Lorna McKnight
Lorna is a Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the ChiCi Group at the University of Central Lancashire, working on the UMSIC project and other research.
My Research Interests
I have a wide range of research interests, which hopefully will lead to a research direction one day. Main areas of interest include HCI and usability, designing and evaluating technology for children, touch-screens and gestures, virtual environments, immersion, augmented reality, tangible interfaces and physicality. My PhD research was on the effect of virtual environments on personal creativity, which also included working extensively with Second Life, and so I have an interest in online social networking tools of this nature.
Projects
Publications
McKnight, L. and Cassidy, B. (2010) Children's Interaction with Mobile Touch-Screen Devices: Experiences and Guidelines for Design. International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction, 2 (2). IGI-Global.
McKnight, L. and Fitton, D. (2010) Touch-screen Technology for Children: Giving the Right Instructions and Getting the Right Responses. In Proceedings of IDC 2010, Barcelona, Spain. ACM Press.
McKnight, L. (2010) Designing for ADHD: in search of guidelines. In the IDC workshop on Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth. IDC 2010, Barcelona, Spain. [pdf]
McKnight, L. and J. C. Read (2009). Designing the 'record' button: Using children's understanding of icons to inform the design of a musical interface. IDC'09. Como, Italy. ACM Press.
Read, J.C., Horton, M., Mazzone, E., Cassidy, B. and McKnight, L. (2009) Designing for Mr Hippo - Introducing Concepts of Marginalisation to Children Designers. In the IDC workshop on Digital Technologies and Marginalized Youth. IDC 2009, Como, Italy. [pdf]
McKnight, L. (2007). Instantiating Your Imagination: Creativity across different levels of reality. In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Physicality. Lancaster: UWIC Press.
McKnight, L. (2007). Creativity in VR: constraint versus exploration. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & Cognition. ACM Press.
McKnight, L., Ormerod, T. C., Sas, C., & Dix, A. (2006). As useful as a bicycle to a fish: exploration versus constraint in creativity. In Proceedings of the cognitive science society conference. Montreal, Canada: Cognitive Science Society.
Dix, A., Ormerod, T., Twidale, M., Sas, C., Silva, P. G. da, & McKnight, L. (2006). Why bad ideas are a good idea. In Proceedings of HCIEd.-1 inventivity. HCI Educators Workshop.
