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Centre for HCI Design

Prof Helen Petrie

Position: Professor of HCI
Email: h.l.petrie @ city.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7040 8481
Fax: +44 (0)20 7040 8859
Room: E524

Biography

Helen is Professor of Human Computer Interaction. Her main research interests are the design and evaluation of technologies for disabled and elderly people, the accessibility of the web for disabled people and the psychological impact of new technologies.

Helen is currently involved in the BenToWeb projects, LBS4All project which is investigating location-based services for visually disabled and elderly people, Tenuta which is training web developers in European projects in accessibility and usability techniques and TIMP project which aims to improve the manufacturing and design of tactile maps for visually impaired people. She was investigator on earlier The Disability Rights Commission formal investigation into website accessibility project, MultiReader: developed a multimedia reading system for electronic documents for people with a range of print disabilities and TeDUB.

Helen supervises the PhD of Jenny Darzentas, Chandra Harrison, Nony Kamm, Dean Mohamedally and Moshe Oved.

Helen is on the editorial board of the British Journal of Visual Impairment and she is a trustee of FAST, the Foundation for Assistive Technology. She is currently on the programme committees for Accessible Design in the Digital World, 23 - 25 August 2005, Dundee, Scotland, AAATE 2005: 8th European Conference for the Advancement of Assistive Technology in Europe, September 6 - 9 2005, Lille, France and GOTHI '05: Guidelines on Tactile and Haptic Interactions, 24 - 26 October, 2005, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Key publications

  • Petrie, H., Weber, G., and Fisher, W. (2005). Personalisation, interaction and navigation in rich multimedia documents for print-disabled users. IBM Systems Journal, 44(3).
  • Petrie, H., Fisher, W. Weimann, K. and Weber, G. (2004). Augmented icons for deaf computer users. Proceedings of CHI 2004: Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems. New York: ACM Press.
  • Salminen, A.-L., Petrie, H. and Ryan, S. (2004). Impact of computer augmented communication on the daily lives of speech-impaired children. Part I: Daily communication and activities. Technology and Disability, 16(3), 157 – 167.
  • Salminen, A.-L., Ryan, S. and Petrie, H. (2004). Impact of computer augmented communication on the daily lives of speech-impaired children. Part II: Services to support computer augmented communcation. Technology and Disability, 16(3), 169 – 177.
  • Hamilton, F., Petrie, H. and Carmichael, A. (2003). The VISTA Project: universal access to electronic programme guides for digital TV. In C. Stephanidis (Ed.), Universal access in HCI: inclusive design in the information society. (Volume 4 of the Proceedings of HCI International 2003). Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
  • Petrie, H., Fisher, W., Weber, G., Langer, I., Gladstone, K., Rundle, C. and Pyfers, L. (2002). Universal interfaces to multimedia documents. Proceedings of 4th IEEE International Conference on Multimodal User Interfaces (ICMI 02). Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society.
  • Petrie, H., O’Neill, A-M. and Colwell, C. (2002). Computer access by visually impaired people. In A. Kent and J.G. Williams (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Microcomputers Volume 28. New York: Marcel Dekker.
  • Petrie, H., Schlieder, C., Blenkhorn, P., Evans, G., King, A., O’Neill, A.-M., Ioannidis, G.T., Gallagher, B., Crombie, D., Mager, R., and Alafaci, M. (2002). TeDUB: a system for presenting and exploring technical drawings for blind people. . In K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus and W. Zagler (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 239: Computers Helping People with Special Needs. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
  • Penn, P., Petrie, H., Colwell, C., Kornbrot, D., Furner, S. and Hardwick, A. (2001). The perception of virtual textures and objects. In R. Murray-Smith and S. Brewster (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Proceedings of First Workshop on Haptic Human Computer Interaction. Heidelberg: Springer Verlag.
  • Petrie, H. (2001). Acessibility and usability requirements for ICTs for disabled and elderly people: a functional classification approach. In J.G. Abascal and C. Nicolle (Eds.), Inclusive guidelines for human computer interaction. London: Taylor and Francis. 0-748409-48-3.
  • Petrie, H. (2000). 100 hours alone with the Internet. In H. Kubicek, H. J. Braczyk, D. Klumpp and A. Rossnagel (Eds.), Global @ home. Heidelberg: Hutlig Verlag.
  • Ramsay, A.I.G. and Petrie, H. (2000). The tactile depiction of visual conventions: the advantage of explicit cues. British Journal of Visual Impairment, 18(1), 7 - 15.

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