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Short bio

I’m a researcher at WMG, University of Warwick, and at Brunel University in London, specialising in design for behaviour change for social and environmental benefit. I also do consultancy as Requisite Variety, much of which involves running workshops exploring design, people and systems. My Design with Intent toolkit is a resource of design patterns for influencing behaviour, drawn from a range of disciplines, that can be used as a brainstorming tool for designers and other stakeholders.

At present I’m working on EMPOWER, a TSB-funded collaboration with More Associates which aims to reduce workplace energy use through connecting people with energy and behavioural data in engaging ways. I also teach part of the Environmentally Sensitive Design module on Brunel’s product design courses.

In the past I’ve worked on folding bikes and mobility products with Sir Clive Sinclair, written a book about the Reliant Motor Company and studied Technology Policy at Cambridge. The Design with Intent and EMPOWER projects have provided opportunities to collaborate and engage with a diverse set of organisations including Philips Research, the RSA, IDEO, Department of Energy & Climate Change, Norwegian University of Science & Technology, Clearleft, Institute for Government and West Sussex County Council.

Longer bio

I’m a designer and researcher from the UK, and have come to specialise in design for behaviour change – applying techniques from a range of psychological and technical disciplines to the problems of influencing human behaviour for social benefit, via the design of products, systems, services and environments.

I’m interested in human behaviour, systems, environmentally sensitive design and engineering, the psychology of interaction with products/systems/environments, architecture and control, the relationship between technology and society, transportation (in many forms), mobility, digital rights, and widening the public’s practical understanding of technology. Overall, this is about design for independence: reducing society’s resource dependence, reducing vulnerable users’ dependence on other people, and reducing users’ dependence on ‘experts’ to understand and modify the technology they own.

At present, I’m a researcher for both Brunel and Warwick on the EMPOWER project, a collaboration with More Associates, alongside writing up my PhD, some teaching on the Environmentally Sensitive Design module for Brunel design undergraduates, and a number of freelance consultancy, workshop and lecturing/speaking projects under the Requisite Variety banner. In August 2008 I was invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (FRSA).

During my PhD at Brunel, supervised by Professors David Harrison and Neville Stanton, I have developed the Design with Intent toolkit for specific application to environmental problems, where influencing more sustainable user interaction behaviour can have a significant effect on resource use and waste, but the the work has found many applications beyond this context, in a number of areas of socially beneficial behaviour change. Version 1.0 of the toolkit, available under a Creative Commons licence, was downloaded over 100,000 times in the first six months after release, and has been used by designers and educators worldwide in a wide range of contexts as a brainstorming and teaching tool. The Design with Intent research arose from this blog, formerly ‘Architectures of Control in Design’, which since 2005 has chronicled examples of design and architecture intended to influence users’ behaviour, with significant input from readers.

Background

From 2000-4 I studied Industrial Design Engineering at Brunel University’s former Runnymede design school at Englefield Green in Surrey. During my sandwich year, 2002-3, I worked as a design engineer for Daka, carrying out R&D and manufacturing for Sir Clive Sinclair’s projects, including the A-Bike, WDU and Sea Scooter. Also at that time, I finished writing Rebel Without Applause, a history of the Reliant Motor Company which I’d been researching and writing since I was about 11 or 12, and which was finally published by Bookmarque in summer 2003. My final year major project at Brunel was a wheelchair drive system [PDF] inspired by much of what I’d learned working on mobility products—and most importantly, talking to wheelchair users.

After Brunel, I did a Cambridge-MIT Institute Master’s in Technology Policy at the Judge Institute of Management (now the Judge Business School), University of Cambridge, where I was a member of Downing College, from 2004-5. My dissertation on ‘architectures of control‘ in consumer products was the original basis of this blog, and set in train the process towards where I am now.

For the next two years after Cambridge, I did freelance research, design, R&D and writing work for a range of clients, most notably returning to work for Sinclair Research on lightweight transport projects directly, alongside Ben Wilson, as well as for companies such as Tangerine, Mayhem and PtS. I also developed Incluminate, a lighting backup product.

