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Staff profile / Dr Steve Gill

Principal Lecturer in Product Design
Director of Research, Cardiff School of Art & Design
UWIC Teaching Fellow
Email: sjgill@uwic.ac.uk
Tel: 02920 416696

Steve Gill is a product designer with 16 years experience in industry and academia. He has designed or product managed around 50 products to market and has published 30+ academic journal and conference papers. He is currently co-writing a book with Prof. Alan Dix of University of Lancaster.

He heads the Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (PAIPR) team developing new methods for the design development of information appliances such as mobile phones. PAIPR works closely with academic partners such as the University of Lancaster and those in blue chip industry such as Sony-Ericsson. PAIPR is currently involved in a major project investigating the nature of physical interaction and its effects on design with the help of a £335K Research Council grant.

Stephen Gill is a member of The Programme for Advanced Interactive Prototype Research (PAIPR) (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/programme_for_advanced_interactive_prototype_research/ ), part of the Design Enhanced Human Futures theme within WIRAD .

Research Awards

• 2006 AHRC and EPSRC funding for DEPtH: Designing for Physicality in collaboration with Alan Dix, University of Lancaster

Keynotes and Lectures

• Keynote Presentation to the 1st International Conference on Physicality, University of Lancaster, February 2006

• Keynote Presentation to workshop on Recent Technology of Prototyping and Usability Assessment of Information Appliances -from Practical Aspects to Future Trends, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, March 2006

• Invited Speaker, Bradford University, 2004

• Visiting Lecturer, University of Northumbria, 2004

• Visiting Lecturer, Leeds Metropolitan University, 2004

• Visiting Lecturer, University of Salford, 2004

Selected Journal Articles

• (2009) Gill, S., Walker, D., Loudon, G., Dix, A., Woolley, A., Ramduny-Ellis, D. and Hare, J. ‘Rapid Development of Tangible Interactive Appliances: Achieving the Fidelity / Time Balance’ in: Tangible and Embedded Interaction, a special issue of the International Journal of Arts and Technology. Online ISSN 1754-8861, print ISSN 1754-8853

• Gill, S., Loudon, G. and Walker, D. (2009), ‘Designing a Design Tool – Working with Industry to Create an Information Appliance Design Methodology’, Journal of Design Research, Inderscience Publishers Ltd.

• Gill, S. (2009) 'Six Challenges Facing User-Orientated Industrial Design', Design Journal 12.1

• Dix, A., Ghazali, M., Gill, S., Hare, J. and Ramduny-Ellis, D. (2009) Physigrams: modelling devices for natural interaction, to be published in Formal Aspects of Computing

• Johnson, P., Griffiths, R. and Gill, S. (2007) The 24-hour Product – From Concept to Interactive Model In Less Than a Day, International Journal of Design Engineering - Vol. 1, No.1 pp. 56 – 70

• Gill, S. (2003): Developing Information Appliance Design Tools for Designers; Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Volume 7, Springer Verlag, London 2003

Selected Conference Contributions

• 2009 WIRAD Emerging Researchers Symposium, Gregynog (Organiser and Programme Committee Chair)

• 2008 Physicality Workshop, DIS Conference, (Programme Committee Member and Reviewer)

• 2007 Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA (Programme Committee Member and Reviewer)

• 2007 2nd Workshop on Physicality, University of Lancaster, (Programme Committee Member and Reviewer)

• 2006 2nd SPED/PDR Symposium, UWIC, (Organiser)

• 2006 Joint CSAD/PDR/UWN seminar on joint research strategy, (Organiser)

• 2005 Human Oriented Informatics & Telematics Conference, (Reviewer)

• 2004 2nd International Appliance Design Conference, Hewlett Packard, Bristol, (Reviewer)

Selected Conference Papers / Presentations

• (2008) Hare, J., Ramduny-Ellis, D., Dix, A. and Gill, S. ‘Exploring Physicality in the Design Process’ in Proceedings of the Design Research Society Conference, Sheffield

• (2008) Wilgeroth, P., Stockton, G. and Gill, S. ‘The Delivery Of Green Design Techniques In An Immersive Learning Environment’ in the Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education 2008, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

• (2008) Dix, A., Sas, C., Ramduny-Ellis, D., Gill, S. and Hare, J. ‘Sociality, Physicality and Spatiality: touching private and public displays in the proceedings of Workshop on designing multi-touch interaction techniques for coupled public and private displays’ in AVI 2008 the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Naples, Italy.

