Meet the people who make up STEM Faculty.
Simon is Professor of Music and Human Computer Interaction in the School of Computing and Communication at the Open University. He is Founder and Director of the Music Computing Lab, and a member of the Centre for Research in Computing and the Interaction Design Research Group. Simon’s research interests are in Music Computing, Digital Health and Human Computer Interaction.
Simon Holland founded and directs the Music Computing Lab, a research group in the Centre for Research in Computing. His research focuses on the interconnected areas of Music Computing, Human Computer Interaction, and Digital Health. He has served as PI or Co-I on ten external research grants, totalling over £7 million, including PlaceMUS XR (EU, €4M), ( Polifonia (EU, €3M), the HAPPIE Haptic Authoring Pipeline for Immersive Experiences (Innovate UK, £1M), the AHRC E-Sense Project on digitally enhanced senses, £200,000), the Haptic Bracelets (Goldcrest Trust), the ESRC Older People and Technological Inclusion ESRC project, and the NATO Science Committee. He has published over 100 refereed research articles, and co-edited two seminal books on Music and HCI. He was co-author of Human Computer Interaction (Preece et al)— for many years the worldwide best seller in HCI. He was a founding member of the editorial Board of the Journal of Music Technology and Education. He was lead organizer of two international workshops on Music and HCI, the most recent at CHI 2016 in San Jose. He has devised numerous human-centred computing systems and interaction techniques including Harmony Space, the Haptic Bracelets, the Haptic Drum Kit, the Audio GPS, and a new and highly expressive form of interaction, Direct Combination. He has supervised 16 PhD students to completion, and examined 24 PhDs. He is currently co-Investigator on the Innovate-UK funded project, Happie - Creative touch, Design prototyping, and leads a research collaboration with PJ Care Neurological Care Homes.
He is lead Editor of New directions in music and human-computer interaction. Eds. Holland S, Mudd T, Wilkie-McKenna K, McPherson A, Wanderley MM Springer, London. ISBN 978-3-319-92069- 6 (2019).
Simon has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Tutoring systems, Human Computer Interaction, Smalltalk, Object Oriented Programming and Design and Software Engineering. He was been presentation chair of M868, and has taught on PMT80, PMT607, M868, M206, M255 M256, M250, TM354, TM356 He is is currently teaching on TM255, Communication and Information Technologies, and TM356, Interaction design and the User Experience.
