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Zest: REST over ZeroMQ (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moore, J., Arcia-Moret, A., Yadav, P., Mortier, R., Brown, A., McAuley, D., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., Haddadi, H., & Amar, Y. (2019, March). Zest: REST over ZeroMQ. Presented at 2019 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), Kyoto, Japan

© 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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coulton, P., Lindley, J., Gradinar, A., Colley, J., Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., Forrester, I., & Kerlin, L. (2019, March). Experiencing the Future Mundane. Presented at RTD 2019 Research Through Design, Delft-Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Yadav, P., Moore, J., Li, Q., Mortier, R., Brown, A., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., McAuley, D., Amar, Y., Shamsabadi, A. S., & Haddadi, H. (2018, November). Providing occupancy as a service with databox. Presented at CitiFog'18 1st ACM International Workshop, Shenzhen, China

© 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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lodge, T., Crabtree, A., & Brown, A. (2018, October). IoT App Development: Supporting Data Protection by Design and Default. Presented at UbiComp 2018, Singapore

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.

Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lodge, T., Brown, A., & Crabtree, A. (2018, September). Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge. Presented at ESORICS International Workshop on Data Privacy Management, Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, Barcelona, Spain

We present an overview of the Databox application devel- opment environment or SDK as a means of enabling trusted IoT app development at the network edge. The Databox platform is a dedicated domestic platform that stores IoT, mobile and cloud data an... Read More about Developing GDPR Compliant Apps For The Edge.

Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., McAuley, D., & Stenton, P. (2018, June). Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data. Presented at ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for Television and Online Video, Seoul, Republic of Korea

The turn towards personal data to drive novel media experiences has resulted in a shift in the priorities and challenges associated with media creation and dissemination. This paper takes up the challenge of explicating this novel and dynamic scenari... Read More about Explicating the challenges of providing novel media experiences driven by user personal data.

Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colley, J. A., & Crabtree, A. (2018, March). Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox. Presented at Living in the Internet of Things: Cybersecurity of the IoT - 2018, London, UK

All rights reserved. In this paper, we report on the potential for the Internet of Things (IoT) to drive new immersive media experiences. We introduce Object Based Media (OBM) and the Databox platform as a means of driving this turn to the IoT and ne... Read More about Object Based Media, the IoT and Databox.

“What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home (2018)
Journal Article
Hyland, L., Crabtree, A., Fischer, J. E., Colley, J., & Fuentes, C. (in press). “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-018-9314-4

This paper examines ‘the routine shop’ as part of a project that is exploring automation and autonomy in the Internet of Things. In particular we explicate the ‘work’ involved in anticipating need using an ethnomethodological analysis that makes visi... Read More about “What do you want for dinner?”: need anticipation and the design of proactive technologies for the home.

Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Verame, J. K. M., Costanza, E., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Ramchurn, S. D., Rodden, T., & Jennings, N. R. (2018, April). Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation. Presented at CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal QC Canada

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to enable applications that foster a more efficient, sustainable, and healthy way of life. If end-users are to take full advantage of these developments we foresee the need for future IoT systems and services to... Read More about Learning from the Veg Box: Designing Unpredictability in Agency Delegation.

Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model (2018)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., Glover, K., Haddadi, H., Amar, Y., Mortier, R., Li, Q., Moore, J., Wang, L., Yadav, P., Zhao, J., Brown, A., Urquhart, L., & McAuley, D. (2018). Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model. Journal of Reliable Intelligent Environments, 4(1), 39-55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40860-018-0054-5

© 2018, The Author(s). This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and is mandated by the European Union’s general data pro... Read More about Building accountability into the Internet of Things: the IoT Databox model.

The ludic takes work (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koutsouras, P., Martindale, S., & Crabtree, A. (2017, August). The ludic takes work. Presented at The 15th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

Games that revolve around user-generated content have been explored mainly from a ludic perspective, leaving the work practices that are entailed in content production underexplored. What we argue in this paper is that there is an underlying economy... Read More about The ludic takes work.

The practical politics of sharing personal data (2017)
Journal Article
Tolmie, P., & Crabtree, A. (in press). The practical politics of sharing personal data. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1071-8

The focus of this paper is upon how people handle the sharing of personal data as an interactional concern. A number of ethnographic studies of domestic environments are drawn upon in order to articulate a range of circumstances under which data may... Read More about The practical politics of sharing personal data.

Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable (2017)
Journal Article
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Colley, J., Rodden, T., & Costanza, E. (2017). Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26(4-6), 597-626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9293-x

© 2017, The Author(s). We present fieldwork findings from the deployment of an interactive sensing system that supports the work of energy advisors who give face-to-face advice to low-income households in the UK. We focus on how the system and the da... Read More about Data Work: How Energy Advisors and Clients Make IoT Data Accountable.

Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., & Mortier, R. Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model. Presented at Sixth IEEE WoWMoM Workshop on the Internet of Things: Smart Objects and Services (IoT-SoS 2017)

This paper outlines the IoT Databox model as a means of making the Internet of Things (IoT) accountable to individuals. Accountability is a key to building consumer trust and mandated in data protection legislation. We briefly outline the ‘external’... Read More about Accountable Internet of things?: outline of the IoT Databox model.

Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world (2017)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Knight, W. (2017). Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 26(4-6), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-017-9276-y

In this paper we examine the notion of privacy as promoted in the digital economy and how it has been taken up as a design challenge in the fields of CSCW, HCI and Ubiquitous Computing. Against these prevalent views we present an ethnomethodological... Read More about Repacking ‘privacy’ for a networked world.

Challenges of using personal data to drive personalised electronic programme guides (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., & Stenton, P. Challenges of using personal data to drive personalised electronic programme guides. Presented at 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Media researchers are adopting personalisation in diverse ways to deliver increasingly context-sensitive and customised media experiences. This paper explores user attitudes towards a personalised Electronic Programme Guide which tailors media recomm... Read More about Challenges of using personal data to drive personalised electronic programme guides.

Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box? (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Mortier, R., Zhao, J., Crowcroft, J., Wang, L., Qi, L., Haddadi, H., Amar, Y., Crabtree, A., Colley, J., Lodge, T., Brown, A., McAuley, D., & Greenhalgh, C. (2016, December). Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?. Presented at ACM Workshop on Cloud-Assisted Networking 2016, Irvine, California, USA

We are all increasingly the subjects of data collection and processing systems that use data generated both about and by us to provide and optimise a wide range of services. Means for others to collect and process data that concerns each of us – ofte... Read More about Personal data management with the Databox: What’s inside the box?.