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“We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koutsouras, P., Martindale, S., & Crabtree, A. “We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market. Presented at 1st International Joint Conference of DiGRA and FDG

In recent years, we have experienced the proliferation of videogames that have, as their main mode of play, the creation of in-game content. Even though existing literature has looked into various characteristics of these games, one of their aspects... Read More about “We don’t sell blocks” exploring Minecraft’s commissioning market.

Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox (2016)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Colley, J., Greenhalgh, C., Mortier, R., & Haddadi, H. (2016). Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 20(6), 947-957. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0939-3

© 2016, The Author(s). This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to design. From this perspective, proposed regulation in Europe and the USA seeks to create a new economic actor—the consumer as perso... Read More about Enabling the new economic actor: data protection, the digital economy, and the Databox.

“Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J. A., Costanza, E., Jewell, M. O., & Ramchurn, S. D. “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home. Presented at CHI 2016: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

This paper presents findings from a co-design project that aims to augment the practices of professional energy advisors with environmental data from sensors deployed in clients’ homes. Premised on prior ethnographic observations we prototyped a sens... Read More about “Just whack it on until it gets hot”: working with IoT data in the home.

Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design (2016)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (in press). Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-016-0911-2

This series of studies make it clear that a wide range of both physical and digital resources are involved in domestic music consumption. The selection of digital resources is particularly evident, and it can be observed that domestic music consumpti... Read More about Searching for music: understanding the discovery, acquisition, processing and organization of music in a domestic setting for design.

“This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tolmie, P., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Colley, J., & Luger, E. (2016, February). “This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW, San Francisco, California, USA

© 2016 ACM. Notions like 'Big Data' and the 'Internet of Things' turn upon anticipated harvesting of personal data through ubiquitous computing and networked sensing systems. It is largely presumed that understandings of people's everyday interaction... Read More about “This has to be the cats” - Personal Data Legibility in Networked Sensing Systems.

A day in the life of things in the home (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Tolmie, P. (2016, February). A day in the life of things in the home. Presented at 19th ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 16), San Francisco, USA

This paper is about human interaction with things in the home. It is of potential relevance to developers of the Internet of Things (IoT), but it is not a technological paper. Rather, it presents a preliminary observational study of a day in a life o... Read More about A day in the life of things in the home.

"I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., Valchovska, S., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Greenhalgh, C. (2015). "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(8), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-015-0890-8

This paper reports on a study of 4CG, a cooperative enterprise located in rural Wales. 4CG operates for the good of the local economy and seeks to diversify its commercial portfolio through the creation of an online shop retailing goods and services... Read More about "I’ve got a sheep with three legs if anybody wants it?’" - re-visioning the rural economy.

Digital records and the Digital Replay System (2015)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tennent, P., Brundell, P., & Knight, D. (2015). Digital records and the Digital Replay System. In P. Halfpenny, & R. Procter (Eds.), Innovations in Digital Research Methods. SAGE Publications

Human data interaction: historical lessons from social studies and CSCW (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Mortier, R. Human data interaction: historical lessons from social studies and CSCW. Presented at 14th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Human Data Interaction (HDI) is an emerging field of research that seeks to support end-users in the day-to-day management of their personal digital data. This is a programmatic paper that seeks to elaborate foundational challenges that face HDI from... Read More about Human data interaction: historical lessons from social studies and CSCW.

The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kwok, S. Y., Skatova, A., Shipp, V., & Crabtree, A. (2015, August). The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras. Presented at 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Adjunct, Copenhagen, Denmark

Self-report methods such as experience sampling provide an important means of understanding individual behaviors. The arrival of wearable camera technologies opens up research opportunities to provoke and explore in-depth contextual self-reflection... Read More about The ethical challenges of experience sampling using wearable cameras.

House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks (2015)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Tolmie, P., Mortier, R., Lodge, T., Brundell, P., & Pantidi, N. (2015). House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 19(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-014-0771-6

We draw on ethnographic studies to understand the collaborative nature of network policies or rules in domestic settings. We outline the technical nature of network policy in enterprise domains and how this contrasts with the social or collaborative... Read More about House rules: the collaborative nature of policy in domestic networks.

Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Greenhalgh, C., Chamberlain, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Valchovska, S., & Crabtree, A. (2014, June). Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices. Presented at International Symposium on Pervasive Displays, Copenhagen, Denmark

A large and growing proportion of the general population in the UK and similar nations routinely carry smart phones and access the Internet while on the go. However, especially in rural areas, mobile Internet access can be intermittent and slow, and... Read More about Displaying locality: connecting with customers and visitors in-situ via their mobile devices.

Making it "pay a bit better": design challenges for micro rural enterprise (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Chamberlain, A. (2014, February). Making it "pay a bit better": design challenges for micro rural enterprise. Presented at CSCW '14: Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

This paper reports on a field study of small market in Wales undertaken as part of broader research project aimed at developing IT solutions to support rural enterprise. The project is predicated on the assumption that the primary challenge facing ru... Read More about Making it "pay a bit better": design challenges for micro rural enterprise.

Doing innovation in the wild (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Reeves, S., Rodden, T., Tolmie, P., & Jones, M. (2013, September). Doing innovation in the wild. Presented at Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI, Trento, Italy

Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’ (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Davies, M., Glover, K., Reeves, S., Tolmie, P., & Jones, M. (2013, July). Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’. Presented at HIMI: International Conference on Human Interface and the Management of Information, Las Vegas, USA

This paper outlines and describes the development of a multi-media data aggregation system called Placebooks. Placebooks was developed as a ubiquitous toolkit aimed at allowing people in rural areas to create and share digital books that contained a... Read More about Placebooks: Participation, Community, Design, and Ubiquitous Data Aggregation ‘In the Wild’.

Cooking for pleasure (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013). Cooking for pleasure. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

Cooking is a mundane feature of everyday life, done by people around the world as a matter of necessity and, for some at least, as the business of pleasure. It seems surprising therefore that food, eating and cooking has, at least until relatively re... Read More about Cooking for pleasure.

A day out in the country (2013)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., & Tolmie, P. (2013). A day out in the country. In P. Tolmie, & M. Rouncefield (Eds.), Ethnomethodology at play

It is now commonplace to make strong distinctions between tourism and visiting practices in city environments and rural environments (see LAgroup and Interarts 2005), with significantly different motivations presumed to pertain to the two kinds of ac... Read More about A day out in the country.

"How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Rouncefield, M. (2013, September). "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation. Presented at ECSCW 2013: Proceedings of the 13th European Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 21-25 September 2013, Paphos, Cyprus, Paphos, Cyprus

The title of this paper comes from comments made by an ‘angry’ ethnographer during a debriefing session. It reflects his frustration with a certain analytic mentality that would have him justify his observations in terms of the number of times he had... Read More about "How many bloody examples do you want?" - fieldwork and generalisation.

Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Colley, J. A., Bedwell, B., Crabtree, A., & Rodden, T. (2013, September). Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring. Presented at 14th IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction-INERACT 2013, Cape Town, South Africa

This paper explores the measurement, apportionment and representation of widespread energy monitoring. We explicate the accountability to users of the data collected by this type of monitoring when it is presented to them as a single daylong picture.... Read More about Exploring reactions to widespread energy monitoring.