Paul Coulton

Paul has a background as a game designer, programmer, hardware designer and laterly a Senior lecturer in Design. He spends much of his time subverting perfectly good technology for his own amusement to create novel games, playful experiences, and toys. His research often encompasses an 'in the wild' evaluation methodology utilising 'app stores' and social networks as an experimental platform. Paul was selected as one of 50 most talented mobile developers worldwide from a community of over 2 million to be a founding Nokia Champion and the first academic invited to speak at the mobile section of the Game Developers Conference.