Broadly my interests are in social science approaches to studying and developing new leisure technologies, such as games, tourism and music. The focus of my work has been on the details of engagement with technology using ethnographic and video methods. My work is motivated from an ethnomethodological/Wittgensteinian position, but I also attempt a positive engagement with contemporary social theory (such as in my recent work on mobility, and maps).
The recent focus of my work has been on examining existing leisure practice, new technologies for leisure, and trials of systems in use in real settings. Studies of game playing, tourism and sport, have been used to design support for new leisure activities - such as mixed-reality museum visiting, mobile collaborative tourism and augmented-reality video games. In turn studies of these systems in use help us learn lessons about the leisure itself as an activity.