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Philip Barker Author & Editor

Philip Barker is the Eyetech Professor of Applied Computing within the School of Computing at Teesside University in the UK. He has published numerous books, research papers and conference publications. He was appointed as a National Teaching Fellow by the UK's Higher Education Academy in 2005 for his outstanding contributions to the development of electronic learning. He has travelled the world giving lectures, workshops and keynote presentations on his research specialisms. These fall broadly into the general area of human-computer interaction and include performance support, digital knowledge management and electronic learning using mobile and hybrid learning technologies. Paul van Schaik is a Professor of Psychology at Teesside University and a National Teaching Fellow, with a special interest in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). His research focuses on interaction experience, technology acceptance, web-site usability, electronic performance support and decision-making. His work has been published in leading HCI journals.