Alan Dix is Emeritus Professor at Swansea University and Cardiff Metropolitan University. His research is focused broadly on human–computer interaction and he is lead author of one of the major textbooks in the area as well as other books on digital design and AI.  He has worked in various aspects of digital heritage with a particular focus on small communities and informal data.  This has included a mobile app for the island archive on Tiree, a remote Scottish island; digital archives for local musical societies; and QR-code based installations for Troedrhiwfuwch, a Welsh village that was evacuated in the 1980s.  He is part of the steering group of CHART, Swansea University's heritage research group.

Publications

Alan Dix, Elizabeth Jones, Rachel Cowgill, Charlotte Armstrong, Rupert Ridgewell, Michael Twidale, J. Stephen Downie, Maureen Reagan, Christina Bashford, David Bainbridge, Carys-Ann Neads and Vince Davies (2024). Enriching Cultural Heritage Communities: New Tools and Technologies . Interacting with Computers, iwae009. DOI:10.1093/iwc/iwae009

Alan Dix and Elizabeth Jones (2024) A flexible QR-code infrastructure for heritage. AVICH 2024: Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces and Interactions in Cultural Heritage @ AVI 2024 - 17th International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, 4th June 2024, Arenzano (Genoa), Italy. https://alandix.com/academic/papers/AVI2CH2024-qrarch/

Cowgill, R. E., Bainbridge, D., Dix, A., Hoyle, V., Fong, V., and Thomas, D. (2024). (Re)capturing the Emotional Geography of Lost Music Venues: A Case Study of the Willow Community Digital Archive. In D. M. Weigl (Ed.), DLfM 2024: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology, ACM. DOI:10.1145/3660570.3660579