However, it was ongoing research, via this blog, into how design influences (and can be used to influence) human behaviour that was quickly becoming my ‘specialist subject’. It was the success of the blog, with so many comments and contributions from readers all over the world, which convinced me that I wanted to go back into academia, to try to apply some of what I’d learned about influencing behaviour for social (specifically, environmental) benefit. So in 2007 I returned to Brunel’s former Design department, by now merged and moved to Uxbridge, to start a PhD, generously funded by the Ormsby Trust and latterly the Thomas Gerald Gray Charitable Trust. This was probably one of the most important decisions I’ve ever made, and I think it was a good one – it’s certainly expanded incredibly the world of knowledge, experiences, travel, interesting people and opportunities in my life. A proper analysis of the last four years is something I look forward to thinking about once I’m safely on the other side!

I was born in 1982, grew up near Dawlish, Devon, went to school in Cockwood and in Exeter, and now live in Windsor, Berkshire with my wonderful girlfriend Harriet, and a fantastically productive allotment, our first major project together. I drive a Reliant Scimitar SST, a Reliant Fox pick-up truck, and ride a Sinclair Research A-Bike and a Strida 3. My aim is to leave the world in a better state than I found it.

dan@danlockton.co.uk | January 2012

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CV: Dan Lockton

Academic qualifications

PhD ‘Design with Intent: A design pattern toolkit for environmental & social behaviour change’, 2007–12 (expected). Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex (Cleaner Electronics Research Group, Brunel Design).
Development of Design with Intent, a design toolkit comprising patterns for influencing users’ behaviour. The aim is to improve the environmental performance of products through behaviour change, with wider applicability in interaction and system design for social benefit. Supervisors: Professor David Harrison, Brunel University and Professor Neville A. Stanton, University of Southampton.

MPhil Technology Policy, 2004–05. University of Cambridge, Downing College. (Cambridge-MIT Institute course, taught by Judge Institute of Management, Department of Engineering & Institute for Manufacturing). Dissertation: Architectures of Control in Consumer Product Design.

BSc (Hons) Industrial Design Engineering, 2000–04. Brunel University, Runnymede, Surrey (Department of Design & Systems Engineering). Major project: Wheelchair Drive.

Research interests

Design for social benefit; design for behaviour change; persuasive technology; design for sustainable behaviour; environmentally sensitive design; service design; participatory design; interaction design; human-computer interaction; human factors; cognitive ergonmics; user experience; mental models; systems theory; cybernetics; behavioural economics; architecture/built environment; practical technology; design methods; technology & society; technology policy; new product development; new manufacturing methods.

Current research project
EMPOWER: Empowering empathic energy efficiency design, 2010-12. Funded by Technology Strategy Board, EPSRC and More Associates (total project value: £580k).
Led by More Associates in collaboration with Brunel Design and WMG at the University of Warwick, EMPOWER focuses on better understanding the energy-use implications of people’s everyday interaction behaviour with workplaces, and developing a novel user-centred product/service system to reduce energy demand, building on More’s CarbonCulture platform already in use by several UK government departments. The research integrates insights from the latest work on design for behaviour change with a programme of user-driven product / service development, through a series of ethnographic investigations and participatory design workshops, providing a basis for commercial realisation. The expected benefits from better energy efficiency include both financial savings and CO2 emissions reduction, while the focus on engagement with building users will improve working environments. EMPOWER is one of four research programmes receiving investment from the Technology Strategy Board following a week-long creative sandpit on the theme of User-Centred Design for Energy Efficiency in Buildings in March 2010, in which I was chosen to take part. Brunel’s part in the project is led by Professor David Harrison as Principal Investigator; Warwick’s by Dr Rebecca Cain.

