Oli Mival
Oli Mival

Dr Oli Mival

Principal Research Fellow

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  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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Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people.

Conference Proceeding
Eisma, R., Dickinson, A., Goodman, J., Mival, O., Syme, A., & Tiwari, L. (2003)
Mutual inspiration in the development of new technology for older people. In Proceedings-Include 2003. , (7:252-7:259
There are few guidelines on how to involve older people in the design process of new IT related products. In this paper we describe some of the difficulties encountered when w...

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
No abstract available.

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...

Scenarios for Companions.

Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D. & Mival, O. (2007)
Scenarios for Companions. In Austrian Artificial Intelligence Workshop, Vienna, September 2008, 1-38
This paper is concerned with understanding the needs ofCompanion owners (the people formerly known as ‘users’) and in how thoserequirements can be represented, with the whole ...

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

Human-Centred design of interactive services.

Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D. & Mival, O. (2007)
Human-Centred design of interactive services. In Proceedings HCI 2008, Manchester, September 2008

Crossing the chasm: developing and understanding support tools to bridge the research design divide within a leading product design company.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. (2003)
Crossing the chasm: developing and understanding support tools to bridge the research design divide within a leading product design company. In Proceedings Design 2004. 8th Int. Design Conf. , Dubrovnik, May 2004

From conceptual to concrete: using video in scenario development.

Conference Proceeding
Mival, O. & Benyon, D. (2006)
From conceptual to concrete: using video in scenario development. In Proceeding of Create 2007, London, June 2007

Designing blended spaces.

Conference Proceeding
Benyon, D., Mival, O. & Ayan, S. (2011)
Designing blended spaces. In HCI2012 - People & Computers XXVI Proceedings of HCI 2012 The 26th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction, 398-403
We present an approach to the design of mixed reality spaces that aims to create a more harmonized and unified user experience. We refer to these as blended spaces. Blended sp...

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...

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