Professor David Frohlich
David Frohlich is Director of Digital World Research Centre at the University of Surrey and Professor of Interaction Design. He joined the Centre in January 2005 to establish a new research agenda on user-centred innovation in digital media technology. Current work includes a mixture of PhD and Research Council projects exploring a variety of new media futures relating to digital storytelling, personal media collections, and community news and arts. His most recent book with Risto Sarvas charts the history of domestic photography From snapshots to social media: The changing picture of domestic photography.
Prior to joining Digital World, David worked for 14 years as a senior research scientist at HP Labs, conducting user studies to identify requirements and test new concepts for mobile, domestic and photographic products. This allowed him to pursue ongoing research interests in tangible interfaces to computing, new media design, and the global digital divide. Some of this work was documented in two books entitled Audiophotography: Bringing photos to life with sounds and Contextual Innovation: Creative approaches to innovation in emerging markets. It also resulted in a variety of patent applications and innovations, most notably in the support of sound capture and playback in HPās digital photography products.
David has a PhD in psychology from the University of Sheffield and post-doctoral training in Conversation Analysis from the University of York. He also worked as a Human Factors Consultant and Research Psychologist, and held visiting positions at the Helen Hamlyn Research Centre, Royal College of Art, and the Department of Psychology, University of York. He is currently Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School and is founding editor of the international journal Personal and Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
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