Robert is a UX designer at Futurilla and lecturer at Birmingham City University. He is also the Co-director of the Cine Excess Festival and a has focused on digital, online and interactive media for decades. He helped to develop the first cyber café in Birmingham city and was instrumental in making the Custard Factory the first public building in the UK permanently connected to the Internet. He can be found on twitter twitter.com/sharl and his blog at www.futurilla.com