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Professor BORIANA KOLEVA's Outputs (4)

Creating space for facilitated music performance: gesture controlled sound for users with complex disabilities (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Dickens, A., Greenhalgh, C., & Koleva, B. Creating space for facilitated music performance: gesture controlled sound for users with complex disabilities. Presented at Audio Mostly 2017

Musical interactions have the potential to increase emotional well-being, self-confidence and self-motivation. However, the ability to actively participate in creative activities involving music performance has so far been difficult for users with co... Read More about Creating space for facilitated music performance: gesture controlled sound for users with complex disabilities.

Crafting Interactive Decoration (2017)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Koleva, B., Quinn, A., Thorn, E.-C., Glover, K., Preston, W., Hazzard, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Greenhalgh, C., & Mortier, R. (2017). Crafting Interactive Decoration. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 24(4), 1-39. https://doi.org/10.1145/3058552

We explore the crafting of interactive decoration for everyday artefacts. This involves adorning them with decorative patterns that enhance their beauty while triggering digital interactions when scanned with cameras. These are realised using an exis... Read More about Crafting Interactive Decoration.

Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Preston, W., Benford, S., Thorn, E.-C., Koleva, B., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Mortier, R., Quinn, A., Stell, J., & Worboys, M. (2017, June). Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale. Presented at ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS '17)

As locative media and augmented reality spread into the everyday world so it becomes important to create aesthetic visual markers at scale. We explore a designer-centred approach in which skilled designers handcraft seed designs that are automaticall... Read More about Enabling hand-crafted visual markers at scale.

"It's not yet a gift": Understanding digital gifting (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kwon, H., Koleva, B., Schnädelbach, H., & Benford, S. (2017, February). "It's not yet a gift": Understanding digital gifting. Presented at 20th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2017), Portland, Oregon, USA

A myriad of digital artifacts are routinely exchanged online. While previous studies suggest that these are sometimes considered to be gifts, CSCW has largely overlooked explicit digital gifting where people deliberately choose to give digital media... Read More about "It's not yet a gift": Understanding digital gifting.