1. 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

2. Typical Projects: Visualisation
Strong focus on prototyping
Visualisation literature, GUI/Interaction Design literature plus domain literature
d3js possibly used
NOT just making data pretty!

3. Typical Projects: Colour Analysis
Academic Literature
CS & Psychology
Colour in society

4. Typical Projects: apps or web
Areas of Interest for 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