Oli Mival
Oli Mival

Dr Oli Mival

Principal Research Fellow

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  o.mival@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Oli is an internationally recognised expert in the areas of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX) and Interaction Design (ID).

The designer and originator of both the ICE (Interactive Collaborator Environment) and Sensorium Studio, Oli has been commissioned to consult for a wide range of global industrial and government clients including the NHS, Astra Zeneca, Enquest Oil, CGI, Blue Rubicon, and Redlands Police Department in California.

As both practitioner and researcher, Oli can and does provide a unique insight into user-focussed digital workflow needs, requirements and solutions for healthcare, education, industry and government.

Oli is the conference chair for DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2017.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Dr Oli Mival is Demo Chair at ITS 2013
  • Designing Interactive Systems 2017 comes to Edinburgh Napier University in June 2017.

 

Media Activity

  • FI Star at ICT conference
  • Dr Oli Mival provides insight on the future of the workplace for Economia magazine
  • Astra Zeneca ICE, designed by Dr Oli Mival, goes online.
  • IIDI's Interactive Collaborative Environment (ICE) profiled in Communications Business Solutions Magazine
  • Is Pervasive Technology taking us to User Heaven or Techno Hell? Interactive Talk at the Dana Centre, Science Museum, London

 

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Evaluating human-machine conversation for appropriateness.

Conference Proceeding
Webb, N., Benyon, D., Hansen, P., & Mival, O. (2010)
Evaluating human-machine conversation for appropriateness. In Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), 84-91
Evaluation of complex, collaborative dialogue systems is a difficult task.Traditionally, developers have relied upon subjective feedback from the user,and parametrisation over...

Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions.

Conference Proceeding
Bradley, J., Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2009)
Wizard of Oz experiments for Companions. In Proceedings British HCI 2009, (313-317
Wizard of Oz experiments allow designers and developers to see the reactions of people as they interact with to-bedeveloped technologies. At the Centre for Interaction Design ...

PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., Bradley, J., Roa-Seiler, N., & Benyon, D. (2008)
PhotoPal: companionship, sharing and the digital echo. In Proceedings of CHI Collocated Social Practices Surrounding Photos Workshop
This short paper introduces the research of the 14 partner, EU Framework 6 project, COMPANIONS. It focuses on the development of PhotoPal, a multimodal system harnessing the c...

Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships

Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2008)
Landscaping personification technologies: from interactions to relationships. In Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, presented at CHI 2008, Florence, April 2008 (3657-3662). https://doi.org/10.1145/1358628.1358908
Personification technologies are technologies that encourage people to anthropomorphize. These technologies try to get people to form relationships with them rather than simpl...

A novel architecture for designing by Wizard of Oz

Conference Proceeding
Bradley, J., Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2008)
A novel architecture for designing by Wizard of Oz. In Proceedings CREATE08, London, June 2008

The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data.

Presentation / Conference
Wilks, Y., Catizone, R., & Mival, O. (2008, January)
The Companions paradigm as a method of eliciting and organising life data. Presented at Workshop on Memories for Life, British Computer Society, London, UK
No abstract available.

Exploring Companion technologies.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2007)
Exploring Companion technologies. In Proceedings of AISB2008

The COMPANIONS project, novel interactions and experiences.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. (2006)
The COMPANIONS project, novel interactions and experiences. In Proceedings of AISB2007

Personification technologies: developing artificial companions for older people.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O., Cringean, S., & Benyon, D. (2004)
Personification technologies: developing artificial companions for older people. In CHI 2004 conference proceedings : Connect
This paper reports on the work of the UTOPIA project, a consortium of four Scottish universities concerned with technology issues for older people, focusing specifically on ar...

Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people.

Conference Proceeding
Eisma, R., Dickinson, A., Goodman, J., Mival, O., Syme, A., & Tiwari, L. (2003)
Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people. In Proceedings-Include 2003. , (7:252-7:259
There are few guidelines on how to involve older people in the design process of new IT related products. In this paper we describe some of the difficulties encountered when w...

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