Dr. Leon Cruickshank

Senior Lecturer

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Open Innovation and Mass Creativity, User Centred and User-Led Design, Interactive TV service design, Technology and Society, Design Methodology, Design Theory and Philosophy

Leon's core interests relate to how technology can enable new relationships between users and designers and through this allow users to become more active in shaping our society, environment and media. This requires a radical change in the way we think about designers and designing.

Blog: imaginarium42.blogspot.com

Current research activities

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FUN, the Future of User-led News

Understand and predict the future media landscape in relation to news production and consumption
Develop and test new strategies and services for user creation of news
Develop a roadmap for the strategic integration of UGC news into future news production and consumption

National Design Policy

An Evaluative Framework for National Design Policy Initiatives. The overall aim of the project is to understand national design policy initiatives and the impact on design, related industries and the economy.

Vernacular Invention

Context specific knowledge has a great deal to offer design. The challenge is to identify and translate this knowledge into a form that designers can utilise within the design and development process. This project will result in a pan-European visual archive of innovation developed and applied outside the realm of professional design to improve the design process.

UITS User-Led Interactive TV services

UITS (User-led Interactive TV Services), funded by HEIF (Higher Education Funding Council for England), this project undertook ethnographic research and prototype development of innovative iTV services lead buy consumer demand rather than technical convenience. (Principle Investigator) 2004-06.

CISMUNDUS, C Space

CISMUNDUS, (Convergence of IP-based Services for Mobile Users and Networks in DVB-T and UMTS Systems). This was an €8.1 million project funded through the IST (Innovative Society Technology) initiative FP5. Bringing together '3G' and interactive TV in mobile devices, my roles in this project included, conceptual development, interface and service design 2001 – 2004, co-investigator.

Selected Publications

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Cruickshank L, Evans M, (2008) Media Communication, Consumption and Use: The changing role of the designer, Design Research Scociety Conference Sheffield 2008

Cruickshank L, Rose M, Peters M, Hamilton E, (2008) Footloose Thinking: Willful Divergence in Design, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. With Prof. Mary Rose and Dr.Ellie Hamilton, Design Networks, Falmouth 2008

Evans M, Cruickshank L, Hamilton E, Peters S, (2008), Fledgling Design: Transcending the Micro-Business through Leadership and Management Development, Design Networks, Falmouth 2008

Cruickshank L (2008), New Media / New Problems / New Methods - A Case Study of Interactive Video Production in Industry, IASDER, Hong Kong 2007

Cruickshank L, (2006) 'A Provocative Educational Application of a New Approach to Design Methodology'. Leon CruickshankWonderground - 2006 1-4 November, Design Research Society, International Conference in Lisbon

Cruickshank L, Hill A, Tsekleves E, Whitham R, Kondo K, (2007) 'Making Interactive TV Easier to Use: Interface Design for a Second Screen Approach' The Design Journal, Vol. 10.3 December 2007

J. Cosmas, L. Cruickshank, L. Elgohari, T. Itagaki, K. Krishnapillai, A. Lucas, L. Zheng (2005) 'Rapid Prototyping and Fast User Trial of Multimedia Broadcast and Cellular Services' Int. J Mobile Communications,. Vol. 3, No. 3, 2005, pp 263 - 286

Cruickshank L, (2004) 'C Space an adaptive, user led communication service exploiting the convergence of DVB-T and UMTS in portable devices'. Leon Cruickshank Mobile Entertainment: User Centred Perspectives organised by CRIC, University of Manchester 25-27th March 2004.PublishedMOBILE ENTERTAINMENT: User-centered PerspectivesEdited byKarenza Moore & Jason Rutter

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