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Fiona Redhead
email: f.redhead[AT]student.qut.edu.au
Brief Biography
Currently I am focusing on finishing my PhD thesis for submission. During my PhD I have worked with Margot Brereton and Andrew Dekker to develop a digital community noticeboard called Nnub. This has been in use in the Brisbane suburb of Moggill from 2008 and at the State Library of Queensland in the Family History section from early 2010. There is an increasing interest in Nnub from people that work on the ground in local communities. Prior to PhD research, I completed a Masters degree in Interaction Design and a Bachelor of Design Studies (Architecture) at the University of Queensland (UQ), and certification as a Cisco Certified Network Associate. I taught at UQ for a number of years both as a tutor and associate lecturer primarily in first year courses for studio based design, visual thinking, and multimedia applications training.
PhD Thesis Title and Abstract
Designing for Local Suburban Communications
The aim of my research is to explore networked technologies for suburban communications, to build a reliable place for people to contact their local community, and to further understand design methods for this purpose. Earlier studies in the suburb in which this research is situated revealed that it is difficult for community members to get messages to their local community. This research uses an exploratory prototype to focus an iterative design cycle, with an embedded approach to understand the community fabric of people and place. The intended contribution is to build knowledge of design for networked technologies for suburban communications.
Publications
Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
Redhead, F. & Brereton, M. 2012, Growing Local Participation Through Long Term Design, paper presented to PIN-C ’12, Lilydale, Melbourne.
Iterative design within a local community communication fabricOZCHI '10 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, 2010
Redhead, F. & Brereton, M. 2009, Designing Interaction for Local Communications: An Urban Screen Study, paper presented to Interact ’09, Uppsala, Sweden, Springer-Verlag, pp. 457 - 460.
Redhead, F., Dekker, A. & Brereton, M. 2009, A Situated Display for Local Community Participation: The Design and Use of Nnub, paper presented to UIC ‘09, Brisbane, Australia, IEEE, pp. 102 - 107.
Redhead, F. & Brereton, M. 2008, Getting to the Nub of Neighbourhood Interaction, paper presented to PDC ‘08, Bloomington, Indiana, Indiana University, pp. 270 - 273.
A qualitative analysis of local community communicationsOZCHI '06 Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments, 2006
Non-Peer Reviewed Conference Papers
Redhead, F. & Brereton, M. 2008, Establishment and Use of Nnub: A Digital Community Noticeboard, paper presented to QUT BEE Design Theme Postgraduate Student Conference, Brisbane, Australia, QUT, pp. 96 – 106.
Redhead, F. & Brereton, M. 2008, Getting to the Nub of Neighbourhood Interaction, presented to ASID ’08 Symposium, Brisbane, Australia. (revised version of paper presented to PDC ‘08, Bloomington, Indiana)
Workshop Papers
Brereton, M., Redhead, F. & Segalowitz, M. 2009, From Participatory Design to Designing Participation: Constructing Civic Engagement as a Matter for Design, paper presented to HCSNet Workshop: From Social Butterfly to Urban Citizen, Brisbane, Australia.
Redhead, F. Designing Information and Communications for Local Suburban Communications, paper presented to Centre for Human Centred Technology Design Research workshop: Practice-based service design and innovation, Sydney, Australia.
Redhead, F. & Brereton, M. 2008, Nnub: A Display for Local Communications, paper presented to OZCHI ’08 workshop: Public and Situated Displays to Support Communities, Cairns, Australia.
Redhead, F., Brereton, M., Dekker, A. & MacColl, I. 2008, Nnub: Getting to the Nub of Neighbourhood Interaction, paper presented to CHI ‘08 workshop: HCI for Community and International Development, Florence, Italy.
MacColl, I., Billinghurst, M., Brereton, M., D’Souza, M., Dekker, A., Postula, A., Redhead, F., Richardson, I. & Ros, M. 2008, Urban Interfaces, paper presented to CHI ‘08 workshop: Designing and Evaluating Mobile Phone Based Interactions with Public Displays, Florence, Italy.
Viller, S., Brereton, M., Redhead, F., Axup, J., Hemelryk Donald, S. & Billinghurst, M. 2004, Designing Shared Community Information Spaces, paper presented to CSCW ‘04 workshop: Exploring the Role of Information, Information Tools, and Information Environments in Collaboration, Chicago, Illinois.
Workshops
Redhead, F. & Brereton, M. 2009, Designing Web 2.0 for Local Communications, workshop at Making Links Conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Poster Papers
Redhead, F., Brereton, M., Dekker, A. & MacColl, I. 2008, Nnub: Getting to the Nub of Neighbourhood Interaction, poster presented to Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTech) workshop, Melbourne, Australia.
Viller, S., Brereton, M., Redhead, F. & Axup, J. 2005, A Collaborative Digestion and Design Game for Community and Technology Exploration, poster presented to DUX ‘05, San Francisco, California, AIGA.
Demonstration Papers
NNUB: the neighbourhood nub digital noticeboard systemOZCHI '10 Proceedings of the 22nd Conference of the Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group of Australia on Computer-Human Interaction, 2010
Doctoral Consortium Papers
Redhead, F. Information and Communication Technology for Local Communications, paper presented to PDC ’08 Doctoral Consortium, Bloomington, Indiana.