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Staff: Prof. Rob Procter

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Prof. Rob Procter

Organisation: NCeSS

Prior to joining NCeSS, Rob was leader of the Social Informatics Cluster, a multi-disciplinary research group within the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

His research focused on socio-technical issues in the design, implementation, evaluation and use of interactive computer systems, with a particular emphasis on ethnomethodologically-informed ethnographic studies of work practices, computer-supported cooperative work and participatory design.

Rob has published over 100 academic papers and has held grants from EPSRC, ESRC, MRC, DTI and EU.

Rob is PI on the ESRC-funded e-Infrastructure for social sciences project, Co-I on the MRC e-Science programme NeuroGrid project, the EPSRC usability and e-Science programme ADVISES project, the JISC-funded MEMETIC and StORe projects, and the EU funded AVROSS project. He also coordinates with Tom Rodden the joint NCeSS-eSI theme on the adoption of e-Research Technologies.

He is editor of the Health Informatics Journal, on the editorial boards of Interacting with Computers, the Enterprise Information Management Journal and the International Journal of IT Standards and Standardisation Research, and a co-editor of the forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work on Collaboration and e-Research.

Publications

Jirotka, M., Procter , R., Rodden, R. and Bowker, G. (2006). Special Issue on Collaboration and e-Research. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work.

Balka, E., Berg, M., Procter , R. and Rouncefield, M. Special Issue on CSCW and Dependable Healthcare Systems. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, to appear.

Anderson, S., Hardstone, G., Procter , R. and Williams, R. (2006). Supporting the Evolution of Organisational Information Systems. In Ackerman, M., Erickson, T. and Halverson, C. and Kellog, W. (Eds.) Evolving Information Artefacts, Springer.

Hartswood, M., Procter , R., Rouncefield, M, Slack, R. and Voss, A. (2006). Co-realisation: Evolving IT Artefacts by Design. In Ackerman, M., Erickson, T. and Halverson, C. (Eds.) Evolving Information Artefacts, Springer.

Clarke, K., Hardstone, G., Hartswood, M, Procter , R. and Rouncefield. M. (2006). Trust and Organisational Work. In Clarke, K., Hardstone, G., Rouncefield, M. and Sommerville, I. (Eds.). Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective. CSCW Volume 36, Springer.

Clarke, K., Hughes, J., Martin, D., Rouncefield, M., Sommerville, I. , Voss, A., Procter , R. Slack, R. and Hartswood, M. (2006). It's About Time: Temporal Features of Dependability. In Clarke, K., Hardstone, G., Rouncefield, M. and Sommerville, I. (Eds.). Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective. CSCW Volume 36, Springer.

Clarke, K. Martin, D., Rouncefield. M., Sommerville, I. , Voss, A., Gurr, C., Procter , R. Slack, R. and Hartswood, M. (2006). Explicating Failure. In Clarke, K., Hardstone, G., Rouncefield, M. and Sommerville, I. (Eds.). Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective. CSCW Volume 36, Springer.

Voss, A., Procter , R., Slack, R., Hartswood, M. and Rouncefield, M. (2006). Understanding and Supporting Dependability as Ordinary Action. In Clarke, K., Hardstone, G., Rouncefield, M. and Sommerville, I. (Eds.). Trust in Technology: A Socio-Technical Systems Perspective. CSCW Volume 36, Springer.

Michaelides, M., Buckingham Shum, S., Juby, B., Mancini, C., Slack, R., Bachler, M., Procter , R., Daw, M., Rowley, A., Chown, T. and De Roure, D. (2006). Memetic: From Meeting Memory to Virtual Ethnography & Distributed Video Analysis. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester , June 28th-30th.

Michaelides, M., Buckingham Shum, S., Juby, B., Mancini, C., Slack, R., Bachler, M., Procter , R., Daw, M., Rowley, A., Chown, T. and De Roure, D. (2006). Memetic: Semantic Meeting Memory. 1st International Workshop on Semantic Technologies in Collaborative Applications, Manchester , June 26th-28th.

Hartswood, M., Procter , R., Schopf, J.M., Slack, R., Ure, J. and Voss, A. Abstractions, Accountability and Grid Usability. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester , June 28th-30th, 2006.

Geddes, J, Lloyd, S., Procter , R., Ure, J., Simpson, A., Rossor, M., Fox, N., Hill, D., Hajnal, J., Lawrie, S., McIntosh, A., Johnstone, E., Wardlaw, J., Bath , P. and Watson, G. (2006). Designing for e-Health: Recurring Scenarios in Developing Grid-based Medical Imaging Systems for Clinical Trials. In Proceedings of the HealthGrid Conference , Valencia , June 7th-9th.

Geddes, J, Lloyd, S., Procter , R., Ure, J., Simpson, A., Rossor, M., Fox, N., Hill, D., Hajnal, J., Lawrie, S., McIntosh, A., Johnstone, E., Wardlaw, J., Bath , P. and Watson, G. (2006). The Challenges of developing a collaborative data and compute grid for Neurosciences. In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Salt Lake City , June 22nd-23rd.

Michaelides, M., Buckingham Shum, S., Juby, B., Mancini, C., Slack, R., Bachler, M., Procter , R., Daw, M., Rowley, A., Chown, T., De Roure, D. and Hewitt, T. (2006). MEMETIC: An Infrastructure for Meeting Memory. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative systems. France , Provence , May 9-12.

Jirotka, M., Procter , R., Hartswood, M., Slack, R., Coopmans, C., Hinds, C. and Voss, A. (2005). Collaboration and Trust in Healthcare Innovation: the eDiaMoND Case Study. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 14(4), p. 369-389.

Alberdi, E., Povyakal, A., Strigini, L., Hartswood, M., Procter , R. and Slack, R. (2005). The use of Computer Aided Detection tools in screening mammography: A multidisciplinary investigation. British Journal of Radiology, special issue on Computer-aided diagnosis, 78, 31-40.

Hartswood, M., Ho, K., Procter , R., Slack, R. and Voss, A. (2005). Etiquettes of Data Sharing in Healthcare and Healthcare Research. In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on e-Social Science, Manchester , June 22nd-24th.

Geddes, J, Lloyd, S., Procter , R., Simpson, A., Rossor, M., Fox, N., Hill, D., Hajnal, J., Lawrie, S., McIntosh, A., Johnstone, E., Wardlaw, J., Bath , P. and Bullmore, E. (2005). NeuroGrid: Using Grid technology to advance Neuroscience. In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, Dublin , June 23rd-24th.

Hartswood, M., Jirotka, M., Procter , R., Slack, R., Voss, A. and Lloyd, S. (2005). Working IT out in e-Science: Experiences of requirements capture in a HealthGrid project. In Proceedings of the HealthGrid Conference, Oxford , April 7th-9th.

Hartswood, M, Procter , R., Rouncefield, M. and Slack, R. (2003). Making a Case in Medical Work: Implications for the Electronic Medical Record. Journal of Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, 12(3), p. 241-66.

Contact Details

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