Academic experience

current / ongoing

WMG, University of Warwick, Research fellow, 2011-present. EMPOWER project
Brunel University, School of Engineering & Design, Lecturer (part-time), 2011–present. Teaching on DM3316 Environmentally Sensitive Design (Level 3) for design undergraduates
Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Guest instructor, 2011-present, TP2 Seminars in Technology Policy for MPhil Technology Policy course
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, Guest speaker, 2011, Designing Better Futures course (Saïd MBA + London College of Communication MDes)
Parsons, The New School for Design, New York, Guest speaker, 2011, Transdisciplinary Design MFA
Brunel University, School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics, Guest lecturer / workshop facilitator, 2011, undergraduate HCI module
Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Guest lecturer, 2011, Sustainable Product Design for Department of Product Design
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London, Visiting practitioner, 2010–present. Invited presentations to graphic design students and discussion on design for behaviour change
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, Invited presentation to design students and discussion on design for behaviour change, 2010
Brunel University, School of Engineering & Design, Research assistant, 2010–present. EMPOWER project
Brunel University, School of Engineering & Design, Teaching assistant / demonstrator, 2007–10. Assistance and assessment for Analogue Electronics labs (Level 2) and Environmentally Sensitive Design projects (Level 3) for design undergraduates, and Sustainable Design for MSc Integrated Product Design postgraduates including design for sustainable behaviour workshop sessions addressing everyday energy, water and resource use
Design and Behaviour online discussion group, Founder / co-administrator, 2008–present (mostly active 2008-9). A discussion group and mailing list bringing together designers, engineers, psychologists and social science researchers interested or working in the field of influencing behaviour, http://designandbehaviour.com
Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA), Design Directions student competition, 2009. Invited to help develop briefs on design for behaviour change as part of the 2009-10 competition open to UK design students; Design with Intent toolkit cited as reference material. Participation in RSA seminar on applying ingenuity to 21st century problems, October 2010
Participation in academic doctoral consortia at Persuasive 2008, Oulu; Persuasive 2009, Claremont; Persuasive 2010, Copenhagen; NDM9, London
Papers reviewed for Applied Ergonomics, International Journal of Design, Journal of Design Research, International Journal of Sustainable Engineering, Philosophy & Technology, Journal of Economic Surveys and Hawai’i International Conference on System Sciences 44

Behaviour change workshops and consultancy to industry & government

In 2008-12, I have run Design with Intent workshops and exercises for Philips Research, Eindhoven; with IDEO and the RSA for the National Policing Improvement Agency, London; for the Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network at a day on ‘Changing User Behaviour’; three workshops for Clearleft at UX London 2010 and dConstruct 2011; for Stanford University’s Persuasive Technology Lab, at the Persuasive 2010 conference, Copenhagen; for Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust at the Design Council, London; with Ripple PRD for West Sussex County Council, Horsham; for the 3TU Federation’s Design for Usability project at the University of Twente, Netherlands; at UX People 2011 in London for Zebra People; and at the IxDA Interaction 12 conference in Dublin. I’ve also run academic workshops on Design with Intent at the Norwegian Institute of Science & Technology, Trondheim and at Brunel for Design BA, BSc and MSc students as part of modules on Environmentally Sensitive Design and Sustainable Design, and Information Systems & Computing BSc students as part of a module in HCI, as well as controlled brainstorming workshops for my PhD, with both students and practising designers.

The areas of behaviour change addressed in the workshops have included increasing public engagement with the police, oral healthcare, improved user experience for a variety of websites, a range of hospital staff and patient behaviours for safety and productivity, building local authority behaviour change expertise, and encouraging building users to be comfortable with greater seasonal temperature variations.

As part of the EMPOWER project, I have helped run ethnographic studies, interviews and user engagement workshops with More Associates‘ CarbonCulture project at the Department of Energy & Climate Change, London. Other work with More Associates includes preparation of a state-of-art review on feedback methods for influencing sustainable behaviour, and participation in More’s idea generation workshop for Bovis Lend-Lease, Olympic Park, Stratford, London.

Aside from running workshops, I have given presentations on design, behaviour and Design with Intent to teams from: HMRC, QinetiQ, Sevenoaks; Marks & Spencer, London; Engine service design, London; UFI Learndirect, Sheffield; EMC Consulting, London; Foviance, London; Design Council, London; Nando’s, London (with Futerra); and the Technology Strategy Board, Swindon, on visit to Brunel.

