Chris Hutchison

Current

Senior Lecturer at Kingston University

Past

Senior Lecturer at Nottingham Trent University
Lecturer at University of Sussex
Maitre de conferences at Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

Lecturer at University of Amsterdam

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Education

University of East Anglia
University of Sussex

Connections

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Industry

Higher Education

Websites

My Website

Chris Hutchison’s Summary

In brief: cognitive science, museum & heritage informatics, e-learning. I sit on the University's cross-faculty Heritage Working Group, and am closely involved in ProjectKingstonAfrica, led by Prof Catherine McDermott.

A single thread has woven together my diverse professional and personal interests and expertise in cognitive science (artificial intelligence, cognitive linguistics, cognitive anthropology), ICT4D, and heritage informatics: "computing the Other"--the understanding and formal modelling of interpersonal communication, beliefs, behaviour, and reasoning, in particular with respect to the (chiefly oral and textual) representation of Self and Other, to the mental model-based interpretation of the beliefs, reasoning and actions of the Other, and to the understanding of and resolution of conflict.

These interests have been brought to bear (and delivered conference and journal papers) on a range of projects and topics, including:

-- modeling the impact of informal organisational behaviour on structural change in a major computer manufacturer
-- innovative digital museum design (incl. funded projects in Belgium and Italy, and most recently the use of locative media in designing a 'museum without walls' for the Power Writers tour of Tower Hamlets, London)
-- studies in AI and cognitive modeling (incl. co-authorship of 'Computers & Thought: A Practical Introduction to Artificial Intelligence', MIT Press)
-- ethnographies of the workplace (incl. co-authorship with Duska Rosenberg of 'Design Issues in CSCW', Springer)
-- deconstructing international development and aid policy, esp. in Africa
-- e-learning in multi-cultural and cross-cultural settings; building shared 'models of knowing'
-- indigenous knowledge systems

Most of my work at the present time is focused on museum and heritage informatics, in particular with relation to [1] history and social remembering, [2] the museum as knowledge interface, and [3] heritage and health / wellbeing.

Chris Hutchison’s Specialties:

All things 'Museum 2.0' (underlying technologies of the 'read-write' web: PHP, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, etc)
AI programming (Prolog, LISP, POP-11) and cognitive modeling

Chris Hutchison’s Experience

Senior Lecturer

Kingston University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

April 1988 — Present (21 years 8 months)
Senior Lecturer

Nottingham Trent University

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

September 1987 — April 1988 (8 months)

Senior Lecturer in Computing, responsible for the teaching of artificial intelligence
Lecturer

University of Sussex

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

September 1986 — September 1987 (1 year 1 month)

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
Maitre de conferences

Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

October 1981 — September 1985 (4 years )

Maitre de conference (senior lecturer) in linguistics. Taught linguistics to students in deuxieme cycle (final two years of undergraduate degree programme); and linguistics and natural language processing to masters students.
Lecturer

University of Amsterdam

(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; UvA; Research industry)

October 1979 — July 1980 (10 months)

Lecturer in Linguistics

Chris Hutchison’s Education

University of East Anglia

PhD , Cognitive Linguistics
University of Sussex

MSc , Natural Language Processing. AI, Cognitive Science

Also active in the University's Anthropology & Linguistics Workshop

Additional Information

Chris Hutchison’s Websites:

My Website

Chris Hutchison’s Interests:

Cognitive science, linguistics, natural language processing, museum informatics, community informatics, ICT4D, cross-cultural communication, e-learning.