Steve Benford is Professor of Collaborative Computing in the Mixed Reality Laboratory at Nottingham where he explores novel interaction and communication technologies for rich and dynamic social interaction, focusing on the potential of ubiquitous computing to enhance the creative industries. For more than ten years now this has involved working with artists, ethnographers and scholars from the arts and humanities to create, tour and study a series of mixed reality performances. He is Directing EPSRC’s Doctoral Training Centre in Ubiquitous Computing for the Digital Economy, leading the MRL’s Platform grant in the Widespread Adoption of Ubiquitous Computing, Directing the Creator Digital Economy Cluster, and is also Head of the School of the Computer Science. He received best paper awards at CHI 2005 and CHI 2009, won the 2003 Prix Ars Elctronica for Interactive Art, the 2007 Nokia Mindtrek award for innovative applications of ubiquitous computing, and has received four BAFTA nominations.