David Benyon Author & Editor

David Benyon is Professor of Human-Computer Systems and head of the Center for interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University in Scotland, UK. He obtained an MSc in Computing and Cognition and completed his Ph.D. in 1993 on the subject of Intelligent User Interfaces. Prof. Benyon has written or edited 11 books on Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design and published over 150 academic papers including 30 journal papers. Over the last 7 years he has obtained significant funding to support his research including six major EC grants. Prof. Benyon is a member of several professional societies and is on the editorial board for the journals Knowledge-Based Systems and International Journal of People-Oriented Programming. He has authored a major textbook in the area entitled Designing Interactive Systems (the 3rd edition was published in 2013). One of the key books published by Prof. Benyon is Designing with Blends (with Manuel Imaz, MIT Press, 2007) which has helped to introduce conceptual blending to the interaction design community