Barry Brown

Associate Professor

Education

BSc. (hons) in Computer science, University of Edinburgh (1994)

Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Surrey (1998)

Research

The focus of Barry's work has been on the sociology and design of leisure technologies - games, music, and the like. He has recently published work on games, tourism, museum visiting, the use of maps, television watching and sport spectating.

Publications

Brown, B., A. Taylor, S. Izadi, A. Sellen, and J. Kaye (2007) Locating Family Values: A Field Trial of the Whereabouts Clock. To appear in: Proceedings of UBICOMP 2007

Brown, B., J. Lundin, G. Lymer, M. Rost, L. Holmquist (2007) Seeing Ethnographically: Teaching ethnography as part of CSCW, To appear in: Proceedings of ECSCW 2007

Brown, B. (2007) From Smart to Ordinary: Shoshana Zuboff's "In the Age of the Smart Machine". To appear in: Tom Ericson & David McDonald (2007) HCI Remixed. MIT Press

Brown, B. (2007) Working the problems of tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, vol 34 issue 2, p364-383

Barkhuus, L. and B. Brown (Eds.) (2007) Special edition of CSCW journal on leisure technologies, CSCW Journal, 16(1-2)