Richard Harper on Research

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Researchers explore issues, solve problems and anticipate trends that can shape new frontiers and future directions. Richard Harper is the author of 14 books, including the IEEE award-winning "The Myth of the Paperless Office"; "Texture" (the A.o.I.R. book of the year 2011); and "Skyping the Family" (2019). He has also published over 200 scientific and has 27 patents. His research looks at how people engage with each other through technology and the implications for engineering and concepts of the individual in the digital age. His research is thus directly pertinent to the topic of digital exclusion. He is Director of the Institute of Social Futures at Lancaster University, which coheres humanities and social science research with natural and physical sciences and engineering. He is a Fellow of the IET, the Royal Society of Arts, and ACM Fellow. The bulk of his career has been spent in commercial research, Xerox and Microsoft in particular.

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