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Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2) in frail or older people with type 2 diabetes and heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis (2024)
Journal Article
Aldafas, R., Crabtree, T., Alkharaiji, M., Vinogradova, Y., & Idris, I. (2024). Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2) in frail or older people with type 2 diabetes and heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Age and Ageing, 53(1), Article afad254. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afad254

Objective: Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2Is) reduce cardio-metabolic and renal outcomes in patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) but their efficacy and safety in older or frail individuals remains unclear. Methods: We searched PubMed,... Read More about Sodium-glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2) in frail or older people with type 2 diabetes and heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Towards a master narrative for trust in autonomous systems: Trust as a distributed concern (2022)
Journal Article
Lindley, J., Green, D. P., McGarry, G., Pilling, F., Coulton, P., & Crabtree, A. (2023). Towards a master narrative for trust in autonomous systems: Trust as a distributed concern. Journal of Responsible Technology, 13, 100057. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100057

In this paper we present findings of research into Trust, specifically within the context of Autonomous Systems. The research is based upon an exploratory workshop attended by domain experts from academia and industry. The aim of t... Read More about Towards a master narrative for trust in autonomous systems: Trust as a distributed concern.

Experiencing mundane AI futures (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Pilling, M., Coulton, P., Lodge, T., Crabtreeb, A., & Chamberlain, A. (2022). Experiencing mundane AI futures. . https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2022.283

Whilst popular visions of Artificial Intelligence (AI) are often presented through the lens of sentient machines, our lived experience of AI is more mundane and exemplified by so-called ‘smart’ products and services. Whilst this mundane reality is of... Read More about Experiencing mundane AI futures.

The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home (2021)
Journal Article
Kilic, D., Crabtree, A., McGarry, G., & Goulden, M. (2022). The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 26(1), 155-176. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01655-9

The home is a site marked by the increasing collection and use of personal data, whether online or from connected devices. This trend is accompanied by new data protection regulation and the development of privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) that s... Read More about The cardboard box study: understanding collaborative data management in the connected home.

The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production (2021)
Conference Proceeding
McGarry, G., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2021). The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production. In AM '21: Audio Mostly 2021 (40-47). https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478406

In this paper we report on two ethnographic studies of professional music producers at work in their respective studio settings, to underpin the design of intelligent tools and platforms in this domain. The studies are part of a body of work that exp... Read More about The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production.

Placing AI in the Creative Industries: The Case for Intelligent Music Production (2021)
Book Chapter
McGarry, G., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2021). Placing AI in the Creative Industries: The Case for Intelligent Music Production. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78635-9_72

The digital transformation of the recording industry is one of the most well-known in recent times, with the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) making new methods of music production available to amateurs and professionals in almost any setting beyond t... Read More about Placing AI in the Creative Industries: The Case for Intelligent Music Production.

Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Nilsson, T., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Goulden, M., Spence, J., & Costanza, E. (2020). Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home. In DIS '20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (827–839). https://doi.org/10.1145/3357236.3395476

UbiComp has been envisioned to bring about a future dominated by calm computing technologies making our everyday lives ever more convenient. Yet the same vision has also attracted criticism for encouraging a solitary and passive lifestyle. The aim of... Read More about Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home.

Privacy Engineering for Domestic IoT: Enabling Due Diligence (2019)
Journal Article
Lodge, T., & Crabtree, A. (2019). Privacy Engineering for Domestic IoT: Enabling Due Diligence. Sensors, 19(20), https://doi.org/10.3390/s19204380

The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has recently come into effect and insofar as IoT applications touch EU citizens or their data, developers are obliged to exercise due diligence and ensure they undertake Data Protection by Design and... Read More about Privacy Engineering for Domestic IoT: Enabling Due Diligence.

Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower (2019)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Hyland, L., Colley, J., Flintham, M., Fischer, J. E., & Kwon, H. (2020). Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 24, 595–611. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-019-01303-3

This paper presents findings from the deployment of a technology probe-the connected shower-and implications for the development of 'living services' or autonomous context-aware consumer-oriented IoT services that exploit sensing to gain consumer 'in... Read More about Probing IoT-based consumer services: 'insights' from the connected shower.

