Since January 2008 I have been with ABB Strategic R&D for Oil, Gas and Petrochemicals at Oslo, Norway. The primary topic of my project is examining the opportunity for pervasive computing in the oil and gas context. In 2010 I commenced a new project focusing on telerobotics.

My over-arching speciality is human-computer interaction. That's a big tent, and I find a lot of things interesting within that, including ubiquitous computing, ambient visualisation, persuasive technology, computer-supported cooperative work and socio-technical systems. I’m particularly focused on the social dimension of technology and technology that bridges the gaps between established systems and practices.

 

Please also see my PhD thesis on mobile social software design (submitted November 2007, accepted April 2008), The University of Queensland.

• Heyer, C. (2010) “Human-Robot Interaction in Future Industrial Robotics Applications.” In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2010), Taipei, Taiwan. Forthcoming.
  
• Heyer, C. (2010) “Investigations of Ubicomp in the Oil and Gas Industry.” In Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP2010), Copenhagen, Denmark. Forthcoming.
  
• Heyer, C. and Brereton, M. (2010) “Design from the Everyday: Continuously evolving, embedded exploratory prototypes.” In Proceedings of Designing Interactive Systems 2010 (DIS'10), Aarhus, Denmark. Forthcoming.
  
• Heyer, C. (2009) “High-Octane Work: The oil and gas workplace.” In Proceedings of European Computer-Supported Cooperative Work 2009 (ECSCW'09), Vienna, Austria. Springer London, pp. 363-383.
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• Heyer, C. (2009) “The Å Publish/Subscribe Framework.” In Proceedings of Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing (UIC'09), Brisbane, Australia. LNCS 5585/2009 D. Zhang et al. (eds.) . Springer Berlin pp.99-110.
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• Heyer, C. and Grønning, I. (2008) “Cross Workplace Perspectives: Relating studies from hospitals to an oil and gas workplace.” In Proceedings of the 5th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction: building bridges (NordiCHI'08), Lund, Sweden. ACM, New York, pp.475-478.
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• Heyer, C., Brereton, M., and Viller, S. (2008) “Cross-channel mobile social software: an empirical study.” In Proceeding of the Twenty-Sixth Annual SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'08), Florence, Italy. ACM, New York, pp. 1525-1534.
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• Heyer, C. and Brereton, M. (2006) “Socializing Across Channels: Group multichannel communication.” In Proceedings of the 18th Australia Conference on Computer-Human interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments (OZCHI'06), Sydney, Australia. ACM, New York, pp. 421-424.
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• Heyer, C. and Diederich, J. (2002) “Tibianna: A Learning-Based Search Engine with Query Refinement.” In Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS'02), Sydney, Australia. University of Sydney. pp. 105-108.
• Heyer, C., Madden, J., Hollingsworth, K., Heydon, P., Bartlett, K. and J. Diederich, J. (2002) “MyNewsWave: User-centered Web search and news delivery.” In Proceedings of the Seventh Australasian Document Computing Symposium (ADCS'02), Sydney, Australia. University of Sydney, Australia. pp. 121-124
• Sutton, P., Brereton, M., Heyer, C. and MacColl, I. (2002) “Ambient Interaction Framework Software Infrastructure for the Rapid Development of Pervasive Computing Environments.” In Ubiquitous Computing Trends: Tricks and Traps. Australian Computing Society.

• Heyer, C. (2010). “Prototypes for Business Types.” Materialities Influencing the Design Process (at DIS'10), Aarhus, Denmark. Position statement.
• Heyer, C. and Brereton, M. (2008). “Reflective Agile Iterative Design.” Second Int'l Workshop on Mundane Technologies and Social Interaction (SIMTech'08), Cambridge, UK.
• Heyer, C., Skourup, C., Gunnar, J. and Pretlove, J. (2008) “Rethinking Industrial Robot Interaction.” Designing Robotic Artefacts with User- and Experience-Centred Perspectives. (at NordiCHI'08), Lund, Sweden.
• Heyer, C. and Brereton, M. (2007). “Leveraging mundane technologies for group mobile social communication.” Int'l Workshop on Mundane Technologies and Social Interaction (SIMTech'07), Melbourne, Australia.
• Heyer, C. (2004) “Sociable Wearable Design.” Doctoral Colloquium, Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computing (ISWC'04), Arlington, VA, USA).