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

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

 

Media Activity

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

 

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Jupiter Artland iOS App

Digital Artefact
Mival, O., Ammeloot, A., McGregor, I., & Benyon, D. (2014)
Jupiter Artland iOS App. [iOS app]
This free app can be used onsite or offsite to enhance the visitor experience and has film, audio, text and photographs providing an in-depth look at this private family colle...

Norms and standards in modular medical architectures.

Conference Proceeding
Fricker, S., Fiedler, M., Grottland, A., Jell, T., Magedanz, T., Thuemmler, C., …Paulin, A. (2014)
Norms and standards in modular medical architectures. In 2013 IEEE 15th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) (IEEE Healthcom 2013), (382-387). https://doi.org/10.1109/HealthCom.2013.6720705
Recent Internet of Things (IoT) research has been aiming at interoperability of devices and the integration of sensor networks. The Future Internet - Private Public Partnershi...

Health: RFID makes surgery safer.

Book
Mival, O., Thuemmler, C., Schneider, A., Paulin, A., Kranzfelder, M., & Hasan, A. (2013)
Health: RFID makes surgery safer. In P. Cousin (Ed.), Internet of Things: Success Stories, 54-60. Internet of Things Council
This document presents a novel technique to reduce the risk of forgotten surgical towels in surgery. It is an application of IoT in field of healthcare. Integrating RFID tags ...

A social technological alignment matrix.

Presentation / Conference
Thuemmler, C., Mival, O., Lim Jumelle, A. K., Holanec, I., & Fricker, S. (2014, January)
A social technological alignment matrix. Paper presented at IEEE Healthcom 2014, Natal, Brazil
This paper refers to the term “implementation” as the process of integrating a new technology into established workflows. Especially in health care this has proven to be a ver...

Scenarios for Companions.

Book Chapter
Benyon, D., & Mival, O. (2013)
Scenarios for Companions. In Your Virtual Butler: the making of, 79-96. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37346-6_8
This paper is concerned with understanding the needs of Companion owners (the people formerly known as ‘users’). The problem with developing technologies such as companions is...

Implementing an ICE: A methodology for the design, development and installation of Interactive Collaborative Environments in real world industrial settings.

Presentation / Conference
Mival, O., & Benyon, D. (2013, April)
Implementing an ICE: A methodology for the design, development and installation of Interactive Collaborative Environments in real world industrial settings. Paper presented at CHI2013 workshop on Blended Interaction Spaces., Paris, France
In this paper, we present a methodology for the design, development and implementation of ICEs (Interactive Collaborative Environments) in real world industrial settings. The ...

Mobile experiences for tourism: brick city tours.

Presentation / Conference
Mival, O., O'Keefe, B., & Mokey, S. (2013, April)
Mobile experiences for tourism: brick city tours. Paper presented at CHI2013 workshop on Blended Interaction Spaces., Paris, France
In this project we utilized user-centered design methods to research and evaluate challenges. From this, our team of interdisciplinary students was able to provide unique, use...

Blended spaces and digital tourism.

Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D., Mival, O. & O'Keefe, B. (2012)
Blended spaces and digital tourism

How Was Your Day? evaluating a conversational companion

Journal Article
Benyon, D., Gambäck, B., Hansen, P., Mival, O., & Webb, N. (2012)
How Was Your Day? evaluating a conversational companion. IEEE transactions on affective computing, 4, 299-311. https://doi.org/10.1109/T-AFFC.2013.15
The “How Was Your Day” (HWYD) Companion is an embodied conversational agent that can discuss work-related issues, entering free-form dialogues that lack any clearly defined ta...

Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent

Journal Article
Smith, C., Crook, N., Dobnik, S., Charlton, D., Boye, J., Pulman, S., …Cavazza, M. (2011)
Interaction strategies for an affective conversational agent. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, 20, 395-411. https://doi.org/10.1162/PRES_a_00063
The development of embodied conversational agents (ECA) as companions brings several challenges for both affective and conversational dialogue. These include challenges in gen...

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