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Professor Andy Crabtree's Outputs (57)

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 Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS ’24), 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. (2024). AI and the iterable epistopics of risk. AI & Society, 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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.