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University of Lincoln
Brayford Pool
Lincoln
Lincolnshire
LN6 7TS
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Mr Derek Foster
Lecturer
School of Computer Science
Faculty of Science
About Derek Foster
I am a lecturer in the University of Lincoln’s Social Computing (LiSC) research centre where I work researching social applications in a wide range of contexts, current focus is on behaviour change for sustainability. My background is in Computer Science with a strong interest in Human Computer Interaction. With a wide range of CS and HCI skills I design, build and evaluate social applications on both mobile and web platforms leading to interesting empirical research and innovation.
Department Responsibilities
Currently I lecture on the School of Computer Science ‘Social Applications Development’ (SAD) & HCI modules. SAD covers mobile application development in a social context using cloud services while HCI covers the full life-cycle of user-centred design.
Subject Specialism
Human-Centred Interaction Technologies, Cloud and mobile platform technologies
Qualifications
- MSc Human Computing Interactive Technologies (University of York) — University of York, 2009
- BSc Internet Computing (University of Lincoln) — University of Lincoln, 2008
- HND Computing (Lincoln College) — Lincoln College, 2007
- City and Guilds NVQ 4 in HGV Mechanical/Electrical Systems — City and Guilds, 1995
- PhD Computer Science (Current - University of Lincoln)
Awards
- Awards
- British Computing Society award for ‘Highest Overall Mark’ in HND Computing
- James Hodgson Memorial Award for outstanding achievement in HND Computing
- Siemens Award for outstanding achievement in information technology
- Awarded full EPSRC studentship at University of York for MSc
- Awarded full PhD studentship at University of Lincoln
- Best Poster Award at 1st International UBI Summer School , Oulu, Finland
- Best Full Academic Paper at ACM Mindtrek 2010 Conference , Tampere, Finland
- JISC Tranformations Programme - KillaWhats Student Energy Study £15k
- Microsoft Azure Educators Grant £26k
Professional Affiliations
- MBCS
- Member of Program Committee for SocialCom (ACE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing)
- Member of Program Committee for Interact (IFIP/Springer International Conference on Human Computer Interaction)
- Technology Strategy Board assessor for 2012 ‘Internet of Things Ecosystem Demonstrator’ competition
Research Interests
Research in the Lincoln Repository
- Foster, Derek and Linehan, Conor (2013) ‘Liking’ carbon: can social media play a role in carbon management?. Carbon Management, 4 (1). pp. 1-4. ISSN: 1758-3004
- Foster, Derek (2011) Carbon cutting: socially mediated energy reductions in the workplace. Interfaces Magazine (87). pp. 22-23. ISSN: 1351-119x
- Foster, Derek and Linehan, Conor and Lawson, Shaun (2011) Persuasion invasion: using Facebook for behavioral change. User Experience (UX) Magazine, 10 (2). pp. 8-10.
- Foster, Derek and Lawson, Shaun (2013) ‘Liking’ persuasion: case studies in social media for behaviour change. In: CHI 2013, 27 Apr - 5 May 2013, Paris, France.
- Foster, Derek and Lawson, Shaun and Linehan, Conor and Kirman, Ben (2012) Hip to be square: designing serious apps for coolness. In: CHI 2012 Cool aX Continents, Cultures and Communities Workshop, 5-10 May 2012, Austin, Texas.
- Foster, Derek and Lawson, Shaun and Linehan, Conor and Wardman, Jamie and Blythe, Mark (2012) 'Watts in it for me?' Design implications for implementing effective energy interventions in organisations. In: CHI 2012, 5-10 May 2012, Austin, Texas.
- Foster, Derek and Lawson, Shaun and Winn, Joss and Noble, Howard and White, David (2011) Using grounded theory to inform the design of energy interventions for the workplace. In: Digital Engagement 2011, November 15th-17th, Newcastle, UK.
- Foster, Derek and Kirman, Ben and Linehan, Conor and Lawson, Shaun and Mills, Daniel and Ellis, Sarah and Zulch, Helen (2011) “I Can Haz Emoshuns?”: understanding anthropomorphosis of cats among internet users. In: 3rd International Conference on Social Computing, Oct 9-11, MIT Boston.
- Foster, Derek and Linehan, Conor and Lawson, Shaun and Kirman, Ben (2011) Power ballads: deploying aversive energy feedback in social media. In: CHI 2011, May 7-12 2011, Vancouver, Canada.
- Wilson, Max and Foster, Derek and Lawson, Shaun and Eddison, Simon (2011) Nudging people at work and other third-party locations. In: CHI 2011, May 7-12, Vancouver, Canada.
- Foster, Derek and Lawson, Shaun and Blythe, Mark and Cairns, Paul (2010) Wattsup? Motivating reductions in domestic energy consumption using social networks. In: NordiCHI 2010, October 16-20, Reykjavik, Iceland.
- Foster, Derek and Linehan, Conor and Kirman, Ben and Lawson, Shaun and James, Gary (2010) Motivating physical activity at work: using persuasive social media for competitive step counting. In: 14th MindTrek Conference, 6th-8th October, Tampere, Finland.
- Foster, Derek and Linehan, Conor and Lawson, Shaun (2010) Motivating physical activity at work: using persuasive social media extensions for simple mobile devices. In: Workshop on Nudge & Influence Through Mobile Devices, September 7-10, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Foster, Derek and Blythe, Mark and Cairns, Paul and Lawson, Shaun (2010) Competitive carbon counting: can social networking sites Make saving energy more enjoyable?. In: Proceedings of the 28th of the international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, CHI 2010, April 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.
- Kirman, Ben and Linehan, Conor and Lawson, Shaun and Foster, Derek and Doughty, Mark (2010) There's a monster in my kitchen: using aversive feedback to motivate behaviour change. In: Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems (alt.CHI), April 10-15 2010, Atlanta.
- Foster, Derek and Blythe, Mark and Lawson, Shaun and Doughty, Mark (2009) Social networking sites as platforms to persuade behaviour change in domestic energy consumption. In: AISB 2009, Edinburgh, UK.
- Lawson, Shaun and Foster, Derek and Elliot, Mike (2008) Harnessing human computation via social networking technologies for citizen science and biodiversity monitoring. In: Proc of BioDivGrid 08, Amsterdam.
