I enjoy working within the School of Computing, Informatics and Media (SCIM) because it promotes the idea of a bridge between two cultures: Arts and Sciences. I occupy a deliberately trans-disciplinary space in research, media output and teaching.
I am interested in the practical application of critical cultural theory to the production of content and narrative. This includes video, but also interactive, cross-platform media delivered to different devices, in a range of contexts. This practice involes a study of lived environments.
I have developed practical Masters courses about content and applications for mobile devices, whilst supporting research into Bluetooth, Symbian, J2ME, messaging and Web-browsing technologies.
Outside my University roles, My hobbies include involvment in community environmental projects, books, film, walking and cycling. I'm a manager and partner of 4clubbers.net, a music social networking and editorial site that receives over 100,000 unique visits, monthly. I have been working with the Mobile Internet since 1998.
Current Projects/Roles:
"Ecoversity" Academic Pioneer: The University aims to be a beacon institution in its approach to Sustainable Development. My role is to engage students and staff in Education for Sustainable Development in SCIM through workshops, events and curriculum intervention.
Knowledge Transfer Projects: I am currently working with Aspire-I and Bluetree, on the development of advanced "Miway - life planning" software.
I have directed a Community Engagement animation documentary, and produced internal Websites like the Summer Placements website.
"At the Foot of the Uncanny Valley: the zombie and cultural anxiety" - paper being co-authored with Mondo film expert Mark Goodall
Range of papers produced on physicality, space and communications technology. Mobile learning, and sustainability feed into these themes.
Selected past projects:
Co-supervisor for the GRID project (Growing Interest in the Development of teaching Science), funded by the EC within the Socrates Programme. Produced/directed five short films around science events in schools.
Research associate, TRIP project: Transdisciplinary Research into Intelligent Publishing.
Research associate for STEAD m-learning project, teaching children about the 'Intelligent Home'.
Further development of the AMICITIAS project, to expand in to further EU countries and adapt to different learning or commercial tourist models.
Further papers and development around m-learning in conjunction with Prof. Rae Earnshaw, PhD students and other colleagues in the department.
Applications for Yorkshire Forward's Rapid Innovation Vouchers
Collaboration with www.Panoetic.com - Enabling mobile content.
In collaboration with Bluetree Software - Developing interactive tools for the visually impaired.
AMICITIAS - Ambient Intelligence as a Compelling Instructional Tool for Interlinguistic and Intercultural Skills. We are working with partner institutions across Europe and delivering mobile cultural experiences in cities including Barcelona, Toledo, Dublin, Sardinia and Bradford. Amount
awarded by the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency: £70,253
Ecoversity Academic Pioneer Funds - Sustainability and the Curriculum. Amount awarded by HEFCE as part of the StuDent Project: £64,000
KTP - Aspire-I/Careers Bradford - A Knowledge Transfer Partnership designed to bring innovation to local agencies. Total amount £111,632
Rapid Innovation Bid - in conjuntion with Dr Hassan Ugail. “The Interviewer 3.0” - Computer Assisted Automatic and Dynamic Feedback for Interviews. The aim of our Rapid Innovation Project is to develop a software module for computer-based analysis of video interviews, in order to provide real time dynamic feedback to the user. This will enable us to significantly enhance existing software “The Interviewer”, shortly to be released as version 2.0 by a cross-disciplinary team at The University of Bradford.
Amount bid for £39652
4ip (Channel 4's innovation fund) - "The Basher" application. Development of an enviromentally themed game for I-phone.
Amount bid for £9000
David has reviewed submissions for New Media & Society and has been an External
Examiner/advisor for Hull College of Art and Design in the development of their Media courses.
David is the Web, mobile and multimedia consultant for the Informatics Innovation Unit (IIU). He is also the academic advisor for the forthcoming multi-million pound Internet Gallery, at the National Media Museum.
Three separate student projects, which were 'executive produced' by David Robison and Ali Rashid, in the role of tutors, have won Royal Television Society Prizes.
Most recently "Town Joolz" won best regional documentary prize, 2008, for its depiction of the contrasts between regeneration and decline in Bradford, and featured award winning local poet Joolz Denby in the role of narrator and presenter. In previous years the same prize was awarded to "Perception Deception", an undergraduate documentary about visual agnosia, a rare condition of the brain which prevents the recognition of everyday objects and faces. David's Individual Project student also won the RTS national prize for the best Animation for his excellent comic piece featuring music by "Ugly Duckling", entitled "Meat-shake".
AMICITIAS project - collaboration between EU wide partners to develop language learning and cross-cultural interaction tools, with the involvement of mobile devices.
Collaboration based in Iran, via Extra-mural PhD Student, examining the possibilities for learning using mobile technology in isolated rural communities.
AMICITIAS Research project:
Xiayou Tan (Programmer)
Ranjan Kulkarni (J2ME Programmer)
Interactive Life Planner Project:
Aqsa Mahruf (Knowledge Transfer Associate)
-Mrs Faranak Foutouhi-Ghazvini (PhD: Mobile gaming and education in Iran)
-Mr Saman Jalal Mawlud (PhD: The development of Kurdish Media)
-Mr K A Ahmed (PhD: Commercial E-Learning)
-Mr Omar Salem (PhD: Mobile Television and Video)
-Miss Hamda Hamda Al-Shihi (PhD: Multi-cultural 'embodiment' in virtual e-learning spaces)
-Mr Ali Yousef Mahmoud Tawarneh (PhD: E-learning using advanced computer distributed wireless
technology)
-Mr Harfoushi (COMPLETED 2008 - PhD: Mobile learning)
Academic Advisor for the forthcoming "Internet Gallery" at the National Media Museum
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