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Dr Alastair Weakley is a specialist in creative collaboration and completed his PhD at CCS in 2007. In 2009 with Julien Phalip and Greg Turner he established the Interaction Consortium web development company in Sydney. 

With 11 years' professional experience in product development he returned to University in 2000 to study for a Masters' degree in IT. Since then, as well as completing the PhD in Computing Science ("Internet-based Support for Creative Collaboration"), he has been involved in numerous collaborations with artists resulting in exhibited interactive artworks. Some of these collaborations were also part of his work on the EPSRC-funded COSTART project at Loughborough University of Technology in the UK. He has worked with ACID on the Loupe project, mainly looking at the development of tools to support remote non-deliberate sharing of information, an extension of his PhD thesis. Alastair has published in the areas of HCI, Information Systems, Information Visualisation and Presence. He lives in Sydney with his wife and children.