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Professor Andy Crabtree's Outputs (74)

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. Routledge

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.

"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.

Issues and understandings for rural HCI systems development: Agile approaches "In the wild" (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Davies, M., Chamberlain, A., & Crabtree, A. (2013, July). Issues and understandings for rural HCI systems development: Agile approaches "In the wild". Presented at HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA

HCI system design has largely been focused towards urban areas, the technology and the infrastructure of such environments. Researchers are often unaware of the local, real-word context and the restraints that this can have upon the both the interact... Read More about Issues and understandings for rural HCI systems development: Agile approaches "In the wild".

Performance-Led Research in the Wild (2013)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Row Farr, J., Greenhalgh, C., Crabtree, A., Flintham, M., Walker, B., Marshall, J., Koleva, B., Rennick Egglestone, S., & Giannachi, G. (2013). Performance-Led Research in the Wild. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 20(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1145/2491500.2491502

We explore the approach of performance-led research in the wild in which artists drive the creation of novel performances with the support of HCI researchers that are then deployed and studied at public performance in cultural settings such as galler... Read More about Performance-Led Research in the Wild.

Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development (2012)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Rodden, T., Jones, M., & Rogers, Y. (2012, June). Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development. Presented at DIS Designing Interactive Systems (ACM), Newcastle, UK

We are starting to see a paradigm shift within the field of HCI. We are witnessing researchers leaving the safety and security of their controlled, lab-based environments and moving their research out into ‘the wild’. Their studies are carrying out i... Read More about Research in the wild: understanding 'in the wild' approaches to design and development.

Developing digital records: Early experiences of record and replay (2006)
Journal Article
Crabtree, A., French, A., Greenhalgh, C., Benford, S., Cheverst, K., Fitton, D., Rouncefield, M., & Graham, C. (2006). Developing digital records: Early experiences of record and replay. Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 15(4), 281-319. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-006-9026-z

In this paper we consider the development of 'digital records' to support ethnographic study of interaction and collaboration in ubiquitous computing environments and articulate the core concept of 'record and replay' through two case studies. One fo... Read More about Developing digital records: Early experiences of record and replay.

The spatial character of sensor technology (2006)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reeves, S., Pridmore, T., Crabtree, A., Green, J., Benford, S., & O'Malley, C. The spatial character of sensor technology. Presented at Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)

By considering the spatial character of sensor-based interactive systems, this paper investigates how discussions of seams and seamlessness in ubiquitous computing neglect the complex spatial character that is constructed as a side-effect of deployin... Read More about The spatial character of sensor technology.

Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A., & Chamberlain, A. Making it “pay a bit better”: design challenges for micro rural enterprise. Presented at 17th ACM conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing (CSCW'14)

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.

Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Valchovska, S., Chamberlain, A., Crabtree, A., Greenhalgh, C., Davies, M., Glover, K., & Rodden, T. Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy. Presented at DE 2013: Open Digital

This paper outlines recent developments in the Scaling the Rural Enterprise (SRE) research project – an interdisciplinary project that combines the expertise of social scientists, computer scientists and software developers, in order to inform the de... Read More about Rural Enterprise as an Agent for Technology Development and Facilitation in the Digital Economy.

Human-data interaction
Book Chapter
Mortier, R., Haddadi, H., Henderson, T., McAuley, D., Crowcroft, J., & Crabtree, A. (in press). Human-data interaction. In The encyclopedia of human-computer interaction. Interaction Design Foundation

We have moved from a world where computing is siloed and specialised, to a world where computing is ubiquitous and everyday. In many, if not most, parts of the world, networked computing is now mundane as both foreground (e.g., smartphones, tablets)... Read More about Human-data interaction.

Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Crabtree, A. Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy. Presented at IEEE 2nd Workshop on Legal and Technical Issues in Cloud Computing and Cloud-Supported Internet of Things

This paper offers a sociological perspective on data protection regulation and its relevance to the design of digital technologies that exploit or ‘trade in’ personal data. From this perspective, proposed data protection regulations in Europe and the... Read More about Enabling the new economic actor: personal data regulation and the digital economy.