I am a member of the Interactive Worlds Applied Research Group at Coventry University. My current research involves the investigation and evaluation of Social Networking and Web 2.0 applications in teaching and learning.

Previously I was awarded an IPED Research scholarship investigating the usability of discussion forums in an academic context

 

Research interests current:

• Social Networking and Web 2.0 applications in teaching and learning.
• Student perceptions of asynchronous collaborative tools
• Subversions: User responses to innapropriately specified technology
• Usability and Small business E-Commerce
• Transgenerational consumption patterns of digital cultural goods (Web 2.0, download culture)

 

Research interests secondary:

• Cultural theory and technology
• Philosophical foundations of Technical Communication, Information Design and HCI.
• Digital audio - tools and architectures - Informational use of sound.

 

Publications and other academic activities

Every, P. 2009. The infantilisation of the student body. How it occurs and why it must stop. iPED 2009 conference, Coventry UK. (Forthcoming)

Every, P. (2009) E-commerce in the era of social networking and Web 2.0 applications – A training course. Course materials and delivery for an ECIF funded (£20,000) industrial training short-course. September 2009.

Every, P and Shuttleworth, J. 2009. Research Grant: CILASS / Inquiry Based Learning. Creative Development Activity Case Study (£2,550).

External Subject Advisor in Creative and Games Computing - Foundation Degree Course Validation for Wolverhampton University and NEW College Bromsgrove. July 2009.

Peter Every.  2009. ‘A creative approach to computing’ Coventry Conversations. http://coventryuniversity.podbean.com/

Peer reviewer, research papers submitted to the HCI 2009 conference, Cambridge UK (June 2009)

Peer reviewer, research papers submitted to the iPED 2009 conference, Coventry UK (June 2009)

Bhula, I and Every, P. 2007. Identifying Non-Functional Factors Affecting Student Participation In Discussion Boards for Online Learning. Proceedings of the Second International iPED conference: Researching Academic Futures. (Forthcoming)

Pedagogical Research Scholarship Award (£10,000) - iPED research Network. 2007.

Invited Talk: Web 2.0 and politics - strategies for countering ever dwindling communities of intolerance. Coventry University Students Union Technology Forum. April 2007.

Invited Book proposal reviewer. Wiley Publishing. New HCI Textbook. April 2007

Open Forum? Assessing the Usability of Discussion Boards in Higher Education Teaching And Learning (Poster) at The First International iPed Conference 2006 ‘Pedagogic Research and Academic Identities’ Coventry University, September 2006.

Programme Board Member SIGDOC 2005.

Usability in E-Commerce: Why are SME's getting it so wrong? Design Institute Seminar. November 2002.

Chris Condos, Anne James, Peter Every, Terry Simpson. Ten usability principles for the development of effective WAP & m-commerce services. ASLIB proceedings. Vol 54, No 6. 2002.

Film and Postmodernism (with Valerie Hill) in The Routledge Companion to Postmodern Ed. Stuart Sim. Routledge. 1999 (revised 2004)

Reality Bites - VR and literary realism. MIS seminar series, Oct 2000.

Slipping through the net: Realism and virtual spaces. VRI 98 Workshop, Liverpool University.

InfoDesign '98 Information Design and the Learning Society (Churchill college, Cambridge - academic organiser)

InfoDesign '97 (Churchill college, Cambridge - academic organiser)

Electronic Empires Conference (Coventry 1996 - organiser)