Brief biography
Harold Thimbleby is professor of computer science at Swansea University, Wales, where he established the Future Interaction Technology Lab, FIT Lab (www.fitlab.eu). His passion is designing dependable computer systems to accommodate human error. See CHI+MED: Multidisciplinary Computer-Human Interaction research for the design and safe use of interactive medical devices for a really exciting major project he&rqsquo;s on.
He has been a Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit award holder and a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow.
Harold has published over 400 papers, and wrote the book Press On, which won the American Publishers’ Association best book award in computer science.
Harold is a visiting professor at UCL and at Middlesex University.
Harold’s web site (this site) is www.harold.thimbleby.net
Recent things
- Safer design movie
- Dance theatre is way better than my interviewed review
- Errors + bugs needn’t mean death (PDF)
- Is IT a dangerous prescription? (PDF)
- Reducing number entry errors: solving a widespread, serious problem (web site)
- Using regular expressions for dependable data entry (web site)
- Interactive medical devices (web site)
- Member of NHS 23, stakeholder board of Informing Healthcare, Trustee & member of Standing Group of the Clinical Human Factors Group.
- Press On
Prolific researcher
Harold published his first paper, on menus, in 1978, and has since written over 400 publications, from newspaper articles to articles in Encyclopedia Britannica, as well as many refereed research publications — about 50/50 refereed and invited. Harold wrote User Interface Design, published in the ACM Press Frontier Series in 1990, and his fifth book, Press On, was published by MIT Press in 2007: it was 2007 winner of the Association of American Publishers Publishing Awards for Excellence Competition in the Computer and Information Sciences category. He was Royal Society-Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellow (2008–2009), Royal Society-Wolfson Research Merit Award Holder (2001–2006), awarded the British Computer Society Wilkes Medal, and won a Toshiba Year of Invention prize.
Team builder
Harold founded Swansea University Research Forum, and founded the FIT Lab, 2006. He previously founded University College London Interaction Centre (UCLIC) in 2001.
International reputation
Harold has held visiting positions in Canada, New Zealand and South Africa, etc, and is on numerous international editorial boards and conference committees. He has presented 30 international conference keynotes, including the first German Software Ergonomics conference, first International Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing Conference, first Asia-Pacific Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, etc.
Excellent speaker
Harold has presented nearly 50 conference keynotes and 400 seminars and presentations (including at Cambridge, MIT, Oxford, Royal Institution, Royal Society, Stanford and the House of Lords) in 21 different countries. See more ...
Advancing public understanding of science
Harold is 28th. Gresham Professor of Geometry, and has been widely interviewed and reported in the media. He got the largest post-bag ever for a New Scientist feature article — about video recorder usability! He has presented at many international science festivals in UK and internationally, and at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition.
CV
Harold’s full CV is available in PDF.
Harold using a ticket machine
— when it takes your cash
it does not confirm the ticket type
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