Oli Mival
Oli Mival

Dr Oli Mival

Principal Research Fellow

 0131 455 2761

  o.mival@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

Oli is an internationally recognised expert in the areas of Human Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience (UX) and Interaction Design (ID).

The designer and originator of both the ICE (Interactive Collaborator Environment) and Sensorium Studio, Oli has been commissioned to consult for a wide range of global industrial and government clients including the NHS, Astra Zeneca, Enquest Oil, CGI, Blue Rubicon, and Redlands Police Department in California.

As both practitioner and researcher, Oli can and does provide a unique insight into user-focussed digital workflow needs, requirements and solutions for healthcare, education, industry and government.

Oli is the conference chair for DIS (Designing Interactive Systems) 2017.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Dr Oli Mival is Demo Chair at ITS 2013
  • Designing Interactive Systems 2017 comes to Edinburgh Napier University in June 2017.

 

Media Activity

  • Dr Oli Mival provides insight on the future of the workplace for Economia magazine
  • IIDI's Interactive Collaborative Environment (ICE) profiled in Communications Business Solutions Magazine
  • FI Star at ICT conference
  • Astra Zeneca ICE, designed by Dr Oli Mival, goes online.
  • Is Pervasive Technology taking us to User Heaven or Techno Hell? Interactive Talk at the Dana Centre, Science Museum, London

 

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Domesticating technology: in-home requirements gathering with frail older people?

Conference Proceeding
Dickinson, A., Goodman, J., Syme, A., Eisma, R., Tiwari, L., Mival, O., & Newell, A. (2002)
Domesticating technology: in-home requirements gathering with frail older people?. In Proceedings 10th International Conference on Human - Computer Interaction HCI. Crete, Greece, June 2003)
As technology becomes increasingly important as a means of supporting older people at home, the dangers of distress caused by the introduction of inappropriate technology beco...

In search of the cybermuse: supporting creative activity within product design.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. (2002)
In search of the cybermuse: supporting creative activity within product design. In J. Mottram, L. Candy, & T. Kavanagh (Eds.), Creativity & cognition : proceedings of the fourth Creativity & Cognition Conference : exhibition papers and posters : Loughborough University, Loughborough, 47-48
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IoT for a shock warning system

Working Paper
Brogan, J., Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., & Fricker, S. (2014)
IoT for a shock warning system
This technical paper details the interdependencies between Internet of Things (IoT) and latest Future Internet (FI) technology, demonstrated by using the example of a smart co...

Companions and new forms of interaction design.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. & Bradley, J. (2008)
Companions and new forms of interaction design. In Proceedings The European Future Technologies Conference, FET09, Prague, April 2009

Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet.

Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D. & Mival, O. (2006)
Introducing the Companions project: intelligent, persistent, personalised interfaces to the internet. In Proceedings of the 21st British HCI Group Annual Conference HCI 07, 193-194. ISBN 978-1-902505-95-4
The Companions project is a 4 year, EU funded Framework Programme 6 project involving a consortium of 16 partners across 8 countries. Its aim is to develop a personalised conv...

Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set.

Conference Proceeding
Wilks, Y., Benyon, D., Brewster, C., Ircing, P. & Mival, O. (2007)
Dialogue, speech and images: the Companions project data set. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and EvaluationISBN 2-9517408-4-0
This paper describes part of the corpus collection efforts underway in the EC funded Companions project. The Companions project is collecting substantial quantities of dialogu...

Location as interaction: designing blended spaces for digital tourism.

Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D., Mival, O., Ayan, S., O'Keefe, B. & Mokey, S. (2011)
Location as interaction: designing blended spaces for digital tourism. In HCI TOCH

Investigating the interaction design challenges of developing applications and services for multi-touch, multi-user collaboration technologies.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. (2009)
Investigating the interaction design challenges of developing applications and services for multi-touch, multi-user collaboration technologies. In Proceedings Create 2010, Edinburgh, June 2010

Wizard of Oz Experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation.

Conference Proceeding
Webb, N., Benyon, D., Bradley, J., Hansen, P. & Mival, O. (2010)
Wizard of Oz Experiments for a companion dialogue system: eliciting companionable conversation. In Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)ISBN 2-9517408-6-7
Working within the EU funded COMPANIONS program, we report recent work with a Wizard of Oz (WoZ) dialogue collection system. COMPANION systems require complex models of dialog...

From Lions to Poodles to Armenian Rabbits: embodied conversational agents in the COMPANIONS project.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. (2008)
From Lions to Poodles to Armenian Rabbits: embodied conversational agents in the COMPANIONS project. In Proceedings of The Reign of Catz and Dogz Symposium, CHI 2009, Boston, April 2009

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