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Nick Fine

PhD Student
Brunel University, Department of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics

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Contact Details

Brunel University, Department of Information Systems and Computing,
Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, United Kingdom


e-mail nick.fine@brunel.ac.uk
Mobile on request
ICQ # 2120151
ICQ Status
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Objectives

  • Course - to develop expert knowledge within the HCI field to integrate with commercial experience
  • Career - to provide innovative technical solutions to improve quality of personal and corporate life

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Research Interests

Whether it's Macro, Micro or Nano,
Hardware, Software or Wetware,
Intelligent, Dumb or Eliza,
Minsky or Searle,
Gates, Jobs, Thorvald or McNealy,
I want to know about it...
...and then I want to interface the whole lot together :)


Here's what's got me going at the moment :
INPUT METHODS improving upon the QWERTY keyboard, commercial viability and user cross training/migration paths, applications and integration of CHORD keyboards in wireless/portable devices, voice recognition
NEURAL NETWORKS portability of user trained artificial neural networks
WIRELESS TECHNOLOGY the impact upon the workplace and working practices of location independence
SECURITY SYSTEMS design and applications of appropriate biometric authentication systems
INTERFACE TRANSFORMATION design issues when porting an interface from one device to another
3D INTERFACES applying word taxonomies to enhance hypertext, virtual reality revisited and reapplied, desktop dimensionality for data handling
WEARABLE COMPUTING conductive clothing fibre, Personal Area Networks, effects of EMFs
VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS data representation and manipulation in a simulated environment
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Career Summary

2004 Brunel University, PhD
2002 UCLIC MSc HCI-E
Claranet
1999 EO plc
1998 Internet Network Services
1996 Demon Internet
1993 University of Portsmouth
BSc (Hons) Psychology
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Skillset

Computing Business Systems
Personal Computing
Home Integration
Networks TCP/IP Networking
Wireless (802.11)
Development Systems Analysis
Application Design
Rapid Application Development
System Integration
Testing Methodologies
Security IP Security Systems
Biometric Authentication

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Interests


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