In 2010 I was invited to discuss applying Design with Intent to behaviour change for financial decision-making in the US mortgage market and low-income banking sector by Harvard University‘s ideas42 think-tank. In 2009 I was invited to discuss the design of smart energy meters with the UK government’s Department of Energy & Climate Change, resulting in the Design & Behaviour group submission to DECC’s consultation. For the Design Council, I have taken part in an ‘expert workshop’ on using design to reduce violence and aggression in A&E, January 2011. For the Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network, I was invited to take part in a discussion at BRE, Watford, on user behaviour in dwellings in December 2010, and then to give a presentation and run an exercise at an event on user behaviour in buildings in March 2011. I’m also a member of the Institute for Government’s informal Behaviour Change network, which examines issues of behaviour change for social benefit from a variety of policy and practice perspectives.

Publications

Wherever possible I have provided a link to an open-access, free downloadable version of publications.

Peer-reviewed academic journal articles
[J3] Lockton, D., Harrison, D., Stanton, N.A. ‘Models of the user: designers’ perspectives on influencing sustainable behaviour’. Journal of Design Research (accepted for forthcoming special issue on design for sustainable behaviour)
[J2] Lockton, D., Harrison, D., Stanton, N.A. ‘The Design with Intent Method: a design tool for influencing user behaviour’. Applied Ergonomics Vol.41 No.3, pp. 382-392, May 2010, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apergo.2009.09.001 (open access preprint)
[J1] Lockton, D., Harrison, D., Stanton, N.A. ‘Making the user more efficient: Design for sustainable behaviour’. International Journal of Sustainable Engineering Vol.1 No. 1, pp. 3-8, March 2008, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19397030802131068 (open access preprint)

Academic conference papers & posters
[C6] Lockton, D., Cain, R., Harrison, D., Giudice, S., Nicholson, L. & Jennings, P. ‘Behaviour Change at Work: empowering energy efficiency in the workplace through user-centred design’. BECC 2011: Behavior, Energy & Climate Change, Washington, DC, November 30-December 2, 2011, University of California eScholarship repository (open access)
[C5] Lockton, D., Harrison, D. & Stanton, N. A. ‘Modelling the User: How design for sustainable behaviour can reveal different stakeholder perspectives on human nature’. In ERSCP-EMSU 2010, Delft, Netherlands, October 25-29, 2010, Proceedings, TU Delft (open access PDF)
[P1] Lockton, D., Harrison, D., & Stanton, N. A. ‘Concept Generation for Persuasive Design’. In Persuasive Technology: Fifth International Conference, Persuasive 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark, June 7-9, 2010, poster proceedings, University of Oulu Department of Information Processing Science (open access)
[C4] Lockton, D., Harrison, D. & Stanton, N. A. ‘Design for Sustainable Behaviour: investigating design methods for influencing user behaviour’. In Sustainable Innovation 09: Towards Sustainable Product Design 14, Farnham, UK, 26-27 October 2009, Proceedings, Centre for Sustainable Design, Farnham (open access preprint)
[C3] Lockton, D., Harrison, D. & Stanton, N.A. ‘Choice Architecture and Design with Intent’. In Wong, W & Stanton, N.A. (eds.), NDM9 – 9th Bi-annual International Conference on Naturalistic Decision Making, June 23-26, 2009, London, UK, Doctoral Consortium Proceedings, British Computer Society, Swindon (open access)
[C2] Lockton, D., Harrison, D., Holley, T., & Stanton, N. A. ‘Influencing Interaction: Development of the Design with Intent Method’. In Persuasive Technology: Fourth International Conference, Persuasive 2009, Claremont, California, April 27-29, 2009, Proceedings, ACM Digital Library, New York, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1541948.1541956 (open access preprint PDF)
[C1] Lockton, D., Harrison, D., & Stanton, N.A. ‘Design with Intent: Persuasive Technology in a Wider Context’. In H. Oinas-Kukkonen, P. Hasle, M. Harjumaa, K. Segerstahl, & P. Ohrstrom (Eds.), Persuasive Technology: Third International Conference, Persuasive 2008, Oulu, Finland, June 4-6, 2008, Proceedings (p. 274—278), Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 5033, Springer, Berlin, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-68504-3_30 (open access preprint PDF)

