Staff profile
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Job title: Senior Lecturer
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Dept: Computing
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Tel: 01227 782972
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Campus: Canterbury
General Information
Dr Bennett's main interests in Computing are in Usability and Accessibility. His early research work was in the field of accessibility of information to blind people using computer generated sound and speech. He now has broader interests in the field such as usability of computer forensic software and runs the Usability Laboratory at CCCU, where SMEs and other organisations can obtain usability reviews and services. Usability Reviews have been performed for a number of organisations.
His teaching interests lie in the fields of Usability, Cryptology and Programming. He teaches at all Undergraduate levels and to Foundation Degree students in their first year of study. In the first year he teaches Introductory Web Development and Programming. In second year he teaches Interaction Design, Object-Oriented Programming and part of the Web Programming module. The third years students receive Human-Computer Interaction and Cryptography modules from him.
Dr Bennett is the first year tutor for the Department of Computing and arranges the induction week for these students.
He is also on the Faculty Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee, chairs the departmental Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee, and sits on the Faculty Research Ethics Committee.
Dr Bennett previously worked for commercial software development companies and has programmed on Windows and UNIX platforms. He has also developed custom web sites for commercial organisations using PHP server side programming and CSS.
Publications.
A number of recent Usability and Accessibility reviews have been written for local and UK-based organisations.
"A cognitive walkthrough of Autopsy Forensic Browser", David J. Bennett and Paul Stephens Information Management & Computer Security 2009 17(1) (pages 20 – 29).
Is Property Theft in Crime Investigation? Using OSS in Cybercrime Education. Submitted with Paul Stephens, CFET 2008, CCCU, September, 2008
Usability Analysis of Autopsy Forensic Browser. With Paul Stephens. This paper has been selected to appear in the Journal of Information Management & Computer Security., HAISA 2008, Plymouth University, July 2008
"Pedagogy of Cryptology Education: A comparison of two groups". David J Bennett and Dave Lewis, CFET 2007, Canterbury Christ Church University, September, 2007
"Effects of Navigation and Position on Task when Presenting Diagrams to Blind People using Sound", Diagrams 2002, Calloway Gardens, GA,USA, April, 2002
"Exploration of Non-seen Diagrams". David J Bennett and Alistair D. N. Edwards, ICAD 98, Glasgow University , November, 1998.
A further set of Usability and Accessibility reviews have been written for local and UK-based organisations.