pervasive media studio

Kenton O'Hara

Kenton O’Hara is Senior Researcher in the Socio Digital Systems Group at Microsoft Research in Cambridge where he is interested in body based interaction, brain computer interaction and crowd computer interaction. His research explores everyday practices and social behaviours relating to mobile and ubiquitous computing and digital displays in public spaces. He has looked at a wide range of technologies applications in public settings, including crowd based games with large displays, location based experiences with barcode readers, mediascape authoring, cross media alternate reality games, interactive tabletops, collaborative jukeboxes.

Kenton has authored 60 publications and two books on and public displays and collaborative music consumption. He has previously worked at at CSIRO in Australia as Director of the HxI Initiative, HP Labs, Rank Xerox EuroPARC and the Appliance Studio. He has worked on numerous award winning projects including the BBC’s BAFTA and Royal Television Society award winning “Coast” location based experience.