Trevor Barr
User Environment Program Manager School of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Swinburne University
tbarr@swin.edu.au
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Professor Barr has long highlighted the need for more research into the human factors associated with new Internet technologies. His books have been standard references in university media and telecommunications courses for many years and influential in policy formulation. His most recent book is new media.com/ The changing face of Australia's media and telecommunications, published by Allen and Unwin in 2000.

Trevor has been employed as a senior adviser or consultant by a number of government and industry bodies, including the Commission for the Future, Telstra, and Ericsson Australia. He was the inaugural Director of the Australian Electronics Development Centre, an initiative of the Commonwealth and Victorian governments to develop small and medium sized companies in information based industries. He is a regular national media commentator and has spoken at international conferences in Tokyo, Bangkok, Glasgow, Seoul, Beijing, New York and London.