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Blaine Alexander Price, (born 1964) is a Senior Lecturer in Computing at The Open University in the United Kingdom.

Price was born in Montreal, Canada. He obtained his BSc in Computing and Information Science from Queen's University in 1988 and his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 1991.

Career
In 1989, Price was a Summer Research Intern in Apple Computer's Human Interface Group. In 1990 he completed his MSc dissertation on automatic animation of concurrent programs and began his PhD research in Software visualization with Ronald Baecker. In 1991 he took a one year assignment in Open University's Human Cognition Research Lab (now the Knowledge Media Institute) and three years later he was appointed to a temporary contract as a Lecturer in Computing in the Faculty of Mathematics. The next year he was made a permanent Lecturer and launched a 4 year program to transform the delivery of Open University materials from paper and surface postal delivery to electronic delivery. He produced the first automatic system for large scale processing of student electronic assignment submission and return.

In 1997 he took a 2 year secondment as Chief Systems Strategist to the Knowledge Media Institute. Upon returning to the re-named Faculty of Mathematics and Computing he resumed his academic role and conducted research in the use of robotics in teaching computing. In 2007 he launched the Open University's first course in Forensic Computing. In 2004 he began conducting research into privacy with a focus on mobile computing and lifelogging in particular. He continues to supervise students and conduct research in this area and is a co-investigator on the EPSRC funded PRiMMA project.

Select publications

 * Price, Blaine A.; Baecker, Ron M. and Small, Ian S. (1992). A Taxonomy of Software Visualization. Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Vol. 4, pp. 211-266.
 * Price, Blaine A.; Adam, Karim and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2005). Keeping ubiquitous computing to yourself: a practical model for user control of privacy. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 63(1-2), pp. 228–253.
 * Mancini, Clara; Rogers, Yvonne; Bandara, Arosha; Coe, Tony; Jedrzejczyk, Lukasz; Joinson, Adam; Price, Blaine A.; Thomas, Keerthi and Nuseibeh, Bashar (2010). Contravision: Exploring users' reactions to futuristic technology. In: Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Human factors in computing systems (CHI2010), 10-15 April 2010, Atlanta Georgia, USA.

Personal
Price lives in Milton Keynes, England with his wife, Linda Price (Senior Lecturer in Educational Technology at The Open University) and two children. He is the nephew of the noted Canadian geologist Raymond A. Price.