Summary
Pippin Barr is an Associate Professor in Montreal with 11 years of experience at the intersection of human-computer interaction, game studies, and interaction design, specializing in usability and playability analysis and testing. He combines rigorous academic research (PhD, MSc) with hands-on experience building interactive systems and teaching across institutions in New Zealand, Europe, and Canada. At Concordia he has progressed from Scholar in Residence to Associate Professor, shaping curricula and research on user experience for playful interfaces. His background includes practical development on multitouch, multiuser surfaces and early web systems, reflecting a rare blend of experimental interface prototyping and formal usability evaluation. Colleagues and students know him for translating playful design ideas into empirically grounded interaction insights.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Victoria University of Wellington