Professional and industry journal articles
[I4] Bisset, F. and Lockton, D. ‘Designing Motivation or Motivating Design? How service designers can create sustainable behavioural change’. Touchpoint: The Journal of the Service Design Network Vol.2 No.1, April/May 2010 (email me for a copy)
[I3] Marsh, N. and Lockton, D. ‘Research in practice: Bringing behaviour change from lab to studio’. Touchpoint: The Journal of the Service Design Network Vol.2 No.1, April/May 2010 (email me for a copy)
[I2] Lockton, D. ‘Design for sustainable behaviour: influencing users to improve efficiency of product use’ (‘My PhD’ series). Interfaces 78, British Computer Society Interaction Group, Spring 2009 (open access PDF)
[I1] Lockton, D. ‘Architectures of Control in product design’. Engineering Designer: The Journal of the Institution of Engineering Designers, March/April 2006 (open access PDF)

Reports commissioned for industrial partners & projects
[E6] Lockton, D. ‘Report on ‘Energy use and you’ ethnography sessions at [ABC organisation]’. For the EMPOWER project (More Associates, Brunel University, University of Warwick), April 2011.
[E5] Lockton, D. ‘Energy use and behaviour change at [ABC organisation]’. For the EMPOWER project (More Associates, Brunel University, University of Warwick), March 2011.
[E4] Lockton, D. ‘Report on ‘Mental models of HVAC systems’ ethnography sessions at [XYZ organisation]’. For the EMPOWER project (More Associates, Brunel University, University of Warwick), January 2011.
[E3] Lockton, D. ‘EMPOWER workshop report on Product Impact Symposium, University of Twente’. For the EMPOWER project (More Associates, Brunel University, University of Warwick), December 2010.
[E2] Lockton, D. ‘Comfort, energy & behaviour in the workplace: A review’. For the EMPOWER project (More Associates, Brunel University, University of Warwick), November 2010.
[E1] Lockton, D. ‘Design for behaviour change: A review’. For the EMPOWER project (More Associates, Brunel University, University of Warwick), November 2010.
[R1] Lockton, D. ‘Behaviour Change: State-of-Art Review’. For More Associates, London, March 2010.

Books, book chapters & toolkits
[D1.0] Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. Design with Intent: 101 Patterns for Influencing Behaviour Through Design v.1.0, Windsor: Equifine 2010 (ISBN 978-0-9565421-0-6 print; 978-0-9565421-1-3 eBook)
[D0.9] Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. Design for Behaviour Change: The Design with Intent Toolkit v.0.9, Uxbridge: Brunel University Press 2009 (ISBN 978-1-902316-6-1 print; 978-1-902316-63-5 eBook)
[χ2] Lockton, D., Harrison, D.J., Stanton, N.A. ‘Design for Behaviour Change’ in A.M. Columbus (Ed.): Advances in Psychology Research 67/69, Hauppauge: Nova Science Publishers 2010 (email me for a copy)
[χ1] Lockton, D. ‘Design with Intent: Influencing people’s behaviour through products & services’ in B. Davey et al (Eds.), 250 Innovative Ideas: Made in Brunel 2010, Papadakis, London 2010 (open access)
[B2] Weightman, C., Lockton, D., Hanson, J.E. et al (Eds.). Good Thinking: Brunel Design 04, Runnymede: Brunel University Press 2004 (ISBN 1-902316-41-X print)
[B1] Lockton, D. Rebel Without Applause: The Reliant Company from Inception to Zenith, Minster Lovell: Bookmarque 2003. (ISBN 978-1-8705196-4-9 print)

Patent applications
- Lockton, D. ‘Back up light for standard lamp fitting’. Filed 14 June 2006, publication number GB2435319 [withdrawn]

