for TELSci2.0. Science2.0 for TEL workshop at EC-TEL, 29 Sept - 2 Oct 2009, Nice, FR.

Kabashi, A.H., K. Walker, J. Underwood, N.Wirastuti,and J. Elmirghani. Wireless Sensing for Development: An Integrated Design Approach . 3rd International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies, Cardiff, UK, 15-18 Sept 2009.

Bradburne, J., K. Walker, L. Tallon, B.Vianna, I. Froes. (2009) Mobile and Global: Museum HandheldTechnologies From An International Perspective. Session at AAM conference, 2 May 2009.

Winters, N. and Walker, K. (2009) Village e-Science for Life . Africa Gathering, 25 Apr 2009, London.

Reynolds, R., C. Speight. and K. Walker. Bridging formal and informal learning using mobile digital museum trails . 3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium, 27 Mar 2009, London.

Walker, K., J. Underwood, R. Luckin, S. Camara, D. Orwa, M. Prodanovic,et al (2009) The Story of Silanga School: Exploring sustainabilityonline and on site . CAL'09 conference , 23-25 Mar 2009.

Smith, H., J. Underwood, G. Fitzpatrick, K. Walker, J. Good, R. Luckin,D. Rowland and S. Benford (2009) Designing p-Science: Participation, Learning & Technology. CAL'09 conference , 23-25 Mar 2009. *Best poster award.

Smith, H., J. Underwood, G. Fitzpatrick, K. Walker, J. Good, R. Luckin,D. Rowland and S. Benford (2009) Sustainability requirements for onlinescience communities and resources. CAL'09 conference , 23-25 Mar 2009.

Walker, K. Technologie de l'apprentissage humain dans les musées. Education, culture and leisure seminar, Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble , FR, 5 Mar 2009.

Walker, K. Overview of mobile learning in the cultural sector (2009) Keynote at Mobile Learning Conference , 26 Jan 2009, V&A, London.

 

2008

Walker, K. Designing experiences inside/out. Keynote at NODEM 08 , 3-5 Dec 2008, Rejkjavic.

Walker, K. Futurescape08 at London Knowledge Lab, 16-17 Oct 2008. Co-organiser and ran Embedded Technologies workshop.

Walker, K. V&A iGuides project evaluation.Centre for Excellence for Teaching and Learning through Design(Victoria & Albert Museum, Royal College of Art, RIBA, Univ. ofBrighton) 

Smith, H.C., J. Underwood, K. Walker, G. Fitzpatrick,R. Luckin, S. Benford, J. Good and D. Rowland. (2008) e-Science forLearning: Crossing the Boundaries between School Science and ResearchScience. UK e-Science Programme All Hands Meeting, Edinburgh, 8-11 Sept 2008.

Walker, K. Mobile audio capture in a learning ecology. 10th Intl. Conf. on HCI for Mobile Devices and Services, Amsterdam, 2-5 Sept 2008.

Tallon, L. and Walker, K. (Eds.) Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media. Alta Mira Press, publication date 28 Aug 2008.Download my chapter here (All rights reserved - contact publisher for permission to photocopy or reprint!)

Kayen, R., W.C. Steele, B. Collins and K. Walker. Google Earth mapping of damage from the Niigata-Ken-Chuetsu M6.6 earthquake of 16 July 2007. 6th Intl Conf on Case Histories in Geotechnical Engineering, Arlington, VA, US, 11-16 Aug 2008.

Walker, K., Kabashi, A. J. Abdelnour-Nocera, K. Ngugi, J. Underwood, J. Elmirghani and M. Prodanovic (2008) Interaction design for rural agricultural sensor networks . Intl Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software, Barcelona, ES, 6-10 Jul 2008.

Smith, H. J. Underwood, K. Walker, G. Fitzpatrick, R. Luckin, S.Benford, J. Good, and D. Rowland. Web 2.0 for schools e-Science: Ahands-on approach. 4th Intl Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester, UK, 18-20 June 2008.

Wyeth, P., Luckin, R., Ng, M., Fitzpatrick, G., Underwood, J., Good, J., Benford, S. and Walker, K. (2008) Learning through treasure hunting: The role of mobile devices . IADIS Mobile Learning Conference, Algarve, PT, 11-13 Apr 2008. [slides ]

Walker, K., J. Underwood, T.M. Waema, L. Dunckley, J. Abdelnour-Nocera, R. Luckin, C. Oyugi and S. Camara. A resource kit for participatory socio-technical design in rural Kenya . Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, Florence, IT, 5-10 Apr 2008.

Winters, N., K. Walker and J. Underwood (2008) Fluid design and community development. CHI 2008, Florence, IT, 5-10 April 2008.

Walker, K. (2008) Technology-enhanced learning and the physical museum space. Workshop & Keynote at Danish museum education & communications conference. Copenhagen, DK, 25-27 Mar 2008.

