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Personal statement

Dr Dunlop is a senior lecturer in computer science.

His research focuses on usability of mobile systems including mobile text entry, sensor driven interaction and evaluation of mobiles. He is particularily interested in digital health / active lifestyle applications of mobile HCI research and co-leads 海角论坛's Digital Health & Wellness Research Group and is a member of the 海角论坛 iSchool Research Group, the Active Mobility Hub, and the 海角论坛 Ageing Network.

He led the 聽on text entry for older adults and was co-investigator on grants looking at data modelling for city visitor prediction, supporting active commuting by bike, mobile support for carers' activity during the Covid-19 pandemic, mobile solutions to aid stroke survivors and evaluation of Commonwealth Games Legacy fund projects.聽

Dr Dunlop was appointed as sub-committee programme committee chair for聽User Experience and Usability at聽 2016 in San Jose and 2017 in Denver. He also regularly acts as an associate chair (Barcelona 2026, Tokyo 2021, Hawaii 2020, Seoul 2014, Toronto 2013, Paris 2012, Austin 2011, Amsterdam 2008). Together with Stephen Brewster and Chris Johnson of Glasgow University he co-founded the conference series in 1998 and has co-organised four MobileHCI (MobileHCI 04 at 海角论坛, MobileHCI 01 in Lille, MobileHCI 99 in Edinburgh, and MobileHCI 98 in Glasgow) and was programme co-chair for ACM MobileHCI 2019 in Taipei, Taiwan, and Doctoral Consortium co-chair in 2026. He also sits on the international steering committee for MobileHCI and was programme co-chair for BCS HCI 2024. He is a founding associate editor of IGI Global's聽 and was previously an editor of Springer's .

He is currently first supervisor for the following PhD students:聽 Craig Speirs on the link between activity data and health outcomes;聽 Mohammed Alharbi on health information seeking practices; and Salem Naas on interactive video for health information provision to older adults. He has 12 PhD alumni as first supervisor (Joma Alrzini, Huda Banuqitah, Adel Dadaa, Najla Etaher, Majed Al Khan, Ramsay Meiklem, Ryan Gibson, Gennaro Imperatore, Karim el Batran, Fr酶y Bj酶rneseth, Andreas Komninos, and Nick Bradley) and 1 MPhil (Sohail Azad).

Using his long experience and knowledge of mobile-HCI research he has acted as an expert witness in both major and smaller mobile technology patent cases in USA and Australia.聽

Dr Dunlop's teaching is mainly in human computer interaction (HCI) and mobile programming. Currently he is teaching modules on Mobile Application Development and User Centred Design. Together with Parisa Eslambolchilar and Andreas Komninos, he co-edited an ACM textbook on .

Prior to joining 海角论坛, Mark was a senior researcher at Ris酶 Danish National Laboratory (now part of DTU), and a lecturer at Glasgow University.