Miscellaneous other articles – see below

Conference & seminar presentations and workshops

IxDA Interaction 12: Dublin, February 2012. Workshop: ‘Design with Intent: Understanding users and influencing behaviour’.
BECC 2011, Behavior, Energy & Climate Change: Washington, DC, November-December 2011. Presentation: ‘Behavior Change at Work: Empowering Energy Efficiency in the Workplace Through User-Centered Design’.
UX People 2011: London, November 2011. Workshop (invited): ‘Running a gamut of gambits: exploring behaviour change strategies and design’.
dConstruct 2011: Brighton, August/September 2011. Workshop (invited): ‘Influencing behaviour: people, products, services and systems’.
Design for Conversion, 6th edition: Cologne, July 2011. Presentation (invited) – ‘Design, mental models and behaviour change’.
Designing Better Futures: Saïd Business School, Oxford, July 2011. Presentation (invited) – ‘Design and behaviour change for environmental benefit’.
User Experience for Social Change: UK Usability Professionals’ Association event, London, May 2011. Presentation (invited) – ‘Design with Intent: Influencing user behaviour for social benefit’.
Changing User Behaviour in Buildings: Modern Built Environment Knowledge Transfer Network event, London, March 2011. Presentation (invited) – ‘Using Design to Influence Behaviour in Buildings’.
London IA Meetup: London, February 2011. Presentation (invited): ‘Change, Work with, Ignore, Fail? Mental models, behaviour & choice architecture’.
Product Impact Symposium: University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, November 2010. Presentation (invited) – ‘The Design with Intent toolkit and the EMPOWER project’.
ERSCP-EMSU 2010: TU Delft, Netherlands, October 2010. Presentation: ‘Modelling the user: how design for sustainable behaviour can reveal different stakeholder perspectives on human nature’.
Design for Persuasion 2010: Ghent, Belgium, September 2010. Presentation (invited) – ‘Mental Model Matching and Behaviour Change’.
Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design: Invited presentation to design students and discussion on design for behaviour change, June 2010.
Persuasive 2010: Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen, June 2010. Workshop run for Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab: ‘Design with Intent: Using Design Patterns to Develop New Persuasive Technology Applications’.
Persuasive 2010: Royal School of Library & Information Science, Copenhagen, June 2010. Poster: ‘Concept generation for Persuasive Design using the Design with Intent toolkit’.
UX London 2010: London, May 2010. Two workshops (invited): ‘Design with Intent: How to influence behaviour online’.
Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design: Invited presentation to graphic design students and discussion on design for behaviour change, April 2010.
Loughborough University DeSRes 2010: Presentation on PhD research, April 2010.
Design for Persuasion 2009: Belgacom Surfhouse / Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen, Brussels, October 2009. Presentation (invited): ‘How to influence user behaviour: Design with Intent’.
Sustainable Innovation 09: Farnham, UK, October 2009. Presentation: ‘Design for Sustainable Behaviour: investigating design methods for influencing user behaviour’.
NDM9: British Computer Society, London, June 2009. Doctoral consortium presentation: ‘Choice Architecture and Design with Intent’.
Architectures of Control Symposium: Loughborough University, May 2009. Presentation (invited): ‘Architectures of Control: Design with Intent’.
Skillswap Goes Behavioural: Clearleft, Brighton, May 2009. Presentation (invited): ‘Design with Intent: How designers can influence behaviour’.
Persuasive 2009: Claremont Colleges, California, April 2009. Presentation: ‘Influencing Interaction: Development of the Design with Intent Method’.
Design-Behaviour: Making It Happen: engCETL, Loughborough University, October 2008. Presentation (invited): ‘Design for Sustainable Behaviour: Easier Efficiency by Influencing Interaction’.
Human Centred Design Institute seminar series: Brunel University, October 2008. Presentation (invited): ‘Design with Intent: How designers can influence interaction and help users help themselves’.
New Sciences of Protection: Designing Safe Living: Institute for Advanced Studies, Lancaster University, July 2008. Presentation (invited): ‘Design with Intent: behaviour-shaping through design’.
ReSCon 2008: Engineering & Design Student Conference: Brunel University, June 2008. Poster: ‘Design for Sustainable Behaviour’
Persuasive 2008: Oulu, Finland, June 2008. Presentation: ‘Design with Intent: Peruasive Technology in a Wider Context’.

Industrial experience prior to PhD

2004-07 Dan Lockton Research, Design & Engineering: Design, R&D and writing for clients including Sinclair Research, Tangerine, Mayhem and PtS. Variety of work including engineering and prototyping of radical future vehicles (with Ben Wilson), corporate identity & smartphone market segmentation research, toy design & prototyping, mechanical design of pharmaceutical packaging equipment, setting up collaborative blogs for designers, a series of 40 articles for the Inventor Resource website, and the independent development of Incluminate, a lighting backup system.

