[su_tabs][su_tab title=”About”]In 1999 Kieran completed a BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, at the Limavady College of Education, Derry. Following this he attended the Manchester Metropolitan University where he completed a BA Hons Degree in Contemporary Crafts. During this period Kieran has exhibited his work in London, Manchester, Wigan and Cheshire. Interested in the relationship between crafts and digital technologies Kieran went on to complete a Masters of Arts in Interactive Media at the University of Limerick. Here his final project ‘the Cardboard Box Garden’ explored how computer technology can be used in a more imaginative way when used in an educational environment. Kieran worked in the Interaction Design Centre on SHAPE and Shared Worlds, where he assumed the role of chief cardboard expert, dodgy prototype maker, sketcher and general all round bluffer… [/su_tab] [su_tab title=”Publications”]
(Selected list of publications.)
Conference papers
- Fraser, M, Bowers, J, Brundell, P, O’Malley, C, Reeves, S, Benford, S, Ciolfi, L, Ferris, K, Gallagher, P, Hall, T, Bannon, L, Taxen G, Hellstrom, S. (2004). “Re-tracing the Past: Mixing Realities in Museum Settings”, in ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology ACE 2004. 3 rd – 5 th June 2004 National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Hall, T., Bannon, L., Ciolfi, L., Ferris, K., Gallagher, P., Hickey, N. and A. Hedman (2004), “Tools for Open Interpretation: using novel, non-desktop computing to support multiple perspectives in children’s historical understanding”, Proceedings of ICLS04, International Conference on the Learning Sciences.
- Hall, T., Ciolfi, L., Ferris, K., Bannon, L., Gallagher, P. and N. Hickey (2003). “The Second Living Exhibition of the SHAPE project: supporting innovative exploration of artefacts with novel learning technology in the museum”, Proceedings of EdTech2003: The Fourth Annual Irish Educational Technology Users, Waterford (Ireland), May 2003.
- Kieran Ferris, Liam J. Bannon, Luigina Ciolfi, Paul Gallagher, Tony Hall, Marilyn Lennon: Shaping experiences in the hunt museum: a design case study. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2004
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