Dr Edward Anstead
Lecturer and co-director of undergraduate studies. Research interests include Human Computer interaction and e-learning.
Staff details
Edward is a Lecturer in the Department of computing. He has been working at Goldsmiths’ since September 2016. He is a co-director of undergraduate studies. His current teaching focuses on Software engineering and programming, he also supervises final year projects on topics including, HCI, mobile app development, games and physical computing.
Edward's primary research focus is on Human computer interaction (HCI). He is particularly interested in how collocated groups interact with a range of technologies. Recently he has been researching the effects of E-learning and gamification on programming education.
You can find out more about Edward at his personal website edwardanstead.com.
Academic qualifications
- BSc Computer Science (Hons); University of Leicester 2005
- MSc Human Centred Computer Systems; University of Sussex 2009
- PhD Many-Screen Viewing: Collaborative Consumption of Television Media Across Multiple Devices. University Of Nottingham 2016
Teaching and supervision
- IS51042B: Logic and Computer Architecture
- IS52046B: Human Computer Interaction: Theory Practice and Application
- IS53007D: Computing Project (Final year dissertation)
- IS53034A: Interaction Design
Research interests
Edward's main research interests are in the field of human computer interaction, focusing on collaborative group practices with distributed devices. He is particularly interested in shared media, including television, video and photography. He has also published work on videographic processes and ethical data collection. More recently, Edward’s research has focused on developing auto-graded tools for teaching programming and how these can be effectively administered to students from diverse discipline.
Publications and research outputs
Book Section
- Digitally supported assessment Havemann, Leo; Katan, Simon; Anstead, Edward; Gillies, Marco; Stroud, Joanna and Sherman, Sarah. 2023. Digitally supported assessment. In: Linda Amrane-Cooper; David Baume; Stephen Brown; Stylianos Hatzipanagos; Phillip Powell; Sarah Sherman and Alan Tait, eds. Online and Distance Education for a Connected World. London: UCL Press, pp. 195-210. ISBN 9781800084810
Article
- Companion apps for information-rich television programmes: representation and interaction Dowell, John; Malacria, Sylvain; Kim, Hana and Anstead, Edward. 2015. Companion apps for information-rich television programmes: representation and interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(7), pp. 1215-1228. ISSN 1617-4909
Conference or Workshop Item
- Work In Progress: Sleuth, a programming environment for testing gamification Katan, Simon and Anstead, Edward. 2020. 'Work In Progress: Sleuth, a programming environment for testing gamification'. In: 2020 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON). Porto, Portugal 27 - 30 April 2020.
- Interaction with a TV Companion App as Synopsis and Supplement Dowell, John and Anstead, Edward. 2017. 'Interaction with a TV Companion App as Synopsis and Supplement'. In: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Denver, United States May 2017.
- Many-screen viewing: evaluating an olympics companion application Anstead, Edward; Benford, Steve and Houghton, Robert J. 2016. 'Many-screen viewing: evaluating an olympics companion application'. In: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. Newcastle, United Kingdom 2016.
Thesis
- Many-screen viewing: collaborative consumption of television media across multiple devices Anstead, Edward. 2016. Many-screen viewing: collaborative consumption of television media across multiple devices. Doctoral thesis, University of Nottingham