Professor Andy Crabtree's Outputs (74)

H is for Human and How (Not) To Evaluate Qualitative Research in HCI (2025)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A. (2025). H is for Human and How (Not) To Evaluate Qualitative Research in HCI. Human-Computer Interaction, 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2475743

Concern has recently been expressed by HCI researchers as to the inappropriate treatment of qualitative studies through a positivistic mode of evaluation that places emphasis on measurement and metrics. This contrasts with the nature of qualitative r... Read More about H is for Human and How (Not) To Evaluate Qualitative Research in HCI.

Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment (2025)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Sailaja, N., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (in press). Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment. Human-Computer Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2025.2454555

This paper introduces a novel methodological approach for surfacing the acceptability and adoption challenges that confront future and emerging technologies from the perspective of mundane action, in which they will ultimately be embedded and used. T... Read More about Experiencing the future mundane: configuring design fiction as breaching experiment.

Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coulton, P., Stead, M., Pilling, M., Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., & Sailaja, N. (2024, October). Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures. Presented at Mindtrek 2024, Tampere, Finland

While prosocial behaviour is often described as behaviour intended to help and benefit others, it is primarily considered through an anthropocentric lens in that the others in question are principally humans. In this research, we consider designed sy... Read More about Designing Prosocial More-Than-Human Rhetoric within Experiential Futures.

Responsibility and Regulation: Exploring Social Measures of Trust in Medical AI (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGarry, G., Crabtree, A., Chamberlain, A., & Urquhart, L. D. (2024, September). Responsibility and Regulation: Exploring Social Measures of Trust in Medical AI. Presented at TAS '24: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Austin, Texas, USA

This paper explores expert accounts of autonomous systems (AS) development in the medical device domain (MD) involving applications of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and other algorithmic and mathematical modelling techniques. W... Read More about Responsibility and Regulation: Exploring Social Measures of Trust in Medical AI.

AI and the iterable epistopics of risk (2024)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., McGarry, G., & Urquhart, L. (2025). AI and the iterable epistopics of risk. AI & Society, 40, 1425-1438. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-024-02021-y

The risks AI presents to society are broadly understood to be manageable through ‘general calculus’, i.e., general frameworks designed to enable those involved in the development of AI to apprehend and manage risk, such as AI impact assessments, ethi... Read More about AI and the iterable epistopics of risk.

Making of an Adaptive Podcast that Engenders Trust through Data Negotiability (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sailaja, N., Crabtree, A., Lodge, T., Chamberlain, A., Coulton, P., Pilling, M., & Forrester, I. (2024, June). Making of an Adaptive Podcast that Engenders Trust through Data Negotiability. Presented at IMX 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, Stockholm, Sweden

As novel media experiences turn towards audience personal data for enhancement, a range of socio-technical challenges that confront their adoption into the everyday lives of audiences are simultaneously surfaced. Podcasts, being the latest member of... Read More about Making of an Adaptive Podcast that Engenders Trust through Data Negotiability.

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.

Productive Oscillation as a strategy for doing more-than-human design research (2023)
Journal Article
Lindley, J., Benjamin, J. J., Green, D. P., McGarry, G., Pilling, F., Dudek, L., Crabtree, A., & Coulton, P. (in press). Productive Oscillation as a strategy for doing more-than-human design research. Human-Computer Interaction, 40(1-4), 117-142. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2023.2276393

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, Article 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.

Legal Provocations for HCI in the Design and Development of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Urquhart, L. D., McGarry, G., & Crabtree, A. (2022, October). Legal Provocations for HCI in the Design and Development of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Presented at NordiCHI '22: Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference, Aarhus, Denmark

We propose a series of legal provocations emerging from the proposed European Union Artificial Intelligence Act 2021 (AIA) and explore how they open up new possibilities for HCI in the design and development of trustworthy autonomous systems. The AIA... Read More about Legal Provocations for HCI in the Design and Development of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems.

DCMS Response To Call Connected Tech Smart Or Sinister Horizon (2022)
Other
McAuley, D., Crabtree, A., Piskopani, A. M., Chen, J., & Urquhart, L. DCMS Response To Call Connected Tech Smart Or Sinister Horizon

Experiencing mundane AI futures (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Pilling, M., Coulton, P., Lodge, T., Crabtreeb, A., & Chamberlain, A. (2022, June). Experiencing mundane AI futures. Presented at DRS2022, Bilbao, Spain

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
McGarry, G., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., & Greenhalgh, C. (2021, September). The Meaning in "the Mix": Using Ethnography to Inform the Design of Intelligent Tools in the Context of Music Production. Presented at Audio Mostly 2021, Trento University, Italy

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Nilsson, T., Fischer, J. E., Crabtree, A., Goulden, M., Spence, J., & Costanza, E. (2020, July). Visions, Values, and Videos: Revisiting Envisionings in Service of UbiComp Design for the Home. Presented at DIS '20: Designing Interactive Systems Conference 2020, Eindhoven Netherlands

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), Article 4380. 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). 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’.

“Research in the Wild”: Approaches to Understanding the Unremarkable as a Resource for Design (2019)
Book Chapter
Crabtree, A., Tolmie, P., & Chamberlain, A. (2019). “Research in the Wild”: Approaches to Understanding the Unremarkable as a Resource for Design. In A. Chamberlain, & A. Crabtree (Eds.), Into the Wild: Beyond the Design Research Lab (31-53). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18020-1_3

This chapter outlines some key approaches towards understanding the unremarkable. It focuses first on a sociological orientation to the everyday world as key to the enterprise, and then on a variety of complimentary approaches for elaborating or surf... Read More about “Research in the Wild”: Approaches to Understanding the Unremarkable as a Resource for Design.