Understanding Serendipity
These pages contains a variety of information that pertains in particularly to my PhD work, between the period of late 2005-2007. The PhD is in the area of Interaction Design, undertaken at the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne supervised by Dr Frank Vetere and Professor Steve Howard.
My PhD is in the field of Interaction Design. Most people are usually lost when I mention Interaction Design. So, here is one explanation as provided by wikipedia. The thesis title is Understanding Serendipitous Experiences when Interacting with Personal Digital Content. I hope to make a pdf version of this thesis available (via this site) very soon. Meanwhile, here is a pdf of the thesis abstract.
The 50-word citation I wrote (to be read) during my graduation gives a lay description of this thesis:
“Tuck investigated our experience of serendipity when we interact with digital music and photography. He theorized this experience and identified its key dimensions. We now better understand how to design technologies which allow us to experience serendipity positively, such as the iPod shuffle and the random article feature in wikipedia. ”
Currently...
I am a Post-Doctoral reseacher at the University of Aarhus working with the Digital Urban Living research group. It seems too that I will also be teaching the Urban Informatics Master subject druing Fall 2009.
About Me
Biodata
full name: Tuck Wah, LEONG
place of birth: Ipoh, Malaysia
arrived in Australia: 1984
Education
Ph.D. in Science (Interaction Design) The University of Melbourne
Bachelor of Science (Hons) Immunology: Monash University
Graduate Diploma Education: University of Melbourne
Master of Multimedia: Swinburne University
ARCM: Royal College of Music
LRCM: Royal College of Music
Current day Job
Post Doctoral researcher
Previous (major) Incarnations
immunology researcher
high school teacher (biology, music, indonesian language)
shoe designer
choral conductor, composer, arranger
associate lecturer
Other activities include:
- Member of the Interaction Design Group (IDG) at the Department of Information Systems. I also organised the IDG seminar series for over a year
- giving presentations about User-Experience research to undergraduates from the University of Melbourne as well as to Industrial Design staff and students at RMIT.
- external assessor for Industrial Design students at RMIT
- reviewing for HCI journals
- reviewing for conferences (OzCHI, CHI, NordiCHI)