Research ‘In the Wild’ (2019)
Book Chapter
Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (2020). Research ‘In the Wild’. In A. Chamberlain, & A. Crabtree (Eds.), Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab (1-6). Cham: Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18020-1_1

Over recent years the term `in the wild' has increasingly appeared in publications within the field of Human Computer Interaction (HCI). The phrase has become synonymous with a range of approaches that focus upon carrying out research-based studies r... Read More about Research ‘In the Wild’.

The Living Room of the Future (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Sailaja, N., Colley, J., Crabtree, A., Gradinar, A., Coulton, P., Forrester, I., …Stenton, P. (2019). The Living Room of the Future. In TVX '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video (95-107). https://doi.org/10.1145/3317697.3323360

Emergent media services are turning towards the use of audience data to deliver more personalised and immersive experiences. We present the Living Room of The Future (LRoTF), an embodied design fiction built to both showcase future adaptive physicall... Read More about The Living Room of the Future.

Zest: REST over ZeroMQ (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Moore, J., Arcia-Moret, A., Yadav, P., Mortier, R., Brown, A., McAuley, D., …Amar, Y. (2019). Zest: REST over ZeroMQ. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops) (1015-1019). https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2019.8730686

© 2019 IEEE. In this paper we introduce, Zest (REST over ZeroMQ), a middleware technology in support of an Internet of Things (IoT). Our work is influenced by the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) but emphasises systems that can support fine-gr... Read More about Zest: REST over ZeroMQ.

Breaching the Future: Understanding Human Challenges of Autonomous Systems for the Home (2019)
Journal Article
Nilsson, T., Crabtree, A., Fischer, J., & Koleva, B. (2019). Breaching the Future: Understanding Human Challenges of Autonomous Systems for the Home. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 23(2), 287–307. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-019-01210-7

The domestic environment is a key area for the design and deployment of autonomous systems. Yet research indicates their adoption is already being hampered by a variety of critical issues including trust, privacy and security. This paper explores how... Read More about Breaching the Future: Understanding Human Challenges of Autonomous Systems for the Home.

Experiencing the Future Mundane (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Coulton, P., Lindley, J., Gradinar, A., Colley, J., Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., …Kerlin, L. (2019). Experiencing the Future Mundane. In Method & Critique : Frictions and Shifts in RTD : RTD 2019 Research Through Design Conference

Through the design, development and implementation of the Living Room of the Future (LRoTF), we build upon existing work to progress two strands of research. The first explores how media broadcasters may utilise Object-Based Media (OBM) to provide mo... Read More about Experiencing the Future Mundane.

Demonstrably doing accountability in the internet of things (2018)
Journal Article
Urquhart, L., Lodge, T., & Crabtree, A. (2018). Demonstrably doing accountability in the internet of things. International Journal of Law and Information Technology, 27(1), 1-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlit/eay015

This article explores the importance of accountability to data protection (DP), and how it can be built into the Internet of Things (IoT). The need to build accountability into the IoT is motivated by the opaque nature of distributed data flows, inad... Read More about Demonstrably doing accountability in the internet of things.

Providing occupancy as a service with databox (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Yadav, P., Moore, J., Li, Q., Mortier, R., Brown, A., Crabtree, A., …Haddadi, H. (2018). Providing occupancy as a service with databox. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM International Workshop on Smart Cities and Fog Computing (29-34). https://doi.org/10.1145/3277893.3277894

© 2018 Association for Computing Machinery. Occupancy modelling for efficient energy management of indoor spaces has gained significant recent attention. Unfortunately, many such models rely on copying sensor data to the cloud for third-party service... Read More about Providing occupancy as a service with databox.

IoT App Development: Supporting Data Protection by Design and Default (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Lodge, T., Crabtree, A., & Brown, A. (2018). IoT App Development: Supporting Data Protection by Design and Default. In UbiComp '18: Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Joint Conference and 2018 International Symposium on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Wearable Computers, 901-910. doi:10.1145/3267305.3274151

In the domestic IoT domain, data is often collected by phys- ical sensors and actuators embedded in the household and used to provide contextually relevant services to end users. Given that this data is often personal, the EU’s General Data Protectio... Read More about IoT App Development: Supporting Data Protection by Design and Default.