Liam Bannon is the founder of the Interaction Design Centre and Professor (Emeritus) at the Computer Science and Information Systems department. He has previously held the positions of Director of the IDC and Professor of Computer Science, Dept. of Computer Science & Information Systems. Liam is interested in improving the utility, usability, and desireability of the computational artifacts we design. He has been involved in examining alternative conceptual and methodological frameworks for understanding human activities, and their mediation by various technologies. This quest for more adequate explanatory frames has lead him to examine aspects of activity theory, ethnomethodology, and phenomenology. Liam takes an understanding of use as being a prerequisite for design, and wishes to understand human practices. He also wishes to encourage a more participative approach towards the design field. Liam emphasizes the cooperative nature of human work and its implications for design, and has played a major role in developing CSCW issues in Europe – being a founding editor of the CSCW Journal. He has been involved in exploring the field of Interaction Design, as an emerging, and distinct interdisciplinary field that has particular pertinence in this age of ubiquitous technology. Liam has explored how to create novel interactive media and infrastructures that will hopefully enhance different aspects of people’s lives.
(Selected list of publications.)
Book chapters
Conference papers
Edited collection
Journal papers
Journal special issue
Work in progress
Workshop papers