Gilbert Cockton
Former professor of Design Theory at Northumbria UniversityDr Gilbert Cockton is a part-time research fellow in the School of Computing at the University of Sunderland.
– He has worked in Interaction Design for almost 40 years, starting with design and implementation of e-learning programs as a high school teacher, followed by freelance games programming.
– These interests led him to pursue a PhD on User Interface Architectures and Specification.
– Much of his time was spent working for and within businesses in the Scottish HCI Centre, for Bell Northern (now Nortel) research, MARI Computer Systems, Microsoft Research, several consultancy assignments and directing major regional digital sector support projects (Digital Media Network, CODEWORKS NITRO, HEFCE Digital CoKE). In the latter roles, he contributed to the establishment of the north east of England as a major centre of creative digital technology.
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