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The Challenges of Conducting Transdisciplinary Engineering Research: A Case Study of the Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Lattanzio, S., Goh, Y. M., Houghton, R., & Newnes, L. (2023). The Challenges of Conducting Transdisciplinary Engineering Research: A Case Study of the Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation. In Proceedings of the 30th ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering, Hua Hin Cha Am, Thailand, July 11–14, 2023 (751-760). https://doi.org/10.3233/atde230672

In order to meet growing complexity in societal and industrial requirements for engineering projects, there is a growing need for research projects that transcend traditional single discipline silos. Widespread experience and a growing academic liter... Read More about The Challenges of Conducting Transdisciplinary Engineering Research: A Case Study of the Made Smarter Innovation: Centre for People-Led Digitalisation.

The Need for a Symbiotic Interface for a Digital Twin (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Palmer, C., Goh, Y. M., Hubbard, E., Grant, R., & Houghton, R. (2023). The Need for a Symbiotic Interface for a Digital Twin. In Leveraging transdisciplinary engineering in a changing and connected world : proceedings of the 30th ISTE international conference on transdisciplinary engineering (873 - 882). https://doi.org/10.3233/ATDE230685

Human interaction with a Digital Twin is an emerging concept for which there are no common definitions. This paper considers the various types of human interaction with Digital Twins. There is very little research considering human cognitive interact... Read More about The Need for a Symbiotic Interface for a Digital Twin.

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.

Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Sharafkhani, M., Argyle, E., Cobb, S., Tennent, P., & Houghton, R. (2019). Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort. In Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Comfort ICC2019

Aircraft passengers’ physical activity levels are often limited during flight for extended periods of time, which can have serious impact on health, comfort, and passenger experience. Passengers are generally advised to walk around the plane and do c... Read More about Identifying Aircraft Passenger Postures and Factors Influencing Body Part Discomfort.

Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance (2019)
Journal Article
Sprinks, J., Houghton, R., Bamford, S., & Morley, J. G. (2019). Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54(6), 1325-1346. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13277

Virtual citizen science platforms allow nonscientists to take part in scientific research across a range of disciplines, including planetary science. What is required of the volunteer can vary considerably in terms of task type, variety, judgment req... Read More about Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance.

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 factors in exclusive and shared use in the UK transport system (2019)
Report
Golightly, D., Houghton, R., HUGHES, N., & Sharples, S. (2019). Human factors in exclusive and shared use in the UK transport system. Foresight, Government Office for Science

Transport sharing describes a growing set of practices, systems and services that sit between traditional notions of private and public transport provision, and may have benefits in terms of both improving mobility in society and helping to address e... Read More about Human factors in exclusive and shared use in the UK transport system.

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.

Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification (2017)
Journal Article
Wardlaw, J., Sprinks, J., Houghton, R., Muller, J., Sidiropoulos, P., Bamford, S., & Marsh, S. (in press). Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification. International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2017.05.014

Change detection in satellite images is a key concern of the Earth Observation field for environmental and climate change monitoring. Satellite images also provide important clues to both the past and present surface conditions of other planets, whic... Read More about Comparing experts and novices in Martian surface feature change detection and identification.

Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science (2017)
Journal Article
Sprinks, J., Wardlaw, J., Houghton, R., Bamford, S., & Morley, J. (2017). Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 104, 50-63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhcs.2017.03.003

© 2017 The Authors Virtual citizen science platforms allow non-scientists to take part in scientific research across a range of disciplines. What they ask of volunteers varies considerably in terms of task type, variety, user judgement required and u... Read More about Task Workflow Design and its impact on performance and volunteers' subjective preference in Virtual Citizen Science.

EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK (2016)
Journal Article
Jan-Peter, M., Yu, T., Panagiotis, S., Klaus, G., Konrad, W., Lida, F., …Bamford, S. (2016). EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK. The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, XLI-B4, 453-458. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xli-b4-453-2016

Understanding planetary atmosphere-surface exchange and extra-terrestrial-surface formation processes within our Solar System is one of the fundamental goals of planetary science research. There has been a revolution in planetary surface observations... Read More about EU-FP7-iMARS: ANALYSIS OF MARS MULTI-RESOLUTION IMAGES USING AUTO-COREGISTRATION, DATA MINING AND CROWD SOURCE TECHNIQUES: PROCESSED RESULTS – A FIRST LOOK.

How relevant is copyright to online artists? A qualitative study of understandings, coping strategies, and possible solutions (2016)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Houghton, R. J., & Mortier, R. (2016). How relevant is copyright to online artists? A qualitative study of understandings, coping strategies, and possible solutions. First Monday, 21(5), https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v21i5.6107

Online copyright law is a major issue for many in the creative industries. Independent artists often rely on sharing their work across social media and content-sharing sites, leaving them open to having their work stolen or misused. This paper discus... Read More about How relevant is copyright to online artists? A qualitative study of understandings, coping strategies, and possible solutions.

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)
Conference Proceeding
Anstead, E., Benford, S., & Houghton, R. (2016). MarathOn Multiscreen: group television watching and interaction in a viewing ecology.

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.

Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Dowthwaite, L., Houghton, R., & Mortier, R. (2015). Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share. In Contemporary Ergonomics and Human Factors 2015 (355-362). https://doi.org/10.1201/b18293

Online social networks are complex systems that are traditionally discussed in several different ways, often revolving around either the technology and design of the platforms themselves, or the behaviour and social interactions of the communities th... Read More about Fame or function? How webcomic artists choose where to share.

Tailored scenarios: a low-cost online method to elicit perceptions on designs using real relationships (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Coughlan, T., Brown, M., Lawson, G., Mortier, R., Houghton, R., & Goulden, M. (2013). Tailored scenarios: a low-cost online method to elicit perceptions on designs using real relationships.

This paper describes the on-going development of a method to elicit perceptions of design ideas for social technologies, through automatically tailoring scenarios presented in online surveys using information gathered from respondents. The work has b... Read More about Tailored scenarios: a low-cost online method to elicit perceptions on designs using real relationships.

Intergenerational interpretation of the Internet of Things
Book
Brown, M., Coughlan, T., Lawson, G., Mortier, R., Houghton, R., & Goulden, M. Intergenerational interpretation of the Internet of Things. Horizon Digital Economy Reseearch Institute. Manuscript submitted for publication

This report investigates how different generations within a household interpret individual members’ data generated by the Internet of Things (IoT). Adopting a mixed methods approach, we are interested in interpretations of the IoT by teenagers, thei... Read More about Intergenerational interpretation of the Internet of Things.