Kevin Walker

  • Qualifications and position:
    • Visiting Fellow
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Centre:
    • London Knowledge Lab
  • Summary:
    • I am a Research Officer at the London Knowledge Lab working on projects in mobile technologies, science learning, and international development. I also design interactive museum exhibits and write a regular column for Educational Technology magazine.
  • Teaching:
    • I give workshops and seminars on museums and technology, on usability and mobile technologies.
  • Research Projects:
    • Current projects include VeSeL, and e-Science Usability.
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • My research interests include museums, technology, science, art and physical computing.
  • Professional Activities:
    • I have previously been Senior Software Designer at the American Museum of Natural History, and continue to design and research technology for museums worldwide.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • Bradburne, J., K. Walker, L. Tallon, B. Vianna, I. Froes. (2009) Mobile and Global: Museum Handheld Technologies From An International Perspective. Session at AAM conference, 2 May 2009.

      Winters, N. and Walker, K. (2009) Village e-Science for Life . Africa Gathering, 25 Apr 2009, London.

      Reynolds, R., C. Speight. and K. Walker. Bridging formal and informal learning using mobile digital museum trails. 3rd WLE Mobile Learning Symposium, 27 Mar 2009, London.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • US, Europe, Africa and Middle East: museums and technology
  • Languages Spoken:
    • Intermediate German, Spanish; basic French, Italian
  • Languages Written:
    • Intermediate German, Spanish; basic French, Italian
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Level 2
    23-29 Emerald Street, WC1N 3QS

Publications

  • Froes, I. and Walker, K. (2011) 'The art of play: Exploring the roles of technology and social play in museums' In K. Beale (Ed.), Museums At Play: Games, Interaction and Learning. Edinburgh: Museums Etc..
  • Reynolds, R., Walker, K. and Speight, C. (2010) 'Web-based museum trails on PDAs for university-level design students: Design and evaluation', Computers & Education
  • Tallon, L. and Walker, K. (2008) Digital Technologies and the Museum Experience: Handheld Guides and Other Media. New York: Alta Mira Press.
  • Smith, H., Ng, K.H., Walker, K., Underwood, J., Heldt, S., Fitzpatrick, G., Luckin, R., Good, J., Wyeth, P. and Benford, S. (2007) 'Reconstructing an Informal Mobile Learning Experience with Multiple Data Streams', Research methods in informal and mobile learning
  • Walker, K. (2006) 'Screens in the museum landscape', Visual Communication Journal 5(1) (June), 189-198.
  • Walker, K. (2006) 'Story structures: Building narrative trails in museums' In G. Dettori, T. Giannetti, A. Paiva and A. Vaz, (eds), Technology-mediated narrative environments for learning. Rotterdam: Sense.
  • Meecham, P., Walker, K., Ollerton, D. and Carnell, E. (2004) 'Hub Museums' Final Report: Evaluating', Research report commissioned by
  • Walker, K. (2001) 'Beware Geeks Bearing Gifts', Curator, the Museum Journal, 45(1) Oct 2002
  • Walker, K. (2001) 'The Museum as "Information"', Spectra, the Journal of the Museum