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1. Kristine Deray is an academic and design / research consultant. Her research and creative practice is
interdisciplinary spanning, design, human computer interaction, human movement and the creative
arts. Her research centers on the lived experience of people and how interaction shapes such
experience, with an emphasis upon the way communication as a dynamic interactive process,
unfolds between people and, between people and technologies. She is particularly engaged with
the exploration and the application of novel interactive interfaces based on physical metaphors. An
ongoing tenet in her research is the exploration of human movement as a system in action that is
capable of constructing a language. Design methods and tools for, human centered and
participatory –collaborative design, are areas actively engaged with in her ongoing research and
professional activity.
Kristine Deray’s doctoral thesis, Human Movement as a Framework for Developing Computational
Representations of Interactions, investigated the process of interaction, and how that process is
enacted. The conceptual modelling that enables the method for designing representations of
interactions follows the elements of human movement. The thesis provides a framework for
extracting information about: the interaction process, the dynamics of interactions, how to utilize
that information in order to improve the process itself, and, construct from interpretative analysis
responses to complex design issues. Specifically the thesis contributed, a methodology for
modeling interactions, the InteractionSystem (IS) methodology, based on the analogy between two
physical systems; a visual language, Kinetic InterActing (KIA), for expressing information about the
interaction process; a methodology for qualitative and quantitative analysis of interactions that
introduces an alternative conceptual organization for the space of techniques concerning visual
analysis; and, design guidelines for visualisation of information about the interaction process that
support flexible, extendable and modular features of the language and assist with replication of the
language over different displays , such as, mobile systems.