Liam Bannon is a Professor Emeritus and founder and director of the Interaction Design Centre at the University of Limerick in Ireland.
Liam has been a hugely influential thinker writer and researcher since the 1980s, along with various collaborators, in shaping work around technology and design.
Recorded in-person in 2017, he reflects on his interdisciplinary journey and contributions, covering areas such as AI, HCI, CSCW, human-centered design, and collaboration. Liam’s experiences exemplify the challenges and rewards of crafting a unique academic career largely outside the box, grounded in interdisciplinary collaboration and a commitment to improving human-technology interactions, while also highlighting the importance of personal fulfilment and being able to think broadly.
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Liam at the Interaction Design Centre, Uni of Limerick
Some of the people & papers he mentions:
George Miller
Zenon Pylyshyn, (1973). What the mind's eye tells the mind's brain: A critique of mental imagery. Psychological Bulletin, 80(1), 1–24.
H. Rudy Ramsey and Michael E Attwood (1979) Human Factors in Computer Systems: A Review of the Literature, Technical Report SAI-79-111DEN
James Jenkins, Uni of Minnesota
Don Norman, Human Centered Design, UCSD. See also https://jnd.org
Kjeld Schmidt
Lucy Suchman
Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics
Susanne Bødker, Aarhus Uni; see also our 2023 podcast conversation
Mike Cooley, Engineer Lucas Aerospace
Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, Understanding Computers and Cognition, A New Foundation for Design, 1987, Addison-Wesley.
Bannon, L. & Bødker, S. (1991) Beyond the Interface: Encountering Artifacts in Use. Book Chapter in J.M. Carroll (Ed.) (1991) Designing Interaction: Psychology at the Human-Computer Interface, pp.227-253. (New York: Cambridge University Press) (See also an earlier version)
Bud Mehan, UCSD
Pelle Ehn, Morten Kyng and Participatory Design e.g., see this paper
Rank Xerox Cambridge EuroPARC e.g., see overview articles 'What is EuroPARC?' and 'Rank Xerox Cambridge EuroPARC'
Liam J. Bannon (2006) Forgetting as a feature, not a bug: the duality of memory and implications for ubiquitous computing, CoDesign, 2:1, 3-15
Liam J. Bannon (2012) Interactions
Schmidt, K., Bannon, L., Four characters in search of a context
Schmidt, K., Bannon, L. Taking CSCW seriously. Comput Supported Coop Work 1, 7–40 (1992).
The Google Scholar listing of all of Liam’s publications
Susanne Bødker on career, culture and choices
Reforming research assessment top-down bottom-up middle-out (solo)
Being a Work in Progress (solo)
Karen Stroobants on changing research culture and reforming research assessment
New Season Welcome (solo)
End of Season Reflections and Transitions
Sarah Davies (Part 2) on luck, disrupting excellence, and cultures of care
Sarah Davies (Part 1) on mobility, precarity and notions of excellence
Elizabeth Churchill on creating culture, leading teams, loving challenges
Marta Cecchinato (part 2) on promoting wellbeing through leadership, EDI & self-care
Marta Cecchinato (part 1) on digital wellbeing and microboundary strategies
James Wilsdon - Replay on metrics & responsible research evaluation
Heike Winschiers-Theophilus on global south research, reviewer bias, abstract vs lived diversity, & pluriversality
Edward Lee on the toxic culture of peer review
A confession from my review hall of shame
Gloria Mark - Replay
Leadership development with Austen Rainer
End of 2022 Reflections
Aisling O’Kane on radical participatory decision making (Part 2)
Aisling O’Kane on mobility, interdisciplinary threads & family (Part 1)
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