• (2008) Wilgeroth, P., Stockton, G. and Gill, S. ‘The Delivery Of Green Design Techniques In An Immersive Learning Environment’, in Proceedings of International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education 2008, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain.

• (2006), Recent Technology of Prototyping and Usability Assessment of Information Appliances -from Practical Aspects to Future Trends, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, (Invited Speaker)

• (2006) International Conference on Physicality, University of Lancaster, Keynote Speaker),

• (2006), Woolley, A., Gill, S. ‘The Contextual Testing of Interactive Product Simulations for New Generation Products’, in Proceedings of 20th European Simulation Modelling Conference, Toulouse, France

• (2006) Wilgeroth P, Gill S. ‘The Unexpected Benefits Of An Integrated Cad/Cam Based Model Making Strategy’, in Proceedings of the Engineering And Product Design Education Conference, Salzburg, Austria.

• (2006) Evans, M. and Gill, S. ‘Rapid Development of Information Appliances: Future Approaches for Designers’, in Proceedings of the International Design Conference - Design 2006, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

• (2006) Loudon, G., Gill, S. and Walker, D. ‘How Different Prototyping Methods for Information Appliance Design Affect Usability Test Results Poster Presentation’, in Usability Professionals Association Conference, Broomfield, Colorado.

• (2006) Woolley, A and Gill, S. ‘Information Ergonomics Lectures for Creative Prototyping’, in Proceedings of HCIEd.2006-1 inventivity: Teaching theory, design and innovation in HCI, Limerick, Ireland Wilgeroth, P Barham, G & Gill, S.; ‘HOW TO ACHIEVE THE IMPOSSIBLE: Team working and professional collaboration can design and produce an interactive prototype for an information appliance in 24-hours’ in The 3rd Engineering and Product Design Education International Conference, Napier, UK.

• (2005) Gill, S., Loudon, G., Hewett, B., Barham, G. ‘How to Design and Prototype an Information Appliance in 24 Hours – Integrating Product & Interface Design Processes’ in The proceedings of The 6th international conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design & Conceptual Design, Delft University of Technology.

• (2005) Gill, S., Johnson, P., Dale, J., Loudon, G., Hewett, B. and Barham, G. ‘The Traditional Design Process Versus A New Design Methodology: A Comparative Case Study Of A Rapidly Designed Information Appliance’ in Human Oriented Informatics and Telematics Conference, University of York

• (2004) Gill, S. ‘Designing Information Appliances for users to love: Have we got the answer? Poster’ in 2AD Conference, Bristol, UK

• (2003) Gill, S. ‘Developing Information Appliance Design Tools for Designers’ in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Volume 7, Springer Verlag, London

• (2003) Gill, S. ‘Developing Information Appliance Design Tools for Designers’ in 1AD conference, Bristol, UK

• (2001) Nam, T.J. and Gill, S. ‘A rapid interface design and prototyping method for computer-embedded products’ in ICSID conference, Seoul, Korea

• (2000) Gill, S. ‘An Industrial Designer's approach to a Virtual Learning Environment’ in IDATER conference, Loughborough, UK

• (2001), The Virtual School: A Virtual Learning Support Environment, 1st Learning & Teaching Conference, UWIC, June 2001, (Presentation)

• (2000) Nam, T.J. and Gill, S. ‘An effective prototyping method for delivering interaction design in industrial design education’ in IDATER conference, Loughborough, UK

• (2000) Gill, S. and Coward, T. ‘Designing a Learning Environment for Three Dimensional Thinkers’ in International symposium on the dimensions of industrial design research conference, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Other Publications

• Gill, S. (2003 March/April edition),’ Industrial Design and the User Interface’ in New Design Magazine

• Gill, S. (2003 October edition), ‘Industrial Choosing a Design Degree’ in Designing Magazine

Knowledge Transfer

• Since 2007: Cradle to Cradle: Wales. Developing a Network for Industrial Change

• Since 2004: Rapid Interface Development System for Designers (with University of Lancaster)

• Since 2003: Working with Samsung Europe, Sony Ericsson Kinneir Dufort Design and Alloy Total Product Design (top 5 UK design consultancy) to develop new methods of rapidly prototyping complex computer-embedded products with user interfaces

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

• Member of the Design Research Society

• Member of the Association of Computing Machinery

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.