2002-03 Daka Research (UK) / Sinclair Research: Industrial design engineer. Lightweight transport design. Development of A-Bike, electric vehicles & wheelchair accessories for international markets, including FEA, solid modelling, concept generation and testing, prototyping, competitor analysis, technical investigation, literature production and customer-facing roles at trade shows.

Awards

2009-10 Thomas Gerald Gray Charitable Trust PhD Studentship
2009 Royal Academy of Engineering International Travel Grant to attend Persuasive 2009
2008 Fellowship of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)
2008 Vice-Chancellor’s Travel Prize to attend Persuasive 2008
2007-9 Ormsby Trust Design PhD Studentship
2007 Oxford Creativity Assistive Technology/TRIZ Competition, prize-winner
2006 Bosch Technology Horizons Award, runner-up
2006 Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award for Incluminate backup lighting system
2005 Cambridge University Entrepreneurs Award, winner for Wheelchair Drive project
2004 Motion Drives & Controls Award, winner for Wheelchair Drive project

Professional memberships

Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, fellow (FRSA); Institution of Engineering Designers; Design Research Society; ACM SIGCHI; British Computer Society Interaction group; Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors; Usability Professionals’ Association; IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society

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Miscellaneous other articles

Design, architecture and behaviour
- Lockton, D. ‘How do people understand heating, energy use and behaviour at [XYZ organisation]?’. Invited article for intranet blog at a UK public sector organisation, based on on ethnographic interviews with staff, March 2011.
- Lockton, D. ‘Designing with intent’. Review of Greengaged session Design for Life: Barriers to Behaviour Change. Invited article for Design Council / Greengaged website, September 2009 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘J.G. Ballard and the architecture of control’. Ballardian, January 2008 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Limiting frequncy of cigarette use’. Invited article for Design TAXI, April 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Designs on your freedom’. Gown magazine, University of Cambridge, Easter 2005 (link)

Plus the Architectures of Control / Design with Intent blog (2005 to date; 350+ published posts).

Technology, policy and society
- Lockton, D. ‘What will be the major drivers of technological change in the 21st century and how should we address the opportunities and risks it could bring?’, for Bosch / Royal Academy of Engineering Technology Horizons competition (runner-up), 2006 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Peer treasure: how firms outside the software industry can use open source thinking’. March 2005 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘How can we strengthen links between entrepreneurial companies and entrepreneurial universities in the UK?’ March 2005 (link)

Motor industry
- Lockton, D. ‘Not Purrrrrfect: The Reliant Kitten’. Original Tin No. 2, September 2006, (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Double-edged sword: The Reliant Scimitar SS1′. AROnline, the Unofficial Austin-Rover Web Resource, May 2006 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Motor vehicles in the developing world: options for sustainability’. (link)

Invention and entrepreneurship
- Lockton, D. ‘Applying for a Loan’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Applying for a Patent’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Balance Sheets’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Becoming an Entrepreneur’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Break Even Analysis’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Capital Equipment and Supply List’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Carrying Out a Commercial Assessment on Your Invention’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Conflicts of Interest’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Design Patents’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Experimentation’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Government Programmes’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘How Do I Raise Money for an Invention?’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘How to Avoid an Invention Company Scam’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘How to Do Your Own Preliminary Patent Search’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Improving Old Products’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Invention Promoters’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Investor Venture Capital’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Loan Applications For Your Invention’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘New Product Income Projections’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Non-Disclosure Agreements’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Obtaining Plant Patents When Discovering New Varieties of Plant’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Patent Examining Procedure’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Patent Search’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Presenting the Product’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Product Definition and Specifications’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Product Development Stages’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Proving You Were First to Invent’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Researching The Market’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Royalty Income Stream’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Securing a Licensing Agreement For Your Invention’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘Student Programmes and Young Inventors’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘The Invention Process – Gaining Inspiration & Utilising It’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
- Lockton, D. ‘The Top Ten Greatest Inventions’. Inventor Resource, 2007 (link)
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