Professor David Benyon

Professor David Benyon is head of the Centre for interaction Design at Edinburgh Napier University. He obtained an MSc in Computing and Psychology and completed his PhD in 1993 on the subject of Intelligent User Interfaces. Prof. Benyon has written or edited twelve books on Human-Computer Interaction and published over a hundred and fifty academic papers on interaction design and user experience. He is co-author of the book Designing with Blends (MIT press, 2005) that provides the foundation for the conceptual blending approach to creativity and single author of Spaces of Interaction, Places for Experience (Morgan and Claypool, 2014) where he develops the ideas of blended spaces.  Over the last 7 years he has obtained funding of over £1,500,000 to support his research including six major EC grants. Prof. Benyon is a member of several professional societies and is on the editorial board for the journals Knowledge-Based Systems, and mUX: The journal of mobile user experience. He is author of a major textbook in interaction design entitled Designing Interactive Systems (Pearson, 2005, second edition 2010, 3rd edition 2013).