Dr Karen Shoop, karen.shoop@qmul.ac.uk At Queen Mary I am the Co-Director of the Design, Innovation & Creative Engineering degree and the Programme Co-ordinator of the Creative Computing degree I am on the management team of Queen Mary’s only Doctoral Training Centre: Media & Arts Technology PhDs (we also take MSc students, sometimes from the JP) I lecture 4th year JP e-commerce students: EBU6610, Information Systems Management I give priority to e-commerce students for my projects Typical projects have a visual or information management focus, suitable for students with creative skills (art/design) or looking towards a computer science MSc I am looking for confident/happy programmers I will check your Java & Software Engineering exam results
Typical Projects: Visualisation Strong focus on prototyping Visualisation literature, GUI/Interaction Design literature plus domain literature d3js possibly used NOT just making data pretty!
Typical Projects: Colour Analysis Academic Literature CS & Psychology Colour in society
Typical Projects: apps or web Areas of Interest for 2017-18 include hedonic adaptation, visual projects, plus possibly projects using economic theory e.g. asymmetric information Projects based on academic literature to provide rigour Key Challenge: to understand the problem/ domain – testing prototypes Hedonic adaptation – waiting for merlot 2014, Kumar, Gilovich & Killingsworth – a holiday starts when you start planning, guardian 13 may 2017