Steve Benford (Professor)
Visiting Professor
Biography
Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at the University of Nottingham. He currently holds an EPSRC Dream Fellowship and is the Director of the EPSRC-funded Horizon Doctoral Training Centre in Ubiquitous Computing. He is also a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge and was the first Visiting Professor at the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ in 2012 through to early 2013. Academically, Steve has received best paper awards at the ACM's annual Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference in 2005, 2009, 2011 and 2013 (with honorable mentions in 2016 and 2013). He also won the 2003 Prix Ars Elctronica for Interactive Art, the 2007 Nokia Mindtrek award for Innovative Applications of Ubiquitous Computing, and has received four BAFTA nominations. He was elected to the CHI Academy in 2012. His book Performing Mixed Reality was published by MIT Press in 2011.
