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
  • 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
  • Is Pervasive Technology taking us to User Heaven or Techno Hell? Interactive Talk at the Dana Centre, Science Museum, London

 

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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...

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...

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

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 ...

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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