Outputs (28)

Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality (2024)
Journal Article
Barker, I., Yang, Q., Flintham, M., Ankeny, R., & Ford, R. (2024). Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality. Science Talks, 10, Article 100346. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sctalk.2024.100346

Immersive technologies, such as Virtual Reality (VR), provide a great opportunity to create relevant contexts in consumer studies. However, challenges persist in consuming food and drink during immersion and ensuring effective data collection. This s... Read More about Improving immersive consumption contexts using virtual & mixed reality.

Care-full data, care-less systems: making sense of self-care technologies for mental health with humanistic practitioners in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Spors, V., Flintham, M., Brundell, P., & Murphy, D. (2023). Care-full data, care-less systems: making sense of self-care technologies for mental health with humanistic practitioners in the United Kingdom. Frontiers in Computer Science, 5, Article 1230284. https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomp.2023.1230284

Introduction: The days of dusty couches in therapists' offices behind closed doors are long gone. Now, personalized mood tracking, therapy appointments and breathing exercises are just mere clicks (or taps) away: Technologies for self-care (SCTs) tha... Read More about Care-full data, care-less systems: making sense of self-care technologies for mental health with humanistic practitioners in the United Kingdom.

Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., & Winklhofer, H. (2023, July). Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts. Presented at DIS '23 2023 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, USA

This study focuses on the hybrid gifting model, where both physical and digital objects combine to create a single gift. For this in-the-world study, we turn to nostalgic emotions. We aimed to uncover if hybrid gifting can facilitate nostalgic experi... Read More about Gifting the Past in the Present: An Exploration of Evoking Nostalgia through Hybrid Gifts.

“It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gibson, R., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., Price, D. J., Martindale, S., Chadborn, N. H., Ito-Jaeger, S., Darzentas, D. P., Webb, H., Jacobs, R., Atabey, A., Koleva, B., Flintham, M., Winklhofer, H., Urquhart, L. D., & Perez Vallejos, E. (2023, July). “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories. Presented at DIS '23: Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Pittsburgh, USA

We present the design of the Memory Machine (MeMa), a technology probe that can store, contextualise, and document media to represent memories. We accumulate vast physical and digital possessions throughout our lives, making it difficult to distingui... Read More about “It’s not just for the Past but it’s for the Here and Now”: Gift-Giver Perspectives on the Memory Machine to Gift Digital Memories.

"More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild (2023)
Journal Article
Spence, J., Koleva, B., Benford, S., Darzentas, D., Flintham, M., Glover, K., Wagner, H., Gibson, R., & Thorn, E. C. (2023). "More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 30(4), Article 55. https://doi.org/10.1145/3577015

Gifting is socially and economically important. Studies of gifting physical objects have revealed motivations, values, and the tensions between them, while HCI research has revealed weaknesses of digital gifting and explored possibilities of hybrid g... Read More about "More Than a cliché": Experiencing Hybrid Gifting in the Wild.

Improving simulated consumption context with virtual Reality: A focus on participant experience (2022)
Journal Article
Yang, Q., Nijman, M., Flintham, M., Tennent, P., Hidrio, C., & Ford, R. (2022). Improving simulated consumption context with virtual Reality: A focus on participant experience. Food Quality and Preference, 98, Article 104531. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2022.104531

Context can have a significant impact on liking, emotional response and product choice, and Virtual Reality (VR) is a promising tool to evoke realistic consumption contexts in a controlled testing environment. This study compared an innovative approa... Read More about Improving simulated consumption context with virtual Reality: A focus on participant experience.

Selling Glossy, Easy Futures: A Feminist Exploration of Commercial Mental-Health-focused Self-Care Apps’ Descriptions in the Google Play Store (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Spors, V., Gesine Wagner, H., Flintham, M., Brundell, P., & Murphy, D. (2021, May). Selling Glossy, Easy Futures: A Feminist Exploration of Commercial Mental-Health-focused Self-Care Apps’ Descriptions in the Google Play Store. Presented at CHI '21: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama Japan

Self-care apps ofer a wide variety of diferent therapy paradigms, pedagogies and concepts for people to maintain and make sense of their mental health. However, as human-made artefacts, these apps are being imbued with their designers' interests, opi... Read More about Selling Glossy, Easy Futures: A Feminist Exploration of Commercial Mental-Health-focused Self-Care Apps’ Descriptions in the Google Play Store.

Now Wash Your Hands: Understanding Food Legislation Compliance in a Virtual Reality Kitchen (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flintham, M., Hyde, R., Tennent, P., Meyer-Sahling, J.-H., & Moran, S. (2020, November). Now Wash Your Hands: Understanding Food Legislation Compliance in a Virtual Reality Kitchen. Presented at CHI PLAY '20: Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, Virtual Event, Canada

The Corrupt Kitchen is a room-scale virtual-reality game in which players act as a chef servicing a queue of customers. Tasked with making burgers, players must prepare the food while ensuring it is safe to eat, engaging explicitly and implicitly wit... Read More about Now Wash Your Hands: Understanding Food Legislation Compliance in a Virtual Reality Kitchen.

Modalities of Expression: Capturing Embodied Knowledge in Cooking (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Baurley, S., Petreca, B., Selinas, P., Selby, M., & Flintham, M. (2020, February). Modalities of Expression: Capturing Embodied Knowledge in Cooking. Presented at TEI '20: Fourteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Sydney NSW Australia

When cooking we negotiate between instructions in recipes and personal preferences to make in-the-moment creative decisions. This process represents moments of creativity that utilise and reveal our embodied knowledge. This paper focuses on the captu... Read More about Modalities of Expression: Capturing Embodied Knowledge in Cooking.

The Connected Shower: Studying Intimate Data in Everyday Life (2018)
Journal Article
Kwon, H., Fischer, J. E., Flintham, M., & Colley, J. (2018). The Connected Shower: Studying Intimate Data in Everyday Life. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(4), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3287054

This paper presents the design and field study of the Connected Shower, a bespoke IoT device that captures water flow, temperature, shower-head movement, and shower product weight. We deployed the device in six UK homes for a week to understand the u... Read More about The Connected Shower: Studying Intimate Data in Everyday Life.