Wirastuti, D., Luckin, R., Sheriff, R.E., Walker, K., Underwood, J.,and Dunckley, L. (2008) Development of a knowledge management systemintegrated with local communication channels and knowledge managementinitiatives for Kenyan rural farming. 5th Int'l Conf. on Wireless,Mobile and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education. Beijing, China, 23-26 Mar 2008.

Walker, K. (2008) Designing activity-centered mobile learning experiences. Context and collaboration in mobile learning. Wolverhampton, UK, 23 Jan 2008.

 

2007

Smith, H., K.H. Ng, K. Walker, J. Underwood, S. Heldt, G. Fitzpatrick,R. Luckin, J. Good, P. Wyeth, S. Benford. Reconstructing an InformalMobile Learning Experience with Multiple Data Streams. (2007) Research methods in informal and mobile learning. London, UK, 14 Dec 2007.

Pierroux, P., L. Bannon, V. Kaptelinin, T. Hall and K. Walker. (2007) A Framework for Designing for Visitors' Augmented Activities in Museums . ICHIM 07, Toronto, CN, 24-26 Oct 2007.

Walker, K. (2007) Narrative learning in games and informal settings (2007) Kaleidoscope Online Working Conference on Narrative Learning Environments, 27 Sept - 2 Oct, 2007

Designing human centred technologies for the developing world . Workshop at HCI 2007, Lancaster, UK

Walker, K. (2007) Visitors' voices: Personal narrative trails (2007) UK Museums Assn. conference Digital Dialogues: Using everyday technologies to personalise the visitor experience. V&A Museum, London, 15 June 2007.

Walker, K. (2007) Visitor-constructed personalized learning trails. Museums & the Web conference, San Francisco, 11-14 April 2007.

Walker, K., Boyle, T., Bradley, C., Laurillard, D., Neumann, T. andPearce, D. (2007) Introducing theory to practice in pedagogicalplanning. Part of the symposium Designing for Learning - revolution or evolution' CAL conference, Dublin, IE, 27 Mar 2007.

Walker, K. (2007) Mapping the landscape of mobile learning. Introduction to Big Issues in Mobile Learning. Kaleidoscope Mobile Learning SIG.

Walker, K. (2007) Structures for learning in World of Warcraft. Seminar paper delivered at Computer Games: Learning, meaning and method, London, 26 Jan. 2007.

 

2006

Walker, K. (2006) A method for creating collaborative mobile learning trails. Kaleidoscope Convergence Workshop, Intersecting and integrating collaborative-mobile-inquiry learning, Amsterdam, NL, 4-6 Dec. 2006.

Walker, K. (2006) Narrative and mobile learning in practice and theory. 2nd Kaleidoscope Workshop on Narrative and Learning Environments, Palermo, IT, 26-28 June 2006.

Walker, K. (2006) Screens in the museum landscape: A visual essay. In Visual Communication 5(1) (June 2006), 189-198.

Walker, K. (2006) Story structures: Building narrative trails in museums In Dettori, G., Giannetti, T., Paiva, A. and Vaz, A. (Eds.) Technology-mediated narrative environments for learning, 103-114. Sense Publications.

 

2005

Walker, K. (2005) Educational Podcasting: Learner-constructed audio trails in museums. Workshop at Handheld Learning 2005, London, UK.

Winters, N., Walker, K and Roussos, G. (2005) Facilitating learning in an intelligent environment. IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments, Colchester, UK, July 2005.

Learning in technology-enhanced environments (2005) CAL Virtual Learning Conference, Bristol, UK, 4-6 April, 2005.

Walker, K. and Winters, N. (2005) Learning with "non-interactive" technology. Technology and Learning Research Symposium, New York, NY, 1-2 April 2005.

 

2004 and back

Meecham, P., Walker, K., Ollerton, D. and Carnell, E. (2004) Hub Museums' Final Report: Evaluating the Schools provision and the delivery of effective learning the four London Hub Museums. Research report commissioned by MLA, London. [slides ]

Walker, K. (2004) Learning on Location with Cinematic Narratives. [poster] Proceedings of ACM Multimedia 2004.

Walker, K. (2003) An Interactive Poster Exhibit Puts Visitors in the Picture, in Real Time. Proceedings of CHI2003, Orlando, US (PDF, 172K)

Walker, K. (2002) Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts. Curator, the Museum Journal, 45(1) Oct 2002.

Walker, K. (2001) The Museum as "Information Architecture" Spectra, the Journal of the Museum Computer Network.

Earlier writings on anthropology

Earlier writings on journalism & media

LKL News

Kevin Walker is featured in the following news items:
 
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Monday, 20 March 2006Harnessing the Power of e-Learning in HE: Video
Tuesday, 28 February 2006LKL Live Webcast

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LKL Research

Kevin Walker is participating in the following LKL research projects:
 
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VESEL: Village e-science for Life

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