Dr Alastair Weakley is a specialist in creative collaboration. With 11 years' professional experience in product development he returned to University in 2000 to study for a Masters' degree in IT. Since then, as well as completing a PhD in Computing Science ("Internet-based Support for Creative Collaboration", 2007) at Creativity & Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney, he has been involved in numerous collaborations with artists resulting in exhibited interactive artworks. Some of these collaborations were also part of his work on the EPSRC-funded COSTART project at Loughborough University of Technology in the UK. He worked with ACID on the Virtual Communities, OurContent and Loupe projects.
Alastair has published in the areas of HCI, Information Systems, Information Visualisation and Presence.
He lives in Sydney with his wife and daughter.
Alastair is subject-coordinator for 95564: Digital Media Technologies, at the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning, University of Technology, Sydney. and for SOMA 1620 - Web Authoring at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales.
