Employed at Loughborough University of Technology Computer Human Interface (LUTCHI) group, a UK Centre for excellence in Human Computer Interaction.  I joined the 2nd year of a 3 year Science and Engineering Research Council, Government,  funded multi-disciplinary research project called ROCOCO.  The ROCOCO project studied the impact of computer mediation on the communication patterns of designers to establish the user requirements for remotely collaborating product designers. 

Responsibilities included:

1. Design an analytical approach to enable a team including Linguists, Computer Software engineers, Psychologists, Product Designers, to
   • See patterns in the data
   • Understand what can and cannot be concluded from the data.
   • Communicate the results effectively to peers and respective scientific journals.
2. Learn John Searle’s Speech Act theory and application,  code 25 hours of conversation using speech-act theory, liaise with team members to identify the implications of the analysis.
3. Contribute to ideas for publications arising from the research,  produce appropriate data summaries per publication and review contents prior to submission to journals.

Other professional: 
Registered as a Chartered member of the British Psychological Society.

Publications:

• Connolly, J.H., Clarke, A.A., Garner, S.W. and Palmén, H.K.  (1997) “A functionally oriented analysis of dialogue between individuals linked by a computer network.“  In “Discourse and Pragmatics in Functional Grammar”  Ed. J Connolly,  published by Walter de Gruyter
• Clarke, A. A., Connolly, J.H.,  Garner, S.W. and Palmén, H.K. (1996). A Language of Cooperation. Linguistic Concepts and Methods in CSCW. J. Connolly and L. Pemberton (1996).
• Garner, S.W. , Scrivener, S.A.R.,  Clarke, A.A.,  Clark, S.,  Connolly, J.H.,  Palmén, H.,  Schappo, A.  &  Smyth M. (1991) The Use of Design Activity for Research into Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW), DATER’91 Conference, pp.84-96, LUT
• Scrivener, S., Clark, S. Clarke, A,. Connolly, J., Garner, S.,  Palmén, H., Smyth M., & Schappo, A.,  (1993) Real-Time Communication Between Dispersed Work Groups via Speech and Drawing. Wirtschaftsinformatik 35(2). pp.149-156.
• Urquijo, S P, Scrivener, S. and Palmén, H.K., (1993) The use of breakdown analysis in synchronous CSCW system design, ECSCW, Milan, Sept. 1993

ROCOCO project team:

• Professor Stephen Scrivener
• Dr. Steve Garner
• Sean Clark
• Dr. Michael Smyth
• Dr. John Conolly
• Anthony Clarke

How to help people find thier files later while minimising the tedium of having to file to a complicated inflexible predefined system

In a non-computer supported environment we could call it the coffee stain effect, I can’t remember where I put it but I know it had a coffee stain on the top left hand side. How do computers systems support finding files based on the qualities of those files that people will actually remember.

The answer included an analysis of the document properties and and automatic multidimensional tagging system that included differential weightings between different inherent properties of the files. Nowadays desktop search engines are solving this problem, the problem space has remained the same the solution opportunities have evolved.

Studied at Loughborough University Human Sciences department supervised by Professor Mark Lansdale