Outputs (8)

Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Houghton, R., Zhai, X., Li, Z., & Large, D. (2025, April). Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education. Presented at Ergonomics & Human Factors 2025, Burton upon Trent, UK

Findings from an online study and focus groups show that students and staff were receptive to AI decision-making in higher education, highlighting transparency and equitability. Even so, students expressed a desire for creative work to be seen by a ‘... Read More about Human-AI Decision-Making in Higher Education.

Exploring the Relationship between Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation in Online Citizen Science (2024)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Spence, A., Lintott, C., Miller, G., Sprinks, J., Blickhan, S., & Houghton, R. (2025). Exploring the Relationship between Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation in Online Citizen Science. ACM Transactions on Social Computing, 8(1-2), 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1145/3702210

Understanding engagement with and motivations to contribute to online citizen science projects can improve user experience and aid in attracting and retaining users. This article proposes that the fundamental grounding of self-determination theory, b... Read More about Exploring the Relationship between Basic Psychological Needs and Motivation in Online Citizen Science.

Thinking about your future self: Do better perspective-takers make more patient decisions? (2023)
Journal Article
Fletcher, D., Spence, A., & Houghton, R. (2023). Thinking about your future self: Do better perspective-takers make more patient decisions?. Personality and Individual Differences, 212, Article 112281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2023.112281

Decisions involving costs and rewards materialising at different points in time (intertemporal decisions) are prevalent in everyday life and can have significant consequences for well-being across the lifespan. Recent neuroimaging research points to... Read More about Thinking about your future self: Do better perspective-takers make more patient decisions?.

Understanding factors that influence unintentional insider threat: a framework to counteract unintentional risks (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, N., Houghton, R., & Sharples, S. (2022). Understanding factors that influence unintentional insider threat: a framework to counteract unintentional risks. Cognition, Technology and Work, 24, 393-421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-021-00690-z

The exploitation of so-called insiders is increasingly recognised as a common vector for cyberattacks. Emerging work in this area has considered the phenomenon from various perspectives including the technological, the psychological and the sociotech... Read More about Understanding factors that influence unintentional insider threat: a framework to counteract unintentional risks.

A sociotechnical system approach to virtual citizen science: an application of BS ISO 27500:2016 (2019)
Journal Article
Houghton, R., Sprinks, J., Wardlaw, J., Bamford, S., & Marsh, S. (2019). A sociotechnical system approach to virtual citizen science: an application of BS ISO 27500:2016. JCOM: Journal of Science Communication, 18(01), https://doi.org/10.22323/2.18010201

We discuss the potential application to virtual citizen science of a recent standard (BS ISO 27500:2016 “The human-centred organisation”) which encourages the adoption of a sociotechnical systems perspective across a wide range of businesses, organiz... Read More about A sociotechnical system approach to virtual citizen science: an application of BS ISO 27500:2016.

Human performance and strategies while solving an aircraft routing and sequencing problem: an experimental approach (2018)
Journal Article
Argyle, E. M., Houghton, R. J., Atkin, J., de Maere, G., Moore, T., & Morvan, H. (2018). Human performance and strategies while solving an aircraft routing and sequencing problem: an experimental approach. Cognition, Technology and Work, 20(3), 425–441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-018-0480-4

As airport resources are stretched to meet increasing demand for services, effective use of ground infrastructure is increasingly critical for ensuring operational efficiency. Work in operations research has produced algorithms providing airport towe... Read More about Human performance and strategies while solving an aircraft routing and sequencing problem: an experimental approach.

Span of control in supervision of rail track work (2016)
Journal Article
Houghton, R. J., White, C., Golightly, D., & Wilson, J. R. (2016). Span of control in supervision of rail track work. Cognition, Technology and Work, 18(2), 361-378. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10111-016-0364-4

The supervision of engineering work on the railways has received relatively little examination despite being both safety-critical in its own right and having wider implications for the successful running of the railways. The present paper is concerne... Read More about Span of control in supervision of rail track work.

MarathOn Multiscreen: group television watching and interaction in a viewing ecology (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Anstead, E., Benford, S., & Houghton, R. MarathOn Multiscreen: group television watching and interaction in a viewing ecology. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing

This paper reports and discusses the findings of an exploratory study into collaborative user practice with a multiscreen television application. MarathOn Multiscreen allows users to view, share and curate amateur and professional video footage of a... Read More about MarathOn Multiscreen: group television watching and interaction in a viewing ecology.