Nick Dalton
Reader at Space Syntax Limited
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolNick Dalton is a Reader and HCI researcher with nine years of focused academic and industry experience in interaction design, spatial and tabletop interfaces, and visualization. He combines deep technical fluency—spanning Java, Processing, Python, Objective-C, Arduino and OpenGL—with a long history of founding courses and companies, including creating the first MSc in Virtual Environments at the Bartlett and running visualization firm Ovinity. At Northumbria and previously the Open University and UCL he supervises PhD students, teaches interaction programming, and develops analytical methods and frameworks for co-present group interactions. His work bridges research and practice, advising industry (Space Syntax) and building bespoke systems for architecture and transport domains. Known for translating architectural and spatial problems into interactive software, he brings a rare blend of design sensibility, systems-level engineering and pedagogy. Based in Newcastle upon Tyne, he is a lean usability consultant who still codes prototypes end-to-end.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSC, Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology, BSC, Engineering Design and Appropriate Technology at University of WarwickUniversity College LondonGithub contributions (5)
sheepdalton/BFL
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
sheepdalton/sheepdalton.github.io
Jul 2024 - Apr 2026
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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